1013 Episodes

  1. The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves)

    Published: 9/2/2024

  2. Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)

    Published: 8/26/2024

  3. What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu)

    Published: 8/19/2024

  4. How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard)

    Published: 8/12/2024

  5. The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith)

    Published: 8/5/2024

  6. Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West

    Published: 7/29/2024

  7. Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel)

    Published: 7/22/2024

  8. Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub)

    Published: 7/15/2024

  9. Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin)

    Published: 7/8/2024

  10. Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich)

    Published: 7/1/2024

  11. René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven)

    Published: 6/24/2024

  12. Does Market Failure Justify Government Intervention? (with Michael Munger)

    Published: 6/17/2024

  13. How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin)

    Published: 6/10/2024

  14. Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)

    Published: 6/3/2024

  15. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad)

    Published: 5/27/2024

  16. Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)

    Published: 5/20/2024

  17. Glenn Loury Tells All

    Published: 5/13/2024

  18. Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs)

    Published: 5/6/2024

  19. The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts)

    Published: 4/29/2024

  20. Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom)

    Published: 4/22/2024

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EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 900+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.