78 Episodes

  1. 53 | What About India? Part II: Success and Stagnation In the World’s Largest Democracy ~ Bishnupriya Gupta

    Published: 2/24/2025

  2. 52 | What About India? Part I: Mughals, British, and the Causes of Poverty ~ Bishnupriya Gupta

    Published: 2/14/2025

  3. 51 | Why Patriarchy? Foragers, Farmers, and the Origins of Gender Inequality ~ Angarika Deb

    Published: 1/28/2025

  4. Bonus | Evolution Beyond the Selfish Gene (with Eva Jablonka)

    Published: 1/16/2025

  5. Bonus | The Real Lessons From The World Happiness Report (with Lara Aknin)

    Published: 1/9/2025

  6. Bonus | Some Myths About Human Mating (with Katie Starkweather)

    Published: 1/5/2025

  7. Encore | The Mindbending Conversation That Topped 2024 (with Donald Hoffman)

    Published: 12/31/2024

  8. Live from London | Yasheng Huang on the Origins of Modern China

    Published: 12/23/2024

  9. 50 | A New Theory on the Broadest Patterns of History ~ Ideen Ali Riahi

    Published: 12/2/2024

  10. 49 | Is War Inevitable? Lessons from East Asia ~ David C. Kang

    Published: 11/15/2024

  11. 48 | Is War Natural After All? Revisiting the Debate ~ Luke Glowacki

    Published: 11/2/2024

  12. Nobel-Prize Special | Daron Acemoglu on Why We Should Celebrate Humanity

    Published: 10/18/2024

  13. 47 | This Might Be The Nicest Thing About Human Nature ~ Lara Aknin

    Published: 10/1/2024

  14. 46 | What About China? Part III: A Brief History of China’s Future ~ Yasheng Huang

    Published: 9/21/2024

  15. 45 | What About China? Part II: Explaining the Chinese Miracle ~ Yasheng Huang

    Published: 9/19/2024

  16. 44 | What About China? Part I: The Deep Currents of Chinese History ~ Yasheng Huang

    Published: 9/2/2024

  17. 43 | Does It Matter Who Brings In The Meat? ~ Katie Starkweather

    Published: 8/1/2024

  18. 42 | Why Agriculture? Climate Change and the Origins of Farming ~ Andrea Matranga

    Published: 7/15/2024

  19. 41 | What Can Moral Dilemmas Tell Us About Ourselves? ~ Peter Railton

    Published: 6/30/2024

  20. The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part IV: Grasping Towards Equality (with Branko Milanovic)    

    Published: 6/18/2024

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