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01:03:12

The Atlantic's Nick Thompson on What Running Can...

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2025/11/06

Podcast: The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Atlantic's Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach UsPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNick Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic. But he moonlights as a damn good runner.At 44, he ran a marathon in 2 hours and 29 minutes, making him one of the fastest marathoners his age on the planet. He later set an American age group record in the 50K. He has

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01:12:35

How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke |...

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2025/11/06

Podcast: The Human Progress Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke | Ep. 68Pub date: 2025-10-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPeter Boettke joins Marian Tupy to examine the institutional foundations of the modern world. Check out his book, The Historical Path to Liberty and Human Progress.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from HumanProgress.org, which is the

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00:55:30

579. Dissecting Capitalism's Critics From the...

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2025/11/04

Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 579. Dissecting Capitalism's Critics From the Industrial Revolution to AI feat. John CassidyPub date: 2025-08-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIt’s not hard to find critics of capitalism in the current moment but this has always been true: as long as we have had capitalism we have had critics of capitalism. What are the recurring themes of these critiques and

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00:15:51

The 2025 Shortlist: Justin Marozzi

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2025/11/04

Podcast: Baillie Gifford Prize (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The 2025 Shortlist: Justin MarozziPub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe’re back with episode 2 of the Read Smart podcast! In this episode, Prize Executive Director Toby Mundy speaks with author and historian Justin Marozzi, shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for his book Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and

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01:42:44

Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

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2025/11/03

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)Pub date: 2025-10-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationQuantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner speak with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the 20th anniversary of the popular-economics book Dubner co-authored with Steven Levitt. They

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01:08:28

David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism...

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2025/11/02

Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-10-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other modern maladies. Our addiction to sweetness has a long and unsavory history. Over the past five hundred years, sugar

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00:42:33

The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of...

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2025/10/31

Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter BrannenPub date: 2025-10-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCarbon dioxide is central to the story of Earth from its beginning more than 4 billion years ago all the way up to the present. Peter Brannen joins me to discuss his new book - The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything:

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01:15:37

Hannah Ritchie On Climate Honesty, Hope, And The...

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2025/10/30

Podcast: Ben Yeoh Chats (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Hannah Ritchie On Climate Honesty, Hope, And The Future. Discussing her book Clearing The Air.Pub date: 2025-10-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHannah Ritchie — one of the most lucid and data-driven voices in climate and sustainability — returns to talk about her new book Clearing the Air: 50 Questions and Answers about Climate.Ben and Hannah explore why honesty builds

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00:29:40

The 2025 Shortlist: Adam Weymouth

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2025/10/29

Podcast: Baillie Gifford Prize (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The 2025 Shortlist: Adam WeymouthPub date: 2025-10-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIt's the final episode of the Read Smart podcast hearing from our 6 shortlisted authors! In this episode, Prize Executive Director Toby Mundy speaks with Adam Weymouth about Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe, one of the shortlisted works for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize

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01:10:29

BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William...

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2025/10/28

Podcast: C-SPAN Bookshelf (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. PowerPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPhilip Taubman and his brother William have written what the publisher Norton is calling "McNamara at War: A New History." It's a full life biography of former Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara. "It's a portrait of a man at war

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00:46:28

Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant...

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2025/10/27

Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-04-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a distinct,

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01:05:19

Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover...

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2025/10/26

Podcast: Uncommon Knowledge (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover InstitutionPub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis special episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson features our most requested guest: Hoover senior fellow and acclaimed economist and author Dr. Thomas Sowell. But rather than discussing Sowell’s many books, this conversation explores the

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01:14:22

A Question-Asker Becomes a Question-Answerer

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2025/10/25

Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: A Question-Asker Becomes a Question-AnswererPub date: 2025-10-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor the 20th anniversary of Freakonomics, Debbie Millman of Design Matters interviews Stephen Dubner about his upbringing, his writing career, and why it's important to “swing your swing.” Plus: a sneak peek at a new project. SOURCES:Debbie Millman, writer and host of

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00:38:20

Ben Schott: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Languages

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2025/10/24

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ben Schott: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to LanguagesPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week Sam is joined by Ben Schott, who many listeners will remember as the author of Schott's Miscellany, a world conquering gift book that appeared in every stocking for many years. He's back with what promises to be even more world conquering a book called

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00:46:26

America in Korea: a failed occupation?

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2025/10/23

Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: America in Korea: a failed occupation?Pub date: 2025-09-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor three quarters of a century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two very different regimes that are bitterly opposed to each other. But did it have to be this way? In his book, A Fractured Liberation, which has been shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize,

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01:09:23

The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)

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2025/10/22

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)Pub date: 2025-10-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat drives the seeming relentless dynamism of Tokyo? Is there something special about Japanese culture? Joe McReynolds, co-author of Emergent Tokyo, argues that the secret to Tokyo's energy and attractiveness as a place to live and visit comes from policies that allow Tokyo to emerge

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01:49:14

#1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year History

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2025/10/21

Podcast: The Dissenter (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year HistoryPub date: 2025-10-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization******Support the channel******Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenterPayPal: paypal.me/thedissenterPayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuyPayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9lPayPal Subscription 5 Dollars:

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00:46:46

622. Brian Potter, Author of The Origins of Efficiency

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2025/10/20

Podcast: Unleashed - How to Thrive as an Independent Professional (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: 622. Brian Potter, Author of The Origins of EfficiencyPub date: 2025-10-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationShow Notes: Brian Potter, author of The Origins of Efficiency, explains his core model of efficiency, which includes five levers: production method, increasing production rate, lowering input costs, removing steps, and reducing

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00:40:07

Focus: The ASML Way by Marc Hijink

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2025/10/19

Podcast: TaleWind (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Focus: The ASML Way by Marc HijinkPub date: 2025-01-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor decades the most valuable technology company in Europe operated in the shadows. The chips manufactured by its machines, power our smartphones and AI assistants, make our coffee and drive our cars and even guide cruise missiles. In fact, roughly 90% of all chips worldwide are made with

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00:49:53

Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History...

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2025/10/18

Podcast: BooksPodcastEpisode: Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink FloydPub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSyd Barrett was probably not really an acid casualty! Version 1.0.0 Peter Jenner (Floyd’s first manager): “Syd’s behaviour was avant-garde and I thought avant-garde was good. Of course in hindsight, we should have taken a break, but none of us knew what we were doing and we had an album

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