Podcasts and Audio Interviews

Capitalisn’t: Is Everyone Getting Adam Smith Wrong? (March 2026)

BBC Free Thinking: Adam Smith (June 2023)

New Works in Intellectual History—Institute of Intellectual History w/ Dr. Robin Mills (February 2023)

Capital Record—The National Review

The Gray Area w/ Sean Illing—Vox Media (January 2023)

Letters and Politics w/ Mitch Jeserich—KPFA (January 2023)

The Not Old - Better Show Smithsonian Associates Interview Series (January 2023)

Freakonomics Radio: In Search of the Real Adam Smith (December 2022)

Part 1 | Part 2 |Part 3

MarketWatch: Best New Ideas in Money “How Adam Smith became an icon of capitalism” (December 2022)

Prevail with Greg Olear (December 2022)

Writ Large: The Wealth of Nations (February 2021)

UW Political Economy Forum (February 2021)

The Institute of Intellectual History (June 2020)

CBC Ideas — Audio documentary (October 2019)

Other writing

“Adam Smith is Known for his Invisible Hand Theory. The Truth is More Complex.” The Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2025.
"Mind and Body: The domineering logic of ballet” The Nation, March 20/27 issue, 2023.
“The Contradictions of Adam Smith” (Author Q&A in The Nation with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins)
“Virtue and Vice: The Many Adam Smiths” The Nation, September 19, 2022.
“How dancing helps me think, and thinking helps me dance,” Aeon Magazine—April 3, 2020
“How the Chicago School Changed the Meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’” The Monkey Cage—Washington Post. April 22, 2019
“How Adam Smith became a (surprising) hero to conservative economics.” Aeon Magazine—June 10, 2019

Lectures and Talks

The Lights of Caledonia Lecture—Adam Smith’s Panmure House, June 2023

American Philosophical Society— April 2023 Annual Meeting

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (March 30, 2023)

C-SPAN Q&A on Adam Smith’s America (Nov. 29, 2022)

Why has inequality continued to increase in the face of an economic recovery? Why is social mobility higher in Canada than in the United States? What explains a persistent and growing educational achievement gap between high and low income families? How does the United States look in comparison to other countries?

“Inequality and Opportunity”

(October 2016)

In conversation with Jim Steyer (Common Sense Media), Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez, David Kennedy, and Rob Reich.

My introductory remarks are at the ~40 min mark

This micro lecture was recorded at Grad Alumni Day on May 19, 2018: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/events/gradalumday Glory Liu, PhD '18, is a political science PhD candidate researching the history of political and economic ideas in American politics. She currently holds a Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, and holds an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History and Classics from the University of Cambridge.

“What Adam Smith Can Teach Us about Inequality”

Stanford Grad Alumni Day, 2019