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01:08:47

Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About...

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2025/11/23

Podcast: The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About TodayPub date: 2025-11-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAndrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, is an eye-opening account of the forces that led to the worst financial crisis in history and the lessons that disaster can teach us about

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00:42:58

Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England

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2025/11/21

Podcast: How To Academy Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to EnglandPub date: 2025-11-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn his four Time Travellers Guides to England, historian Ian Mortimer has taken us from the Medieval period all the way to the Regency, revelling not in the business of courts and princes but the minutae of daily life for ordinary men and women. In this podcast,

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01:45:50

#1013 - Scott Galloway - How to Fix a Culture of...

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2025/11/20

Podcast: Modern Wisdom (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: #1013 - Scott Galloway - How to Fix a Culture of Emasculated MenPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationScott Galloway is a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, a public speaker, entrepreneur and an author.Why are so many young men struggling today? In a world that often focuses on the oppression of others, it’s easy to

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00:37:49

Why Q needs U and how hieroglyphics created our...

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2025/11/19

Podcast: Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Why Q needs U and how hieroglyphics created our alphabet, with Danny BatePub date: 2025-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization1125. This week, we talk with linguist and author Danny Bate about his book, "Why Q Needs U." We look at the ancient origins of our alphabet, tracing its conceptual leap from Egyptian hieroglyphs to symbols

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00:47:12

Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis Alvarez

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2025/11/18

Podcast: The Orthogonal BetEpisode: Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis AlvarezPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks again with Alec Nevala-Lee. Arbesman previously hosted Nevala-Lee to discuss his biography of Buckminster Fuller; this time, Nevala-Lee returns to talk about his new book, Collisions, a biography of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez. Alvarez’s career ranged across particle

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00:53:58

Why Some Highly Educated Women Choose to Have Many...

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2025/11/17

Podcast: Economics, AppliedEpisode: Why Some Highly Educated Women Choose to Have Many Children | Steven Davis, Catherine Pakaluk | Hoover InstitutionPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSteven Davis speaks to Catherine Pakaluk, author of an audacious book on highly educated American women who choose to have many children. How do these women explain and understand their choices to have large families? What do their stories say

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01:25:57

What Are The Rules Of Economic Growth? With Joe Studwell

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2025/11/16

Podcast: The Transformation of Value with Cody EllinghamEpisode: What Are The Rules Of Economic Growth? With Joe StudwellPub date: 2025-09-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow does population density effect the economic development of an entire continent? What about agricultural and manufacturing industrial policy? What lessons can we learn from the economic growth of Asia for understanding Africa? Joe Studwell is a journalist and

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01:11:06

Attention and the Possibility of Persuasion

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2025/11/15

Podcast: The New Bazaar (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Attention and the Possibility of PersuasionPub date: 2025-11-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJerusalem Demsas is one of Cardiff’s favorite econ and housing journalists, a previous New Bazaar guest, and now the founder and editor of The Argument, a new magazine dedicated to making “a positive, combative case for liberalism through sharp, well-argued opinion pieces,

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00:27:39

The Age of Hitler, and How We Shall Survive It

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2025/11/14

Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The Age of Hitler, and How We Shall Survive ItPub date: 2025-10-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn online debates, it’s almost inevitable that sooner or later someone invokes Hitler or the Nazis. That tendency, known as Godwin’s Law, has proven itself on social media thousands of times a day. But the persistence of this comparison points to something deeper than

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00:39:43

Graham Robb: The Discovery of Britain

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2025/11/13

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Graham Robb: The Discovery of BritainPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSam Leith's guest this week is Graham Robb. In his new bookThe Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History, Graham takes us on a time-travelling bicycle tour of the island's history. They discuss how Graham weaves together personal memories with geography and history, his 'major

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00:45:59

Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep...

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2025/11/12

Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard ThalerPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationStandard economic theory informs how we think about business strategy and the economy and presumes that people are selfish, have well-defined preferences, and consistently make welfare-maximizing choices. In other words, we are rational. But

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01:21:53

A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David...

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2025/11/11

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)Pub date: 2025-10-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat if math isn't about grinding through equations, but about training your intuition and changing how your brain works? Mathematician and author David Bessis tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts that the secret of mathematics isn't logic--it's the way we learn to see. He

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00:57:57

Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s...

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2025/11/10

Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWas Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines,

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01:05:38

DANIEL GILBERT: predicting happiness

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2025/11/09

Podcast: Lives Well Lived (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: DANIEL GILBERT: predicting happinessPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDaniel Gilbert is an American social psychologist, author, and professor at Harvard University best known for his research on affective forecasting. His bestselling book Stumbling on Happiness (2006) explores why humans are often poor judges of what will make them happy. Daniel

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00:49:03

Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo"...

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)Pub date: 2025-08-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorous start, as a backwater on Japan’s eastern coast before Tokugawa decided to make it his de

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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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