Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis explores the figures in American life who rely on the public's trust, whether in sports, in business, in the courtroom, or on TV. What happens when that trust erodes and we can no longer agree on what's fair and what's not? Get your copy of The Big Short audiobook, narrated by Michael Lewis, on Audible, Spotify, Apple Books, pushkin.fm/bigshort or wherever you get audiobooks.
Latest episodes
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7 min
Out Now: Blockers | Michael Lewis's New Audiobook
My new audiobook, Blockers, is out now! Get the audiobook now exclusively at blockers.fm. And stay tuned for an upcoming Blockers companion series right here on Against the Rules.…
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44 min
How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else Could See from Business History
With the news of Warren Buffett stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, we are revisiting an episode from our two-part series on Buffet. Warren Buffett rose from obscurity…
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38 min
Staten Island v. New York City | Revisionist History
On the 250th anniversary of the United States, Revisionist History, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood, investigates the story…
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48 min
The Nobel Winners Who Almost Crashed the Economy | From Business History
Here's a special episode from Business History (which even mentions Liar's Poker!). Business History is a show about, you guessed it, the history of business and what we can learn…
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2 min
Blockers: A New Audiobook from Michael Lewis
Exciting news! I have an all new book coming out on October 6th: BLOCKERS. You can pre-order your copy of the audiobook exclusively at blockers.fm. The hardcover is available at mi…
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31 min
From Medal of Honor: James Fleming’s Impossible Vietnam War Rescue
In 1968, in the dense jungles of Vietnam, a team of Green Berets was pinned down by an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army force. Their last hope was a young Air Force pilot named J…
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28 min
Welcome to Carbon Cowboys | From Drilled
Drilled, a new addition to the Pushkin network, is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial an…
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1 h 01
Sir David Attenborough: The Voice of the Natural World Turns 100 | From Big Lives
Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this year—and no one has done more to shape how humanity sees our planet. But for years, there was one issue he didn’t talk about...Every week on t…
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30 min
From Slate Money: “The Business of Black Markets”
Here's an episode from Slate Money: Money Talks. Host Felix Salmon is joined by journalist Mariana van Zeller, who has spent years reporting on black and gray markets around the wo…
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32 min
From The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Pleasure
Streamed by millions every day, porn is everywhere. It shapes our culture, our relationships, and even technology. Yet, nobody seems to know who really controls the business. The p…
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1 h 00
Live: Michael Lewis and Maya Shankar on "The Other Side of Change"
Michael Lewis joins his friend and fellow Pushkin podcaster Maya Shankar (host of A Slight Change of Plans) for a live conversation in San Francisco. They discuss her new book in a…
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31 min
Here’s the Scoop from NBC News: Looking Ahead to Politics in 2026 with Steve Kornacki and Ryan Nobles
Here's a preview of another podcast, Here's the Scoop from NBC News. Democrats racked up big political wins in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia this year with a laser-focus on af…
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51 min
Introducing Business History: The Man Who Sued Major League Baseball
Today, we're sharing a new podcast from Pushkin Industries we think you'll enjoy, Business History. Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith examine the surprisin…
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44 min
Live with Nicolle Wallace
Recently, Michael Lewis spoke with Nicolle Wallace, host of the podcast The Best People, at Symphony Space in New York. They discussed what it was like re-visiting the Big Short 15…
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48 min
How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab
According to the science, it really is better to give than receive. Donating a dollar; sharing a kind word or lending someone a hand changes lives, but can also hugely boost your h…
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40 min
Michael Burry Speaks
Of all the characters in The Big Short, fund manager Michael Burry (depicted by Christian Bale in the movie version) seemed the least likely to grant Michael Lewis a follow-up inte…
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44 min
How the Financial Crisis Broke Politics
To wrap up our series on The Big Short, Michael Lewis speaks with two people who represent two very different responses to the financial crisis of 2008: US Senator Elizabeth Warren…
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34 min
How the Financial Crisis Broke Wall Street
To make sense of Wall Street’s hangover from the crash described in The Big Short, Michael Lewis calls up Matt Levine. Levine is author of the Money Stuff newsletter for Bloomberg…
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39 min
Lessons of the Great Depression
Andrew Ross Sorkin writes the business and policy newsletter DealBook for the New York Times and is co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC. He also has a historical bent, and has a new bo…
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49 min
Lender of Last Resort
When Michael Lewis wrote The Big Short, there was an extra character in the story: The Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the US, which bought up bad debt on the balance s…