Scholar and distiller Sonat Birnecker Hart of the Koval Distillery talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her career move... more

Neuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that... more

John Stuart Mill's midlife crisis came at 20 when he realized that if he got what he desired he still... more

To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system of public... more

Philosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism movement talks about his book... more

Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they... more

Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The focus... more

How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to... more

Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm... more

IBM's super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn't nearly as good at diagnosing cancer. This came as no surprise to... more