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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries

Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness in American life through the lens of... more

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On Background: White-Collar Crime and Punishment

Why do people commit white-collar crimes? And how has the way we think about — and prosecute — white-collar criminals... more

14 Mar 2023 · 39 minutes
On Background: Bad Actors on the Blockchain

For his next book, Michael Lewis wants to find out how investigators manage to trace the murky trail of illicit... more

14 Feb 2023 · 36 minutes
On Background from Against the Rules

Michael Lewis's next book is all about Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the crypto-currency exchange FTX, who now faces federal charges.... more

31 Jan 2023 · 2 minutes
Episode 7: The Person Who Knows

The United States had a pandemic plan. But when a pandemic came, we hesitated to follow it. The country was... more

24 May 2022 · 45 minutes
Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game

In which several people, including Rebecca Solnit, Katty Kay, and Maria Konnikova, help Michael understand the not-so-secret power of men... more

17 May 2022 · 33 minutes
Episode 5: The Sanchez Problem

There’s one kind of expert whose role is enshrined in law: that of the expert witness, who’s called on to... more

03 May 2022 · 40 minutes
Episode 4: Respect the Polygon

Experts know more now than ever before. And we’re more critical of them than ever before, too. But one kind... more

19 Apr 2022 · 33 minutes
Episode 3: Field of Ignorance

The right kind of expert, at the right time, can change everything. While working as a security guard at a... more

12 Apr 2022 · 34 minutes
Episode 2: The Art of the Untold Story

Why can’t we see the experts right in front of us, even when they're saving our lives? Maybe it's because... more

05 Apr 2022 · 38 minutes
Episode 1: Six Levels Down

Athenahealth was just another healthcare provider facing the biggest problem US doctors face: not treating patients, but getting insurance companies... more

05 Apr 2022 · 42 minutes
Against the Rules Season 3: The Ballad of Expertise

In “Against the Rules,” journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness—in financial... more

22 Mar 2022 · 2 minutes
Other People’s Money: George Saunders on the Value of Failure

After the surprise success of Liar’s Poker, publishers urged Michael Lewis to try his hand at fiction. It was a... more

08 Mar 2022 · 28 minutes
Other People’s Money: Ira Glass on Finding Your Voice

Michael Lewis did not rest long on his laurels after publishing Liar’s Poker. In the 1990s, he hit the presidential... more

01 Mar 2022 · 26 minutes
Other People’s Money: Anne Clarke Wolff on the Wages of Sexism

Liar’s Poker is set on a Wall Street where women were the last hired and first fired — and that... more

22 Feb 2022 · 28 minutes
Other People’s Money: Dash Riprock and the Human Piranha Revealed

Liar’s Poker describes many of the mentors Michael Lewis had at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. He chose to keep... more

15 Feb 2022 · 29 minutes
Other People’s Money: Jacob Goldstein and the Bonds of Wall Street

For the first time in more than 30 years, Michael Lewis has re-read Liar’s Poker. That experience brought up a... more

08 Feb 2022 · 42 minutes
Introducing Other People's Money: A Liar's Poker Companion

Michael Lewis published his first book, Liar's Poker, in 1989. It’s about his time as a bond salesman on Wall... more

26 Jan 2022 · 3 minutes
Live Interview 5/19/21: Michael Lewis and Geraldine Brooks

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks interviews Michael Lewis about his new book “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.” They also discuss how... more

16 Jun 2021 · 47 minutes
The Premonition

In this special bonus episode of Against the Rules, Michael Lewis reads a chapter from his new book about the... more

04 May 2021 · 34 minutes
Aim Higher

Can everyone be coached — or are some people beyond help?The transformative power of coaching is put to the test... more

16 Jun 2020 · 44 minutes
The Unfair Coach

Back when coaching didn’t do very much, it didn’t matter who got it and who didn’t. But coaching is clearly... more

09 Jun 2020 · 34 minutes
The Data Coach

We explore the quantitative, scientific, and data-driven new frontier of coaching.  Major League baseball is undergoing a coaching revolution from old-school... more

02 Jun 2020 · 36 minutes
The Coach Effect

Colleges today talk a big game about valuing diversity — so why are so many of them failing to retain... more

27 May 2020 · 42 minutes
The Coach in Your Head

Just about anyone today can call themselves a coach. Michael traces this trend back to its source and finds out... more

19 May 2020 · 49 minutes
Don't Be Good – Be Great

Michael revisits his high school days in New Orleans to tell the story of Billy Fitzgerald, the baseball coach who... more

12 May 2020 · 44 minutes
Against the Rules Presents: Michael Lewis in Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg

Michael Lewis interviews the Co-Founders of Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, as part of Dell Technologies Small Business... more

07 May 2020 · 35 minutes
The Invisible Coach

Credit card companies are making billions of dollars off of people who don’t understand the rules of the money game.... more

05 May 2020 · 44 minutes
Introducing Against the Rules Season 2

Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball) takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness. It feels... more

21 Apr 2020 · 2 minutes
Bonus Against the Rules: Help in a Crisis

While working on the next season of Against the Rules coming later this spring, Michael Lewis has had some conversations... more

25 Mar 2020 · 19 minutes
Against the Rules Presents: Cautionary Tales

A new show from Pushkin Industries: Cautionary Tales. We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life... more

15 Nov 2019 · 36 minutes
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Just about anyone today can call themselves a coach. Michael traces this trend back to its source and finds out that the... more