Episode summary: For the first episode in the new series of History of Ideas – on the great essays and the great essayists – David discusses Montaigne, the man who invented a whole new way of writing and being read. From the fear of death to the joys of life, from the perils of atheism to the pitfal...

Episode summary: What’s more intense than leading the IMF during a financial crisis? For Simon Johnson, it was co-authoring a book with Daron Acemoglu.

Episode summary: For our first ever episode talking about Amazon (somehow?), Logic Magazine co-founder Moira Weigel tells us what she learned about Amazon by spending years interviewing its third-party sellers. From hand sanitizer hoarding to Chinese vendors getting “dragon boated,” Moira gives us a...

Episode summary: Episodio 34: Zucchero, scheletri e marmellate assassine (Stagione 3)

Episode summary: 5. The Paper Trail Trial

Episode summary: The massive consequence of parking minimums

Episode summary: “What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors. Say hello on...

Episode summary: On Background: Crypto Skeptic Proven Right

Episode summary: We’re thrilled to launch a new tool today: a big interactive map of Reddit, showing how biggest subreddits on the site are connected with each other. Mike is joined by iDPI’s very own Jasmine Mangat and Virginia Partridge for a riveting tell-all about RedditMap.Social. You can visit...

Episode summary: This week David talks to Katja Hoyer and Lea Ypi about life under communism. East Germany was the most successful of the communist states of Eastern Europe, measured by economic prosperity and sporting success. Did the GDR ever really offer a model of how Soviet-style communism coul...