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Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed (with Dana Gioia)

How can opera, with words we rarely understand, make us cry? Why does opera, filled with melodrama, move us? Listen as poet and librettist Dana Gioia explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts why words matter more than we think, in both opera and on Broadway.

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  Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)

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  Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)

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  The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with …

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  The Status Game (with Will Storr)

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  The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)

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  Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)

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  Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)

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  A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)

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  Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

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  The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)

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  The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)

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  Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)

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  Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

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  How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)

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  How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)

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  Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)