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Yes, I will be doing another Conversation with him.  Here is my previous Conversation with him, almost eight years ago.  As many of you will know, Jonathan has a new book coming out, namely The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.  But there is much more […] The post What should I ask Jonathan Haidt?...

These are illustrative numbers, not definitive estimates: Let’s make some base-case assumptions. The most important assumptions are: A 50 year old male who doesn’t exercise can expect to live to age 80 That same male who puts in 8 hours per week of exercise can expect to live to age 88. We will measure investment […] The post The rate of return on exercise...

1. The logic of American vs. Japanese ghost stories. 2. Paul Krugman on the economics of slavery (NYT). 3. The Year in Interintellect. 4. Casey Handmer on Elon Musk. 5. Nils Karlson open-access book on classical liberalism vs. populism.  The book is very much on the mark and I was happy to blurb it. 6. […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on...

That is the new book by Blake Butler, a memoir.  It is no spoiler to tell you that his wife Molly takes her own life at a young age.  I don’t know of any better argument for social conservatism than this book.  And perhaps suicide should be regarded as a sin, not something to get […] The post *Molly* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION....