With Jonah still on the road, he has time only for some brief commentary on the Kavanaugh debacle. This episode is otherwise a recording of a conversation between Jonah and Charles Murray, author of Coming Apart, on their respective oeuvres.
Show Notes:
- My controversial NPR hit
- Conversations with Bill Kristol
- The Bahnsen Group
- Buy a copy (or two or three or four…) of Suicide of the West
- By The People by Charles Murray
- I highly recommend Deidre McCloskey’s books as well
- The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
- The Jaws “I got that beat” scene
- McGuffey’s Readers
- “If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”
- Paul Bloom’s Just Babies
- Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
- “You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think, and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly”
- Jonathan Haidt on young people’s obsession with niceness and feelings
- A Q&A on The Bell Curve with Dr. Murray
- Check out Dr. Murray’s book Coming Apart also
- HumanProgress has a whole lot of content worth investigating
- 44% of white Americans said they would leave the neighborhood if a black family moved next door in 1958. By 1998 that number had fallen to 1%
- The Megan McArdle Remnant episode, in which I discuss my views on the drug war and legalization at length
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