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Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious Times

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Patrick House on Consciousness

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Annie Duke on the Power of Quitting

204

Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard

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Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education

206

Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and Photography

207

Michael Munger on Industrial Policy

208

Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny

209

Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto

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Roland Fryer on Educational Reform

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Sonat Birnecker Hart on Whiskey

212

Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

213

Kieran Setiya on Midlife

214

David McRaney on How Minds Change

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Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future

216

Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft

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Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility

218

Tyler Cowen on Talent

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Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems

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Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

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John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect

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Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

223

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale

224

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

225

A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

226

Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates

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Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

228

Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War

229

Ian Leslie on Curiosity

230

Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics

231

Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin

232

Chris Blattman on Why We Fight

233

Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering

234

Michael Munger on Antitrust

235

Tyler Cowen on Reading

236

Russ Roberts on Education

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Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy

238

Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX

239

Robert Pindyck on Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

240

Maxine Clark on Building the Build-a-Bear Workshop

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Angela Duckworth on Character

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Tamar Haspel on First-Hand Food

243

Luca Dellanna on Compulsion, Self-deception, and the Brain

244

Michael Eisenberg on the Start-Up Nation, Storytelling, and the Power of Technology

245

John Taylor on Inflation, the Fed, and the Taylor Rule

246

Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient Societies

247

Penny Lane on Loving and Loathing Kenny G

248

Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts on Nation, Immigration, and Israel

249

Gregory Zuckerman on the Crazy Race to Create the COVID Vaccine

250

Lorne Buchman on Creativity, Leadership, and Art

251

Megan McArdle on Belonging, Home, and National Identity

252

Michael Munger on Constitutions

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Frank Rose on Internet Narratives

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Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus on GiveDirectly

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Nina Kraus on Hearing, Noise, and Of Sound Mind

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Eric Jacobus on the Art and Science of Violence

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Emily Oster on the Family Firm

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Sandra Faber on the Future of the Earth

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Jennifer Frey on Education, Philosophy, and the University

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Paul Bloom on Happiness, Suffering, and the Sweet Spot

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Rowan Jacobsen on Truffle Hound

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Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of Us

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Arnold Kling on Reforming Government and Expertise

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Noreena Hertz on the Lonely Century

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David Henderson on the Essential UCLA School of Economics

266

Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical Reform

267

Johann Hari on Lost Connections

268

Bret Devereaux on Ancient Greece and Rome

269

Michael Heller and James Salzman on Mine!

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Nicholas Wapshott on Samuelson and Friedman

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Michael Munger on Free Markets

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Jonathan Rauch on the Constitution of Knowledge

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James Heckman on Inequality and Economic Mobility

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Michael Easter on the Comfort Crisis

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Don Boudreaux on the Pandemic

276

Claudia Hauer on War, Education, and Strategic Humanism

277

Sebastian Junger on Freedom

278

Anja Shortland on Lost Art

279

Donald Shoup on the Economics of Parking

280

Ian Leslie on Conflicted

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Bruce Meyer on Poverty

282

Jason Riley on Race in America

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Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset

284

Agnes Callard on Anger

285

Katy Milkman on How to Change

286

Roya Hakakian on A Beginner's Guide to America

287

Mark Rank on Poverty and Poorly Understood

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Emiliana Simon-Thomas on Happiness

289

Tyler Cowen on the Pandemic, Revisited

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Max Kenner on Crime, Education, and the Bard Prison Initiative

291

Megan McArdle on Catastrophes and the Pandemic

292

Sherry Turkle on Family, Artificial Intelligence, and the Empathy Diaries

293

Leon Kass on Human Flourishing, Living Well, and Aristotle

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Michael Munger on Desires, Morality, and Self-Interest

295

John Cochrane on the Pandemic

296

Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop

297

Lamorna Ash on Dark, Salt, Clear

298

Michael McCullough on the Kindness of Strangers

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Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare

300

Gary Shiffman on the Economics of Violence