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Conversations with Tyler · December 17, 2024 · 60m
Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective (Ep. 230)
Tyler Cowen and producer Jeff Holmes look back on 2024's 30 episodes. Most popular, most underrated, and most controversial episodes. Cowen reflects on what makes great conversations and how his interviewing style has evolved.
Canon
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Cowen: his interviewing method deliberately applies the most generous interpretation to every guest — presenting their ideas in the strongest possible form before challenging them. This produces better conversations than adversarial interviewing.
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Cowen: each CWT episode is a biography of a conversation — capturing a unique intellectual encounter that will never be repeated. The archive is a library of intellectual biographies in dialogue form.