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299
08 November 2025
Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)Pub date: 2025-08-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorous...
49 min
06 November 2025
The Atlantic's Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach Us
Podcast: The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Atlantic's Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach UsPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNick Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic. But he moonlights as a damn good runner.At 44, he ran a marathon in 2 hours and 29 minutes, making him one of the fastest...
1 h 3 min
06 November 2025
How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke | Ep. 68
Podcast: The Human Progress Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke | Ep. 68Pub date: 2025-10-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPeter Boettke joins Marian Tupy to examine the institutional foundations of the modern world. Check out his book, The Historical Path to Liberty and Human...
1 h 12 min
04 November 2025
579. Dissecting Capitalism's Critics From the Industrial Revolution to AI feat. John Cassidy
Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 579. Dissecting Capitalism's Critics From the Industrial Revolution to AI feat. John CassidyPub date: 2025-08-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIt’s not hard to find critics of capitalism in the current moment but this has always been true: as long as we have had...
55 min
04 November 2025
The 2025 Shortlist: Justin Marozzi
Podcast: Baillie Gifford Prize (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The 2025 Shortlist: Justin MarozziPub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe’re back with episode 2 of the Read Smart podcast! In this episode, Prize Executive Director Toby Mundy speaks with author and historian Justin Marozzi, shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie...
15 min
03 November 2025
Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)
Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)Pub date: 2025-10-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationQuantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner speak with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the...
1 h 42 min
02 November 2025
David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-10-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other modern maladies. Our...
1 h 8 min
31 October 2025
The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter Brannen
Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter BrannenPub date: 2025-10-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCarbon dioxide is central to the story of Earth from its beginning more than 4 billion years ago all the way up to the present. Peter...
42 min
31 October 2025
Dan Wang - The US vs China In The 21st Century - [Invest Like the Best, EP.444]
Podcast: Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Dan Wang - The US vs China In The 21st Century - [Invest Like the Best, EP.444]Pub date: 2025-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest today is Dan Wang. Dan is a technology analyst and author who spent six years living in China studying its...
1 h 35 min
30 October 2025
Hannah Ritchie On Climate Honesty, Hope, And The Future. Discussing her book Clearing The Air.
Podcast: Ben Yeoh Chats (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Hannah Ritchie On Climate Honesty, Hope, And The Future. Discussing her book Clearing The Air.Pub date: 2025-10-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHannah Ritchie — one of the most lucid and data-driven voices in climate and sustainability — returns to talk about her new book Clearing...
1 h 15 min