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Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between.

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Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together

Mar 25, 2026

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Tyler calls Paul Gillingham’s new book, Mexico: A 500-Year History, the single best introduction to the country's past—and one of the best nonfiction books of 2026. Paul brings both an outsider's eye and ground-level...

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Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy

Mar 18, 2026

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Few living scholars can claim to have shaped how we read Machiavelli as decisively as Harvey Mansfield. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control, argues that Machiavelli didn't just write about politics—he invented...

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Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English

Mar 4, 2026

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Henry Oliver is the preeminent literary critic for non-literary nerds. His Substack, The Common Reader, has thousands of subscribers drawn in by Henry’s conviction that great literature is where ideas "walk and talk amongst the mess of the real world" in a way no...

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