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Evel Knievel, the world-famous daredevil, is planning his greatest ever stunt. In 1974, he wants to leap over Snake River Canyon in Idaho. The chasm is almost a third of a mile wide, much bigger than any jump he’s done before. To make…
In a small black box, in a cupboard just out of reach of my desk, I keep one of my few treasured possessions: a set of Oblique Strategies cards, signed by their co-creator, the artist and musician Brian Eno. The cards, each carrying a brief…
In 1942, eight men are sent from Nazi Germany to infiltrate America. Their mission: to sabotage critical infrastructure. Their problem: they’re idiots. Operation Pastorius soon devolves into one of the most baffling failures of World War II…
<p>TweetHere’s a letter to a new correspondent. Mr. Barnett: Thanks for sharing Oren Cass’s September 4th post in which he argues that Trump’s tariffs are successful. Here are two reactions – one general, the other detailed. First, no infor…
<p>TweetNational Review‘s John Puri decries J.D. Vance’s latest collectivist policy proposal: Government subsidies for stay-at-home parents. Two slices: Meanwhile, the administration’s proposal would expand eligibility for the s…
<p>Tweet… is from page iv of the late Nobel-laureate Gary Becker’s Foreword to the 1990 second edition of David Friedman’s superb textbook, Price Theory: An Intermediate Text: [C]onsider tariffs, quotas, and other protection aga…
Yes I will be doing a podcast with him. From Wikipedia: Kevin Roose…is an American author and journalist. He is the author of three books, and is a technology columnist and podcast host for The New York Times. He wrote a book about Li…
1. Crime and drunkenness map of England and Wales (that was then, this is now). 2. Cesar Aira says he will stop writing. 3. Toward a post-cultural state? 4. Madrid has great PISA scores. 5. Firms as foragers. 6. Asimov Press is back. The po…
A spot of good news for Britain. Next has won its appeal and may go on paying warehouse workers more than “equal value” retail workers. I’ve written about this case in Equality Act 2010, The Equal Pay Madness Just Got Madd…
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Tomorrow is the first meeting of my freshman seminar at Harvard . Here are the books we are reading this year: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, by Robert Heilbroner Capitalism and Freedom,…
I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.