Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Don't pick sides. Unless it's my side.
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 …
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.
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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 …
The Alex Kogan Experience
Everyone hates grammar and ethics cops. Until they need one.
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The Hand of Leonardo
The authenticator ref absolves everyone of blame. And sometimes generates money out of thin air.
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The Neutral
What kind of person makes a neutral referee? It’s not the kind of person you think.
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Baby Judge School
Judges now want us to know they’re human. But maybe we’d be better off if we didn’t know.
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The Magic Shoebox
Where is a millisecond worth a million dollars? The New York Stock Exchange.
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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 …
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 …
Bonus Against the Rules: Help in a Crisis
While working on the next season of Against the Rules coming later this spring, Michael Lewis has had some conversations that we didn’t want to hold. …
Introducing Against the Rules Season 2
Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball) takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness. It feels like there's less of it every day—whether it comes to …
The Invisible Coach
Credit card companies are making billions of dollars off of people who don’t understand the rules of the money game. Can a good coach help level the …
Against the Rules Presents: Michael Lewis in Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg
Michael Lewis interviews the Co-Founders of Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, as part of Dell Technologies Small Business …
Don't Be Good – Be Great
Michael revisits his high school days in New Orleans to tell the story of Billy Fitzgerald, the baseball coach who changed his life; and makes the …
The Coach in Your Head
Just about anyone today can call themselves a coach. Michael traces this trend back to its source and finds out that the secret to effective coaching lies not in retraining the body, but …
The Coach Effect
Colleges today talk a big game about valuing diversity — so why are so many of them failing to retain first-generation students?
- We meet a homeless …
The Data Coach
We explore the quantitative, scientific, and data-driven new frontier of coaching.
- Major League baseball is undergoing a coaching revolution from …
The Unfair Coach
Back when coaching didn’t do very much, it didn’t matter who got it and who didn’t. But coaching is clearly getting better and better, and spreading into more areas of life, which means it …
Aim Higher
Can everyone be coached — or are some people beyond help?
- The transformative power of coaching is put to the test as Michael enlists a coach to help …
Presenting: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
I’m hard at work on the next season of Against the Rules, coming this fall. Until then, I wanted to share a new audiobook from my good friend, …
The Premonition
In this special bonus episode of Against the Rules, Michael Lewis reads a chapter from his new book about the pandemic, The Premonition —available …
Against the Rules Presents: A Slight Change of Plans
Michael Lewis speaks to his friend, the cognitive scientist Dr. Maya Shankar, about her new podcast, A Slight Change of Plans. They discuss Maya’s own life change, why she decided to make a …
Live Interview 5/19/21: Michael Lewis and Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks interviews Michael Lewis about his new book “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.” They also discuss …
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