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The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts)

发表于 2024-04-30 applying 2023 roberts

The favorite EconTalk episodes for host Russ Roberts are when he and his guest have an unusually powerful connection such as his recent episode with Charles Duh…

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

发表于 2024-07-16 important speeches schaub

What lessons can we take from the speeches of Abraham Lincoln for today's turbulent times? How did those speeches move the nation in Lincoln's day? Listen as po…

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

发表于 2024-07-30 dangers radical jew

Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris of the podcast Making Sense talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about rising Jew-hatred in the West and what Harris sees as …

Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate

发表于 2024-11-26 greatest 20th tyler

Life and Fate might be the greatest novel of the 20th century or maybe ever. Tyler Cowen talks about this sprawling masterpiece and its author, Vasily Grossman,…

EconTalk #1000 (with Russ Roberts)

发表于 2025-06-03 arguments anymore 000th

In honor of EconTalk's 1,000th episode, host Russ Roberts reflects on his long, strange journey from pioneer of the podcast format to weekly interviewer of lead…

EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)

发表于 2026-07-07 college ido hevroni

Ego, pride, wrath, fear, gods, superheroes, mortals, and lots of killing. Welcome to Homer's Iliad , which reads at times like a script for a Tarantino film or …

Dwayne Betts on the Iliad

发表于 2026-07-21 roberts econtalk achilles

What happens when a poet who survived prison sits down with the world's oldest war story--and reads it in three sleepless, wandering days? In this second episod…