The Podcast Reader

Welcome to The Podcast Reader, a new publication for the intellectually curious and those open to new ideas, featuring selected transcripts of the world’s best longform podcasts. From the overwhelming volume of podcast content, we’ve chosen the highlights for you. Longform podcasts are an important new media, but the excellent content they create is underappreciated. It’s easy to be distracted when listening to them. Interesting details can be missed, especially when episodes are long, and if you’re finding part of a conversation uninteresting, there are no practical ways to ‘skim’ the material. Our printed podcast transcripts make it easier to focus on key points and follow complex ideas

THE PODCAST READER

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THE PODCAST READER

THE PRICE OF PRIMACY • Can the United States stop China becoming the dominant regional power?

A FORGOTTEN GENIUS • The world will never know what has happened, what a light has gone out

ON NEWTON, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND THE HIDDEN WOMEN OF SCIENCE • Science began in the home

GOOD TEAMS KILL GREAT IDEAS • Listen to rejections, with curiosity

THE REAL EGALITARIAN • On Equality, Work and Ideology

HOW TO LIVE • Love is a Classroom

Founders, Community and the Hunt for Talent

Why good people turn bad

The Asian Financial Crisis & the Birth of the Age of Debt

A City in the Cloud