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Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism

402

Catherine Semcer on Poaching, Preserves, and African Wildlife

403

Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock

404

Gary Greenberg on the Placebo Effect

405

Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress

406

Jennifer Doleac on Crime

407

Stephen Kotkin on Solzhenitsyn

408

Ed Dolan on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

409

Sebastian Junger on Tribe

410

Mariana Mazzucato on the Value of Everything

411

John Horgan on Mind-Body Problems

412

Peter Berkowitz on Locke, Liberty, and Liberalism

413

Maeve Cohen on Rethinking Economics

414

Anat Admati on the Financial Crisis of 2008

415

A.J. Jacobs on Thanks a Thousand

416

Julia Belluz on Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism

417

Alan Lightman on Science, Spirituality, and Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

418

Michael Munger on Sharing, Transaction Costs, and Tomorrow 3.0

419

Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz

420

Kevin McKenna on Characters, Plot, and Themes of In the First Circle

421

John Gray on the Seven Kinds of Atheism

422

Neil Monnery on Hong Kong and the Architect of Prosperity

423

Noah Smith on Worker Compensation, Co-determination, and Market Power

424

Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence

425

Paul Bloom on Cruelty

426

Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle

427

Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism

428

Charlan Nemeth on In Defense of Troublemakers

429

Lilliana Mason on Uncivil Agreement

430

David Meltzer on the Doctor-Patient Relationship

431

Frank Dikotter on Mao's Great Famine

432

Alberto Alesina on Immigration and Redistribution

433

Teppo Felin on Blindness, Rationality, and Perception

434

Russ Roberts on the Information Revolution, Politics, Yeats, and Yelling

435

Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed

436

Arnold Kling on Morality, Culture, and Tribalism

437

Michael Pollan on Psychedelic Drugs and How to Change Your Mind

438

Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism

439

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change

440

Janet Golden on Babies Made Us Modern

441

Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain and the Master and His Emissary

442

Glen Weyl on Radical Markets

443

Peter Boettke on Public Administration, Liberty, and the Proper Role of Government

444

Joel Peterson on Leadership, Betrayal, and the 10 Laws of Trust

445

Ryan Holiday on Conspiracy, Gawker, and the Hulk Hogan Trial

446

Jonah Goldberg on The Suicide of the West

447

Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of Metrics

448

Vincent Rajkumar on the High Price of Cancer Drugs

449

Michael Munger on Traffic

450

Edward Glaeser on Joblessness and the War on Work

451

Beth Redbird on Licensing

452

Arnold Kling on Economics for the 21st Century

453

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game

454

Elizabeth Anderson on Worker Rights and Private Government

455

Jordan Peterson on 12 Rules for Life

456

Bryan Caplan on the Case Against Education

457

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay on the Enemies of Modernity

458

Marian Goodell on Burning Man

459

John Ioannidis on Statistical Significance, Economics, and Replication

460

Bill James on Baseball, Facts, and the Rules of the Game

461

Dick Carpenter on Bottleneckers

462

Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith on Soonish

463

Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies

464

Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles on the Captured Economy

465

John Cogan on Entitlements and the High Cost of Good Intentions

466

Rachel Laudan on Food Waste

467

Simeon Djankov and Matt Warner on the Doing Business Report and Development Aid

468

Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

469

Anthony Gill on Tipping

470

Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor

471

Michael Munger on Permissionless Innovation

472

Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market

473

Megan McArdle on Internet Shaming and Online Mobs

474

Tim O'Reilly on What's the Future

475

Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True

476

Philip Auerswald on the Rise of Populism

477

Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts

478

Gillian Hadfield on Law and Rules For a Flat World

479

Rob Reich on Foundations and Philanthropy

480

Benedict Evans on the Future of Cars

481

John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move

482

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game

483

Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments, Prosperity, and the Good Society

484

Alex Guarnaschelli on Food

485

Sally Satel on Organ Donation

486

Tamar Haspel on Food Costs, Animal Welfare, and the Honey Bee

487

Martha Nussbaum on Alexander Hamilton

488

Chris Blattman on Chickens, Cash, and Development Economics

489

Robin Feldman on Drug Patents, Generics, and Drug Wars

490

Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell

491

Don Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent Order

492

Christy Ford Chapin on the Evolution of the American Health Care System

493

David Boaz, P.J. O'Rourke, and George Will on the State of Liberty

494

Lant Pritchett on Poverty, Growth, and Experiments

495

Cass Sunstein on #Republic

496

Tyler Cowen on The Complacent Class

497

Jennifer Pahlka on Code for America

498

Elizabeth Pape on Manufacturing and Selling Women's Clothing and Elizabeth Suzann

499

Rana Foroohar on the Financial Sector and Makers and Takers

500

Erica Sandberg on Homelessness and Downtown Streets Team