Freakonomics Radio

How to Make Your Own Luck (Update)

639. “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time”

638. Are You Ready for the Elder Swell?

What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Update)

637. What It’s Like to Be Middle-Aged (in the Middle Ages)

636. Why Aren’t We Having More Babies?

An Economics Lesson from a Talking Pencil (Update)

635. Can a Museum Be the Conscience of a Nation?

634. “Fault-Finder Is a Minimum-Wage Job”

633. The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update)

632. When Did We All Start Watching Documentaries?

631. Will "3 Summers of Lincoln" Make It to Broadway?

Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)

630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing

629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?

Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

628. Sludge, Part 2: Is Government the Problem, or the Solution?

627. Sludge, Part 1: The World Is Drowning in It

Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Update)

626. Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System

625. The Biden Policy That Trump Hasn’t Touched

EXTRA: The Downside of Disgust (Update)

624. The Animal No One Loves, Until They Do

623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?

The Show That Never Happened

622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?

621. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?

When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee? (Update)

620. Why Don’t Running Backs Get Paid Anymore?

619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine

Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

618. Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis?

617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Highway Signs and Prison Labor

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

616. How to Make Something from Nothing

615. Is Ozempic as Magical as It Sounds?

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

614. Is the U.S. Sleeping on Threats from Russia and China?

613. Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard.

612. Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset?

How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse (Update)

611. Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next

610. Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?