The New York Times
also referred to as: new york times
includes New York Times Bestseller List, The New York Times Book Review
10 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2015 by Jason Zweig · said 148 times in 57 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Shane Parrish (59), Balaji Srinivasan (13), Douglas Rushkoff (10), Gabriel Weinberg (8), Dr. Sue Johnson (8), Jim Murphy (4), Steven Strogatz (3), Philip Tetlock (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2025 25 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
- Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- Mickey Drexler: The Art of Selling with Retail's Merchant Prince
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 27 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
2023 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2022 17 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2021 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2020 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- #78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- #73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities
- #94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- #90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- #82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- #62 Dr. Sue Johnson: Cracking the Code of Love
- #72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- #50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- #63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- #61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- #60 Jim Dethmer: Leading Above the Line
- #55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- #39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- #45 Dan Kluger: Taking Time to Get It Right
- #42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- #40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- #35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time
- #33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about The New York Times, oldest first
Oct 19, 2015 bearish
Charlie Munger told Zweig he fears the loss of media oligopolies
“Charlie Munger told me last year when I was at the Daily Journal meeting in Los Angeles that he really fears for the future of the Republic, as he puts it that newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times no longer have the, I guess I would s…”
May 14, 2019 positive
Jul 23, 2019 negative
Johnson: Romantic attachment is structured by biology, not social convention
“These things are not social conventions. They're not made up. You know, the New York Times writes articles about how Oh, romantic. Love is changing, and, you know, we're all going to be polyamorous, or we're going to have hookups until we're 60, and it's all g…”
Nov 16, 2021 negative
Rushkoff: The New York Times misrepresented Israeli COVID study for clicks
“So when I see a piece In the New York Times that, you know, the headline and the first few paragraphs are arguing that, oh, you know, when Israel opened up its schools, its elementary schools COVID rates went up. And then you finally read all the way down, and…”
Nov 16, 2021 negative
Rushkoff: Factual institutions lose when they manipulate truth to manage perceptions
“Once you start playing that game,
You're going to lose to whoever plays that game more ruthlessly.
You know, if you're going to be on the side of supposedly factual evidence-based reality, you got to stick with that.”
Oct 17, 2023 neutral
Parrish framed a critical NYT comment to motivate himself to work harder
“There was this time, a comment on the New York Times profile that they wrote on me And it literally, you know, I framed it, and I put it in the office, and it was like this guy's enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. And it drove me to be better and to work harder …”
Dec 10, 2024 negative
Hoehn: NYT bestseller ROI comes from marketing effort, not the credential
“And I will say to people who hit the list, like congrats, it's hard to do. And you're probably going to make whatever investment you made into hitting that list back, but it won't be because of the list. It will not be because of the New York, it will be corre…”
Dec 10, 2024 neutral
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Johnson: Biology rejects polyamory trends because human love is neurologically hardwired
“The New York Times writes articles about how Oh, romantic, love is changing, and, you know, we're all going to be polyamorous, or we're going to have hookups until we're 60, and it's all going to be great, and, you know, there's going to be lots of freedom, an…”
Jan 1, 2026
Parrish: News Outlets Will Personalize Article Text to Readers' Preferences
“So increasingly, I mean, we're moving to a world. I don't think people quite realize that yet where you and I open the same article in the wall street journal or New York times, it's going to be two different versions of that article that's based on our browsi…”