Podcast with Morgan Housel about his book The Art of Spending Money. Argues that Americans are world-class at making money but bad at spending it wisely. Discusses how money, comparison, and human nature shape happiness. @DKThomp @morganhousel

Podcast with Mark Vellend about his book Everything Evolves. Discusses how the science of evolvable systems unifies biology and culture and how evolution gives rise to everything from viruses to nation-states & technology. @PrincetonUPress @NewBooksNetwork

Podcast with Christopher Caldwell about his book The Age of Entitlement. Argues that the 1960s political reforms, intended to make America more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated and paved the way for populism. https://t.co/7QVN5Z5Ibs

Interview with David Lynch about his book The World's Worst Bet. Discusses what went right & wrong with globalization, and what needs to change to preserve the benefits of global integration and to build prosperity for all. @NewBooksEcon https://t.co/EIvquJct6T

Podcast with Phillip Taubman & William Taubman about their book McNamara at War. Presents Robert McNamara as at war with himself, riven by melancholy, guilt, zealous loyalty, and unable to admit his flawed thinking about the Vietnam War. @BookstackCast https://t.co/zsWURT5QXH

Podcast with Steven Pinker about his book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. Discusses how the logic of common knowledge makes sense of financial bubbles, revolutions, diplomacy, social media shaming mobs, & cancel culture. @michaelshermer @sapinker

Podcast with George Owers about his book The Rage of Party. Discusses the emergence of the Whigs and Tories out of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and how they have shaped political life up to the present day. @thinkingclasses @CapelLofft

Podcast with Kim Bowes about her book Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent. Discusses insights about the economic lives of the non-elite Roman majority from new archaeological data. @JavierMejiaC https://t.co/U6meckPCxg

Podcast with Joanna Pocock about her book Greyhound. Discusses insights on travel and America from two Greyhound bus trips she took across America in 2006 and 2023. @spectator @questingvole @joannaofottawa https://t.co/BXDzcTFuPf

Podcast with Dan Snow discussing the life and times of William Marshall, from landless younger son to the greatest knight of his age. Draws from Thomas Ashbridge's The Greatest Knight. @HistoryHit https://t.co/ybK4tcbQDS

Podcast with Robin Waterfield and Polly Low about their new translation of Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War. Discusses Thucydides, his life and times, and why his history has exercised so much influence for so long. @tideshistory https://t.co/2s79KZI03A

Podcast with Toby Stuart about his book Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World. Discusses the influence of social status on consumer behavior, resource allocation, decision-making, and more. @UnsiloedPodcast

I am nailing Nine Theses to the door of @Wikipedia. This has been my project for the last nine months. There has never been a thoroughgoing Wikipedia reform proposal—this is the first. If it doesn't work, we need to organize an alternative. 🧵

Podcast with Peter Hessler about his book Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Compares living and teaching in China 2019-21 with the late 1990s; his experiences of Covid in 2020; and the circumstances in which he left China in 2021. @chinabksreview

Podcast with David Commins about his book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History. Discusses why Wahhabism was essential for Saudi state-building, why the Saudi state emerged from its poorer and least cosmopolitan regions, and more. @cowenconvos https://t.co/59blzu1FYv

Podcast with Mark Pennington about his book Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Dismantles the cliché of Foucault as the Left’s philosopher, exposing how his late work aligns with classical liberalism. @CPSI_org @rasheedguo @Kaleidicworld

Podcast with Claudia Goldin about her essay The Downside of Fertility. Explains that fertility fell as women gained greater agency leaving a mismatch between men and women in their expectations about child-rearing responsibilities. @HooverInst @PikaGoldin

Podcast with John Tolan about his book Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present. Overviews Islam and discusses the Prophet Muhammad, his succession, various caliphates, the Ottoman empire, Wahhabism, Arab nationalism, and more. @xavierbonilla87 https://t.co/aP9gYP2aGR

Podcast with Brian Potter about his essay How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years. Discusses the logistical challenges of ramping up American WWII production and the lessons for today's supply chains and defense readiness. @EconTalker @_brianpotter https://t.co/5IcvorYH5f

Podcast with Sean McMeekin about his book To Overthrow the World. Discusses the rise and fall of communism, how communism spread across the world, the fall of Communist regimes between 1989 and 1991, and how popular it is nowadays. @TheDissenterYT https://t.co/Kb9jtU8ALP