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Conversations with Tyler

Conversations with Tyler

著者： Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 社会科学
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  • Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite

    Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
    2026/08/12
    Daron Acemoglu returns for his second appearance with a new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, which Tyler reads as an attempt to redefine and revitalize liberalism for our times. Where Daron's first visit was about how states and societies contend for the narrow corridor in which liberty survives, this one asks what liberals themselves got wrong, and the answer implicates the educated elite—that is to say, you. Tyler and Daron discuss what's wrong with social contract theories and Rousseau's general will, whether Acemoglu is more objectivist than Rorty, why he blames left liberalism's own establishment power for its collapse, what standard is left once you refuse to have a book of higher values, nondomination versus noninterference, who counts as working class, why automation alone will not lead to widespread prosperity, how he can call himself a free speech absolutist while wanting to regulate social media, why he worries we've given up on educating Americans, whether teachers' unions need to be reconstituted, what the life expectancy for an educated twenty year old is today, whether open-source models undercut the centralization worry, what pro-worker AI actually means, why the fertility crisis leaves him strangely close to a real business cycle position, whether AI will raise his own already prodigious paper output, why Armenia has disappointed economically, what he wants to learn next, and more. Read a transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video on YouTube. Recorded July 15th, 2026. Other ways to connect Follow us on X and InstagramFollow Tyler on XFollow Daron on XSign up for our newsletterJoin our DiscordEmail us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Learn more about Conversations with Tyler and other Mercatus Center podcasts here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:08:57 - On the working class vs. the elite 00:13:16 - On automation 00:22:33 - On free speech 00:27:22 - On immigration 00:31:08 - On artificial intelligence 00:50:36 - On Armenia 00:53:22 - On what comes next 00:54:51 - Outro Image credit: Bryce Vickmark
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    56 分
  • Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy

    Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
    2026/08/05

    Julia Ioffe left the USSR as a child and came back as an adult journalist to find that the confident, credentialed women she remembered from her Soviet childhood had largely been supplanted by those chasing marriage and domesticity instead. That disorienting reversal is the engine of her book Motherland, a National Book Award finalist that reconstructs modern Russian history almost entirely through its women. Her account, drawn from her own family's history as well as the archives, keeps returning to one plain observation: Soviet policy pushed women into the workforce, the medical schools, and even into combat, while asking so little of men that low expectations became self-fulfilling—and Russia is still living with the results.

    Julia joined Tyler to discuss why so many of Russia's great constructivist painters were women, why the tsarist government established women's medical courses in 1872, changing attitudes towards abortion and birth control in the 20th century, why the Soviet regime turned prudish, how Khrushchev's plan to "replace the dead" institutionalized single motherhood, Russian superwomen, why Jewish men were a prized commodity amid rampant antisemitism, the cultural significance of flowers, why a few Russian names still dominate, why Russian women think Western feminists have their priorities backwards, how gender attitudes and autocracy feed into each other, three underrated Russian novels, what she wants to write about next, and more.

    Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video on YouTube.

    Recorded April 7th, 2026.

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    Timestamps:

    00:00:00 - Intro

    00:06:38 - Bolshevik feminism

    00:08:41 - Birth control, abortion, and prudery

    00:14:48 - The Russian mating market

    00:23:06 - Russian superwomen

    00:32:02 - The importance of flowers

    00:37:35 - Common Russian names

    00:39:51 - Russian vs. American feminism

    00:44:23 - Gender attitudes and Russian politics

    00:49:54 - Russian novels

    00:54:33 - Outro

    Photo credit: Max Avdeev
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    55 分
  • Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists

    Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists
    2026/07/22

    Andrew Graham-Dixon's new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, rests on the conviction that you cannot understand what's in a painting without knowing what its maker was thinking about. In Vermeer's case, that context includes a forgotten liberal sect — the Remonstrants and Collegiants, Christians without a church who believed peace would come through reading and toleration rather than a returning Messiah. Recover that world and a woman alone in a sunlit room is a radical image in a Europe where half of Germany had just died in war. If he's right, the label beside every Vermeer in every museum will one day have to change.

    Tyler and Andrew discuss whether it was inevitable we'd rediscover Vermeer, how that vanishingly rare sect left its fingerprints all over his life, why the Met has misread its own Allegory of the Catholic Faith, whether Vermeer painted for money or pointedly refused to, where the Gardner's stolen Concert might be, why Dutch music never blossomed as much as Dutch painting did, how the Church of England rivaled the Cultural Revolution in wiping out British art, whether you can still spot an English painting on sight, the love that saturates late Rembrandt and the mystery of his soaring print prices, the nail on the wall that proves two Vermeer paintings are a pair, why the French are to blame for George Stubbs' lack of status, whether we can still love Malevich, why Andrews calls recent Richter "almost like printing money," why female artists and antique textiles remain absurdly cheap, why nobody builds beautiful neighborhoods any longer, and much more.

    Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video on the new dedicated Conversations with Tyler channel.

    Recorded April 7th, 2026.

    Other ways to connect

    • Follow us on X and Instagram
    • Follow Tyler on X
    • Follow Andrew on X
    • Sign up for our newsletter
    • Join our Discord
    • Email us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu
    • Learn more about Conversations with Tyler and other Mercatus Center podcasts here.

    Timestamps:

    00:00:00 - Intro

    00:00:44 - The Mystery of Vermeer

    00:12:53 - Dutch Music

    00:15:51 - English Art

    00:19:49 - Rembrandt

    00:23:17 - Attributions

    00:26:22 - Exhibitions and Restorations

    00:30:05 - Underrated French Artists

    00:35:16 - Howard Hodgkin

    00:38:00 - Difficult-To-Love Artists

    00:40:53 - Other Dutch Painters

    00:44:20 - Contemporary Art

    00:48:05 - Buying Art

    00:50:39 - Neighborhood Aesthetics

    00:54:39 - Advice for Aspiring Art Critics

    00:56:14 - Outro

    Image Credit: Aliona Adrianova
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    57 分
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