Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

By Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture Business

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Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball) takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness—in financial markets, newsrooms, basketball games, courts of law, and much more. And he asks what’s happening to a world where everyone loves to hate the referee.

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Against the Rules Presents:...

11.15.2019

A new show from Pushkin Industries: Cautionary Tales. We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim ...

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis episodes:

11.15.2019 Against the Rules Presents: Cautionary Tales A new show from Pushkin Industries: Cautionary Tales. We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim ...
05.21.2019 Bonus Live Episode: Michael Lewis and Malcolm Gladwell Around the launch of Against the Rules, Michael spoke with his friend and co-producer, the author Malcolm Gladwell, at the 92Y in New York. Hear them talk about podcasting, referees, and the magic of “conversational delight.”
05.14.2019 The Magic Shoebox Where is a millisecond worth a million dollars? The New York Stock Exchange.
05.07.2019 Baby Judge School Judges now want us to know they’re human. But maybe we’d be better off if we didn’t know.
04.30.2019 The Neutral What kind of person makes a neutral referee? It’s not the kind of person you think.
04.23.2019 The Hand of Leonardo The authenticator ref absolves everyone of blame. And sometimes generates money out of thin air.
04.16.2019 The Alex Kogan Experience Everyone hates grammar and ethics cops. Until they need one.
04.09.2019 The Seven Minute Rule The government protects us from some dangerous products, but not from others that, over time, ruin countless lives. Michael has started a Go Fund Me campaign to help Katie finally be free of her student loan burden. If you would ...
04.02.2019 Ref, You Suck! Rage at referees is all the rage in professional sports. Michael Lewis visits a replay center that’s trying to do the impossible: adjudicate fairness.
03.22.2019 Introducing Against the Rules with Michael Lewis Get ready for the launch of Michael Lewis's first podcast, where he takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (in New Jersey). What happens when fairness can't be ...