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Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts

Jan 21, 2026

Tyler considers Diarmaid MacCulloch one of those rare historians whose entire body of work rewards reading. This work includes his award-winning Cranmer biography, his sweeping histories of Christianity and the Reformation, and his latest on sex and the church, which demonstrates what MacCulloch calls the...

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Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work

Jan 7, 2026

At 22, Brendan Foody is both the youngest Conversations with Tyler guest ever and the youngest unicorn founder on record. His company Mercor hires the experts who train frontier AI models—from poets grading verse to economists building evaluation frameworks—and has become one of the fastest-growing startups in...

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