My new book, WILD PROBLEMS comes out August 9--how to face the big life decisions that define us, decisions where so-called rationality either misleads or is irrelevant. Pre-order now:
I will be reading Tolstoy's short story/novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and discussing it with @RabbiWolpe for EconTalk. Episode should air in about a month. Feel free to read it in advance.
The Baptists And Bootleggers Of AI
Economists have observed a longstanding pattern in reform movements of this kind. The actors within movements like these fall into two categories – “Baptists” and “Bootleggers” – drawing on the historical example of the prohibition of alcohol
Could someone please make a movie interviewing rank-and-file soldiers of the IDF about what they had to endure in this war in Gaza and in Lebanon? Interview a few hundred, not 24, about what it was like on the ground, dealing with risks to civilians in Gaza, what they were told