176 Episodes

  1. Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India

    Published: 11/28/2023
  2. Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences

    Published: 11/1/2023
  3. Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets

    Published: 9/19/2023
  4. Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)

    Published: 8/30/2023
  5. Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm

    Published: 8/16/2023
  6. Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution

    Published: 8/1/2023
  7. Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    Published: 7/25/2023
  8. Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey

    Published: 5/9/2023
  9. Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction

    Published: 4/25/2023
  10. Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries

    Published: 4/13/2023
  11. Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen

    Published: 12/31/2022
  12. Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak

    Published: 12/23/2022
  13. Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker

    Published: 12/14/2022
  14. Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch

    Published: 4/24/2022
  15. The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple

    Published: 9/5/2021
  16. The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton

    Published: 8/30/2021
  17. Ergodicity — Ole Peters

    Published: 8/23/2021
  18. #135: The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel

    Published: 6/22/2021
  19. #134: The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison

    Published: 6/14/2021
  20. #133: A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson

    Published: 6/6/2021

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Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals. (Formerly 'The Jolly Swagman Podcast'.)