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14 November 2025
The Age of Hitler, and How We Shall Survive It
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...
27 min
13 November 2025
Graham Robb: The Discovery of Britain
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 book The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History, Graham takes us on a time-travelling bicycle tour of the island's history. They...
39 min
12 November 2025
Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler
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,...
45 min
11 November 2025
A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)
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...
1 h 21 min
10 November 2025
Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)
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...
57 min
09 November 2025
DANIEL GILBERT: predicting happiness
Podcast: Lives Well Lived (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% 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...
1 h 5 min
08 November 2025
Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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...
49 min
06 November 2025
The Atlantic's Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach Us
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...
1 h 3 min
06 November 2025
How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke | Ep. 68
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...
1 h 12 min
04 November 2025
579. Dissecting Capitalism's Critics From the Industrial Revolution to AI feat. John Cassidy
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...
55 min