Top Episodes
Jonny Steinberg
"One of my favorite episodes. I thought all of his answers were deep and thoughtful, and it was good to focus on South Africa."
Any Austin
"One of my three or four favorite episodes for the year... I thought it was excellent and magical at times."
Donald Lopez
"One of my favorites of the year, he just had excellent answers to all questions and spit it out immediately. No BS."
Cass Sunstein
"It's like Cass at his very peak, and it's a great episode... He was really up for it and felt challenged."
Gaurav Kapadia
"You're either the most underrated unknown person or the most unknown underrated person... that was excellent."
Ian Leslie
"On John and Paul in the Beatles... That's truly a popular culture topic, but that was very good."
David Robertson
"He was very good, and I quite liked the episode."
Rick Rubin
"It's one of the things I did this year that I'm happiest about."
Books & Articles
The English and Their History
Robert Tombs"That was probably the clear winner for best book of that year, and everyone should read it. Utterly compelling."
Submission
Michel Houellebecq"The most classic work of fiction of the last 20 years... It rewards rereads and it's just incredible."
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith
Charles Moore"One of the best biographies of the last 10 years. Just quality of book, it's unbelievable."
The Hive Mind
Garett Jones"It's held up very well, and I think it's become a seminal work. I'm glad I picked it."
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance"You do say the ones that you think are the best are Ashlee Vance's book on Elon Musk."
The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud"The retelling of Camus has become a classic book."
The Midas Paradox
Scott Sumner"A very thorough book that Scott worked on for something like 20 years."
Misbehaving
Richard Thaler"There should be more books about economics and economists, and that was a good one."