Jonah Bennett is the Editor-in-Chief of Palladium Magazine, an online publication out of the SF Bay Area focusing on issues of government, society, and liberalism. This post is the third in an ongoing series of interviews with people invested in the idea of human progress. Nick Whitaker: Palladium’s thesis could be stated as a need for innovation […]
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University. His most recent book is 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust the Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less. His last book was Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own. This post is the second in an ongoing […]
Jason Crawford is an entrepreneur and writer. He is a leader in the incipient field of Progress Studies. He blogs at The Roots of Progress, which is funded by a grant from Emergent Ventures. This post is the first in an ongoing series of interviews of people interested in human progress. Nick Whitaker: When did you really […]
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, activist, spiritual leader, and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Nomination. Nick: I’m very interested in how you think about politics. You’ve spoken about spiritual problems facing the country. How can we tell the difference between a problem which is material in nature, like that people just need some more […]
Anton Howes is an economic historian studying the industrial revolution. He is currently the in-house historian at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Previously, he was a postdoc at Brown’s Political Theory Project and a lecturer at King’s College London. He recently launched a newsletter, The Age of Invention. Nick: Some have […]
Gregory H. Shill is a law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. His recent work, including Should Law Subsidize Driving? (forthcoming in the NYU Law Review), has focused on transportation law and policy. Over the summer, he published an article in The Atlantic, Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It, detailing […]
Dr. Jeffrey Miron is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is known for his work on libertarian economics and on the economics of black markets. Dr. Miron describes himself as a consequentialist libertarian, in that he thinks libertarian policies prove to be preferable on […]
Nick: I remember first reading about a controversy surrounding the New History of Capitalism scholarship when Dr. Edward Baptist’s book, The Half Has Never Been Told, released in 2014. It seems that The New York Times’ 1619 Project reignited this controversy. Would you mind giving a brief history of all of this? Phil: Sure. In the early 2010s […]
The Neoliberal Project is a nonprofit organization seeking to create a new understanding of neoliberalism for our current political moment. The Project believes in both the power of markets to create wealth and the need for a social safety net to redistribute that wealth fairly. They are especially known for their active twitter account (@ne0liberal), […]
Tyler Cowen is a distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University and noted polymath. He blogs with Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution and interviews on his podcast, Conversations With Tyler, where he is renowned for his eccentric, abrupt, and fast-paced style of interview. Cowen recently launched Emergent Ventures, an initiative which seeks to give […]