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Leon Kass on Human Flourishing, Living Well, and Aristotle

发表于 2021-03-09 well aristotle kass

Leon Kass, long-time teacher of classic works at the University of Chicago and now Dean of Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem, talks about human flourishing…

Emiliana Simon-Thomas on Happiness

发表于 2021-04-13 psychologist berkeley simon

Psychologist Emiliana Simon-Thomas of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the science of happiness--what research…

Agnes Callard on Anger

发表于 2021-05-11 emotion appropriate accept

Philosopher Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about anger. Is anger something we should vilify and strive to erad…

Bret Devereaux on Ancient Greece and Rome

发表于 2021-08-31 greece bret devereaux

Historian Bret Devereaux of the University of North Carolina talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about our understanding of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Dev…

Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical Reform

发表于 2021-09-14 concentration corporate weyl

Author and Microsoft executive Glen Weyl talks about radical reforms of capitalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Weyl is worried about the concentration of c…

Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX

发表于 2022-03-29 colleges uatx pano

What is real education? What can colleges provide their students? Pano Kanelos, president of the new college-to-be in Austin, UATX, talks with EconTalk host Rus…

Tyler Cowen on Reading

发表于 2022-04-19 intellectual habits tyler

Intellectual omnivore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about their reading habits, their favorite books, and the pile …

Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems

发表于 2022-08-09 roberts econtalk munger

Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm can tell us whether we should head there in the first place. To e…

Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries

发表于 2023-05-02 appearance mysteries itzhak

While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried stumbled on the region of the brain that makes us laugh. To n…

A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright)

发表于 2024-02-20 wright lively econtalk

Journalist and author Robert Wright invited EconTalk's Russ Roberts to his podcast, NonZero, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, knowing that there wou…