Podcasts and Audio Interviews
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)
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)
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)
“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
“What Adam Smith Can Teach Us about Inequality”
Stanford Grad Alumni Day, 2019
Other writing
"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 Adam Smith became a (surprising) hero to conservative economics.” Aeon Magazine—June 10, 2019