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20. John Donohue: “I'm Frequently Called a Treasonous Enemy of the Constitution.”
May 2, 2026
36m 53s
19. Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the Only Result.”
Apr 25, 2026
37m 38s
18. Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.”
Apr 18, 2026
41m 34s
17. Emily Oster: “I Am a Woman Who Is Prominently Discussing Vaginas.”
Apr 11, 2026
41m 32s
16. Joshua Jay: “Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool.”
Apr 4, 2026
42m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/2/26 | 20. John Donohue: “I'm Frequently Called a Treasonous Enemy of the Constitution.”✨ | laweconomics+4 | John Donohue | Freakonomics RadioStitcher | — | John Donohueabortion+4 | — | 36m 53s | |
| 4/25/26 | 19. Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the Only Result.”✨ | business efficiencyfoster care reform+3 | Marina Nitze | Department of Veterans Affairs | — | business efficiency consultantfoster care+3 | — | 37m 38s | |
| 4/18/26 | 18. Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.”✨ | neurosciencestress+3 | Robert Sapolsky | — | Kenyababoons | neurosciencestress+5 | — | 41m 34s | |
| 4/11/26 | 17. Emily Oster: “I Am a Woman Who Is Prominently Discussing Vaginas.”✨ | economicsCovid-19+3 | Emily Oster | Brown University | — | Emily OsterCovid-19+5 | — | 41m 32s | |
| 4/4/26 | 16. Joshua Jay: “Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool.”✨ | magicdeception+3 | Joshua Jay | Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool. | — | magiciantricks+3 | — | 42m 03s | |
| 3/28/26 | 15. Tim Harford: “If You Can Make Sure You're Not An Idiot, You've Done Well.”✨ | statisticsjournalism+3 | Tim Harford | World BankThe Undercover Economist+1 | England | Tim HarfordSteve Levitt+7 | — | 42m 25s | |
| 3/21/26 | 13. Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.” (UPDATE)✨ | personal developmentgame theory+4 | Yul Kwon | GoogleF.B.I. Academy | — | Yul KwonSteve Levitt+6 | — | 43m 23s | |
| 3/14/26 | 12. Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.”✨ | basketballgender pay gap+3 | Sue Bird | ESPN | — | Sue Birdbasketball+5 | — | 39m 25s | |
| 3/7/26 | 11. Paul Romer: “I Figured Out How to Get Myself Fired From the World Bank.”✨ | economicsinnovation+3 | Paul Romer | World Bank | — | Paul RomerSteve Levitt+5 | — | 34m 20s | |
| 2/28/26 | 10. Suzanne Gluck: “I'm a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things”✨ | book industryliterary agents+3 | Suzanne Gluck | Freakonomics | — | literary agentbook publishing+3 | — | 36m 07s | |
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| 2/21/26 | 8. Peter Attia: “I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day”✨ | longevityCovid response+3 | Peter Attia | — | — | longevityCovid response+3 | — | 38m 36s | |
| 2/14/26 |  7. Caverly Morgan: "I Am Not This Voice. I Am Not This Narrative." | She showed up late and confused to her first silent retreat, but Caverly Morgan eventually trained for eight years in silence at a Zen monastery. Now her mindfulness-education program Peace in Schools is part of the high-school curriculum in Portland, Ore. Steve Levitt finds out what daily life is like in a silent monastery, why teens find it easier than adults to learn meditation, and what happy children can teach their parents. This episode originally aired on November 13th, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | 6. Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy” | He graduated high school at 14, and by 23 had several graduate degrees and was a research assistant with Stephen Hawking. He became the first chief technology officer at Microsoft (without having ever studied computer science) and then started a company focused on big questions — like how to provide the world with clean energy and how to optimize pizza-baking. Find out what makes Nathan Myhrvold’s fertile mind tick, and which of his many ideas Steve Levitt likes the most. This episode originally aired on October 30th, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 1/31/26 | 5. Susan Wojcicki: “Hey, Let’s Go Buy YouTube!” | She was the sixteenth employee at Google — a company once based in her garage — and now she's the C.E.O. of its best-known subsidiary, YouTube. But despite being one of the most powerful people in the tech industry, few outside of Silicon Valley know the name Susan Wojcicki. Levitt talks with her about the early days of Google, how her background in economics shapes the company's products, and why YouTube's success has created a range of unforeseen and serious issues. This episode originally aired on October 16th, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 1/24/26 | 4. Ken Jennings: “Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | It was only in his late twenties that America’s favorite brainiac began to seriously embrace his love of trivia. Now he holds the “Greatest of All Time” title on Jeopardy! Steve Levitt digs into how he trained for the show, what it means to have a "geographic memory," and why we lie to our children. This episode originally aired on October 2nd, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 1/17/26 | 3. Kerwin Charles: “One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From” | The dean of Yale’s School of Management grew up in a small village in Guyana. During his unlikely journey, he has researched video-gaming habits, communicable disease, and why so many African-Americans haven’t had the kind of success he’s had. Steve Levitt talks to Charles about his parents’ encouragement, his love of Sports Illustrated, and how he talks to his American-born kids about the complicated history of Blackness in America. This episode originally aired on September 18th, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | 2. Mayim Bialik: “I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is” | She’s best known for playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, but the award-winning actress has a rich life outside of her acting career, as a teacher, mother — and a real-life neuroscientist. Steve Levitt tries to learn more about this one-time academic and Hollywood non-conformist, who is both very similar to him and also quite his opposite. This episode originally aired on September 4th, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 1/3/26 | 1. Steven Pinker: "I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully” | By cataloging the steady march of human progress, the Harvard psychologist and linguist has become a very public intellectual. But the self-declared “polite Canadian” has managed to enrage people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Steve Levitt tries to understand why. This episode originally aired on August 21st, 2020. | — | ||||||
| 12/20/25 | 173. Steve Levitt Says Goodbye to People I (Mostly) Admire | In the last episode of the podcast, Stephen Dubner turns the microphone on Steve Levitt. They talk about Levitt’s favorite — and least favorite — moments from the show’s five-year run, his quest to reform education, and his next podcasting gig. | — | ||||||
| 12/13/25 | Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom (Replay) | The late Robert Solow was a giant among economists. When he was 98 years old he told Steve about cracking German codes in World War II, why it’s so hard to reduce inequality, and how his field lost its way. | — | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | 172. A New Kind of University | Michael Crow is the president of Arizona State University, which U.S. News & World Report has called the most innovative school in the country for 11 years running. He tells Steve about why higher education needs to change, and how A.S.U. is leading the way. Plus: Steve has an announcement about the podcast. | — | ||||||
| 11/22/25 | 171. Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths | Michael Greenstone knows it’s corny, but he wants to make the world a better place — by tracking the impact of air quality, developing pollution markets in India, and … starting a podcast, which Steve says proves he’s over the hill. | — | ||||||
| 11/15/25 | Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms (Replay) | Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with cancer at 22. She made her illness the subject of a New York Times column and a memoir, "Between Two Kingdoms." She and Steve talk about what it means to live with a potentially fatal illness, how to talk to people who've gone through a tragedy, and ways to encourage medical donations. | — | ||||||
| 11/8/25 | 170. Finding the God Particle | Physicist and former pop star Brian Cox tells Steve about discovering the Higgs boson, having a number-one hit, and why particle physics research will almost certainly not create a black hole that destroys all life on earth. | — | ||||||
| 10/25/25 | 169. Decoding the World’s First Writing | Irving Finkel is an expert on cuneiform — the oldest known writing system. He tells Steve the amazing story of how an ancient clay tablet unlocked the truth about Noah’s ark (and got Finkel in trouble with some Christians). | — | ||||||
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