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发表于 2026-03-19 throughline professor sponsorship

Cuba is on the brink of collapse – a scenario that 13 U.S. presidents have tried to engineer with no success. Today on the show, the making of the Cuban crisis …

Prediction markets are making a 150-year comeback

发表于 2026-05-21 throughline professor prediction

Prediction market sites allow users to put money on everything from the war in Iran to the winner of the Super Bowl. But where did these markets come from? And …

How Korean culture went global

发表于 2026-08-20 korea perks professor

This year, K-pop Demon Hunters picked up a couple of Oscars, the pop group BTS made its triumphant return to sold out crowds, and K-pop took center stage at the…

The school report that changed public education

发表于 2026-09-03 perks professor policy

In 1966, the federal government commissioned a massive survey aimed at solving educational inequality. Instead, the explosive Coleman Report unleashed a 60-year…

Is the death penalty cruel and unusual?

发表于 2026-10-15 cruel amendment punishment

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide the amendment's boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors ima…

Interview with Professor Steve Keen - Economist and Author

发表于 2017-11-07 keen interview steve

In this episode I present my interview with Professor Steve Keen, Economist and Author. Date of Recording: Nov 7, 2017. Don't forget to Review, Subscribe and Sh…

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

发表于 2022-10-21 shareholder hbr professor

The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The person who arguably di…

The Innovation Strategy Most Companies Miss

发表于 2026-08-12 strategy professor miss

Companies often build products for wealthy markets first and then try to adapt them for the rest of the world. But according to Dartmouth Tuck professor Vijay G…

Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor

发表于 2017-11-06 rasmussen professor infidel

How did the friendship between David Hume and Adam Smith influence their ideas? Why do their ideas still matter today? Political Scientist Dennis Rasmussen of T…

Bonus Pod- GM Hans Niemann is suing Magnus, Chess.com and Hikaru Nakamura! Law Professor David Franklin joins to Assess What Might Happen From Here

发表于 2022-10-22 niemann hikaru chess

With the bombshell news that GM Hans Niemann is suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura, we brought in a legal expert to help us make sense of the …