Conversations with Tyler: Tyler Cowen with Special Guest David Brooks
Release Date: 09/12/2025
The John Waters Screenplays: A Reading and Conversation with The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman
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Legendary filmmaker and writer John Waters joins us for a reading and conversation spanning the arc of his remarkable career, in celebration of the new reissue of his classic early screenplays, with The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman. From the shocking Pink Flamingos, which established him as a household name and set a new bar for cinematic filth, to Hairspray, the sweetly triumphant story of a dance-crazy teen in 1960s Baltimore — later adapted into a smash hit Tony Award-winning musical — John Waters’ films redefined the art of trash in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and in the...
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Joyce Vance with Preet Bharara: Giving Up Is Unforgivable
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Join former US attorneys Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara for a conversation and special live podcast taping of Stay Tuned with Preet, about history, the law, and what it will take to save our democracy — and Vance’s first book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable. “We’re in this together.” For the past two years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her the chart-topping Substack Civil Discourse with these four words as she’s guided readers through a continued erosion of democratic norms. Now, in Giving Up Is Unforgivable, she reaffirms that we’re in this together...
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Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey: Revenge of the Tipping Point
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Join #1 New York Times-bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell discuss his latest book, ; a fresh look at his breakthrough book, The Tipping Point. In 1996, Malcolm Gladwell published a piece in The New Yorker that became the seed of The Tipping Point. Twenty-five years after the book’s publication, it remains a global phenomenon — blending social science, history, pop culture, and business to look at how a single event can spark a movement, a social phenomenon, or an epidemic. In Revenge of the Tipping Point, Gladwell draws on fresh case studies to rethink...
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Ian McEwan in Conversation with David Remnick: What We Can Know
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The Booker prize-winning author of Atonement and Saturday joins us for the launch of his audacious new novel — a genre-bending, time-traveling tour de force. For decades, Ian McEwan's novels have probed the depths of the human heart, creating unforgettable and utterly relatable characters of extraordinary moral complexity, caught in the crosscurrents of memory, history, and desire. His new novel, What We Can Know, begins at a dinner party in 2014 with the recitation of a love poem among friends and follows to 2119, in the wake of a catastrophic nuclear accident, as a...
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Summer of Our Discontent: Thomas Chatterton Williams with Jonathan Haidt
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The Atlantic’s Thomas Chatterton Williams joins #1 New York Times-bestselling social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (The Anxious Generation) for a searching conversation about the evolution, paradoxes, and taboos of American social justice movements in the years since 2020 — and Williams’ bracing new book, . In this sharp and unsettling work, Thomas Chatterton Williams — among the most incisive social critics of his generation — examines a culture transformed by the upheavals of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the rise of punitive social media. He traces how...
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Trymaine Lee with Nikole Hannah-Jones: A Thousand Ways to Die
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Join Pulitzer Prize winning writers Trymaine Lee and Nikole Hannah-Jones for a conversation about mortality, the weight of journalistic witness, and the enduring power of family in the face of violence — and Lee’s new book, . A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her father why, he had to confront what almost killed him — the weight of being a Black man in America; of bearing witness, as a journalist and in his own family, to relentless racist violence. A Thousand Ways to...
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Universities in the Crosshairs: Larry Summers and Lee Bollinger with Robert Costa
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In a moment when campus culture wars dominate headlines and government is putting enormous pressure on universities to change, two titans of American academia meet for a rare public conversation at 92NY. Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University and former US Treasury Secretary, and Lee C. Bollinger, President Emeritus of Columbia University and one of the nation’s leading First Amendment scholars, take on a question that cuts to the heart of American intellectual life: When the conservative media and federal authorities say that elite universities have been captured by...
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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
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Join the stars and producers of Hulu’s new limited series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox — Knox herself, who is an executive producer; star Grace Van Patten; creator and executive producer KJ Steinberg; and executive producers Monica Lewinsky and Warren Littlefield — for a special conversation.
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Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Scott Ellis with Tracy Smith: Art
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Broadway’s megawatt new season starts here, as award-winning actors Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and director Scott Ellis join CBS Sunday Morning’s Tracy Smith to talk about the upcoming, first-ever Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning Art. The play The New York Times called “a lacerating comedy” centers on the purchase of an abstract white painting by one of three longtime friends – an act that provokes a sharp and witty exploration of friendship and perspective. Hear Cannavale, Corden, Harris and Ellis talk about...
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Conversations with Tyler: Tyler Cowen with Special Guest David Brooks
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Join New York Times columnist David Brooks with renowned economist Tyler Cowen for a conversation about technology, morality, and finding humility in today’s fractious political culture — in a live taping of Cowen’s hit podcast Conversations with Tyler. David Brooks’ explorations of morality in contemporary politics and culture — the cultivation of spiritual and intellectual rigor through compromise and humility — have made him an uncommonly steady voice in an unsteady time. Critiquing the excesses of the right and the left in his bestselling books and New York...
info_outlineJoin New York Times columnist David Brooks with renowned economist Tyler Cowen for a conversation about technology, morality, and finding humility in today’s fractious political culture — in a live taping of Cowen’s hit podcast Conversations with Tyler.
David Brooks’ explorations of morality in contemporary politics and culture — the cultivation of spiritual and intellectual rigor through compromise and humility — have made him an uncommonly steady voice in an unsteady time. Critiquing the excesses of the right and the left in his bestselling books and New York Times columns, Brooks examines how class, education, and consumer culture have shaped our identities. He is exactly the kind of thinker who Tyler Cowen loves to talk with on Conversations with Tyler — Cowen’s hit podcast offering wide-ranging examinations of work, the world, and everything in between: a platform for genuine intellectual curiosity.
Returning to 92NY’s stage after his sold-out conversation kicking off The Dialogue Project, hear Cowen talk to Brooks about what has shaped their intellectual lives. Take an unscripted tour of Brooks’s early Chicago crime-reporting days, how he would redesign his famed Yale “Humility” syllabus for a TikTok-native generation, the evolution of his religious worldview, his latest ideas on “moral capital,” and much more.