The unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century’s addiction to instant wealth, from the former editor of the Financial Times. As Wa...

My conversation with investigative journalist Charles Piller about his recent book, Doctored. The description below is from Amazon:Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, a tragedy that is already projec...

This conversation was recorded on February 14, 2025. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2024, How to Kill an Asteroid is a gripping account of the "city-killer" asteroids that could threaten Ea...

For decades the most valuable technology company in Europe operated in the shadows. The chips manufactured by its machines, power our smartphones and AI assistants, make our coffee and drive our cars and even guide cruise missiles. In fact, rou...

A conversation with Mike Maples Jr. about the book he co-authored, Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future. Based on extensive research and real-world examples, this book upends accepted wisdom about how to a...

A New York Times bestseller in 2017, An American Sickness reveals the inner workings of the US healthcare system. Elisabeth Rosenthal explores why US healthcare costs are so high, and suggests ways to improve the system. This episode w...

Lawrence A. Cunningham is the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He currently serves as a Director for several publicly-traded companies: Markel Group (NYSE: MKL), Kelly P...

Special family episode this week featuring my father, David Rubenstein, on his new book, The Highest Calling. From Simon and Schuster:For years, bestselling author David M. Rubenstein has distilled the con...

Disclaimer: The content in this episode should not be considered financial or investment advice. Although this could change in the future, at the time of recording and releasing, the host did not own shares in any of the companies discussed.&nb...

The consequences of climate change—rising waters, extreme weather, record temperatures—are transforming our lives, as global warming accelerates more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago. At the same time, the clean energy rev...

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored mol...

A conversation with William Quinn about Boom and Bust, which he co-authored alongside John D. Turner. Published in 2020, Boom and Bust explores financial bubbles across a number of different markets, geographies, and time periods. W...

A conversation with Rob Wertheimer about the book he co-authored in 2020, Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success. The conversation focuses part...

A conversation with Katherine Blunt about her 2022 book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric –– and what it means for America’s power grid. Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visi...

A conversation with author Walter Isaacson about his 2021 book, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returned wi...