Twenty years ago, before the Freakonomics book tour, Bill McGowan taught Steve Levitt to speak in public. In his new... more

Former professional poker player Annie Duke wrote a book about Steve’s favorite subject: quitting. They talk about why quitting is... more

Psychologist David Yeager thinks the conventional wisdom for how to motivate young people is all wrong. His model for helping... more

She’s a botanist, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and the author of the bestselling "Braiding Sweetgrass." In her... more

Palliative physician B.J. Miller asks: Is there a better way to think about dying? And can death be beautiful?

Historian Tom Holland narrowly escaped a career writing vampire novels to become the co-host of the wildly popular podcast "The... more

John Green returns to the show to talk about tuberculosis — a disease that kills more than a million people... more

Abraham Verghese is a physician and a best-selling author — in that order, he says. He explains the difference between... more

Jens Ludwig has an idea for how to fix America’s gun violence problem — and it starts by rejecting conventional... more

Ellen Wiebe is a physician who helps seriously ill patients end their lives in Canada, where assisted suicide is legal.... more