Conversations with Tyler

Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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Every guest on Conversations with Tyler

269 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Tim Harford

   Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics · Feb 2020

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   Russ Roberts

   Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate · 4 episodes

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   Steven Pinker

   Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment · 2 episodes

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   Carl Zimmer

   Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe · Mar 2025

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   John McWhorter

   John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason) · Mar 2020

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   Luke Burgis

   Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion · Aug 2026

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   Annie Duke

   Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions · Jul 2020

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   Ashley Mears

   Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty · Jun 2020

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   Dave Rubin

   Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live) · Aug 2017

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    Tom Holland

    Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside · Mar 2023

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    Joe Boyd

    Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything · Jan 2025

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    Bob Spitz

    Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography · May 2026

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    Reza Aslan

    Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution · Oct 2022

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    Chuck Klosterman

    Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present · Feb 2022

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    Brian Koppelman

    Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art · Nov 2023

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    Andrew Ross Sorkin

    Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 1929 · Feb 2026

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    John O. Brennan

    John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA · Dec 2020

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    Michael Pollan

    Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics · Aug 2018

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    Reid Hoffman

    Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI · 2 episodes

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    Christopher Kirchhoff

    Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War · Oct 2024

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    Jared Diamond

    Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability · Sep 2026

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    Eric Schmidt

    Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live) · Nov 2018

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    Daniel Kahneman

    Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise · Dec 2018

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    Atul Gawande

    Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small · Jul 2017

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    Jeffrey Sachs

    Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason) · Mar 2015

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    Charles C. Mann

    Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth · Jan 2018

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    Sam Bankman-Fried

    Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism · Mar 2022

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    David Deutsch

    David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them · Jun 2021

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    Austan Goolsbee

    Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog · Jun 2025

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    Dan Wang

    Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other · Dec 2025

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    David Cutler

    David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities · Sep 2021

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    Ezekiel Emanuel

    Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life · May 2019

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    Fareed Zakaria

    Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity · Mar 2024

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    Jennifer Pahlka

    Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government · Apr 2025

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    Joel Mokyr

    Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth · Jul 2026

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    Kyla Scanlon

    Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media · Oct 2024

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    Margalit Fox

    Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism · Aug 2016

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    Mary Roach

    Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason) · Oct 2017

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    Matt Levine

    Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ · Feb 2018

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    Andrew Sullivan

    Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys · Aug 2021

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