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@calflyn explores spiritual quests at Mount Sinai, the return of predators to Europe, the uncomfortable economics of trophy hunting, & why we secretly crave discomfort in an age of endless comfort. Listen to the full EconTalk episode w/ host @EconTalker. https://t.co/72U0wlCHz7

[Econlib @Econlib]

NYC's "just cause" law bars firing rideshare drivers without cause. Alex MacDonald believe it will backfire, meaning fewer hires and more unemployment.
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Why does the tenth loaf of bread mean so much less than the first? Clifford A. Bates Jr. (@cliffordbates12) traces diminishing marginal utility from Carl Menger back to Aristotle, and argues it points toward goods consumption alone can never satisfy at 🔗 https://t.co/aCtSzXGDKz

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@calflyn @EconTalker Listen below: https://t.co/72U0wlCHz7

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What is wilderness when seven billion people share the planet and nowhere remains truly untouched? Author and journalist @Calflyn discusses her book The Savage Landscape with EconTalk host @EconTalker.

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You can't outsource grief, love, or growing up — not even with a corporate memory wipe. Joy Buchanan (@aboutJoy) on Severance, Wild Problems, and the parts of life we shouldn't want to skip at 🔗 https://t.co/BrzrPbN1aT

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

Six months into a stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis that gave him 90 days to live, @BenSasse sits down with @EconTalker for a conversation that refuses easy comfort.

The former US senator and University of Florida president is candid about his physical challenges, but the heart of this exchange is elsewhere: what actually matters when time is short. Sasse reflects on faith and mortality, the "shattering of idols" like his own workaholism, and his pride in his marriage. Along the way, he offers sharp diagnoses of Congress's abdication of responsibility, the crisis inside American universities, and a republic distracted by the "digital casino" in its pocket.

Funny, unflinching, and deeply human, the conversation closes with a meditation on raging against the dying of the light while walking with your head bowed. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:

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How did Hamilton become Hamilton? He began as a Whig fighting imperial overreach—by war's end, he championed a stronger national government.

Explore his development through his first and last writings from the Revolution at https://t.co/GziGSn7nU0

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Join Aeon Skoble (@AeonSkoble) for a 3-session VRG on Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower—tracing hierarchies vs networks from the Reformation to the Internet age, and what it means for order, liberty & governance today. https://t.co/vPuwYVJNTV

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Old sport, clear your calendar 🥂 Join Steve Ealy to dissect Gatsby's green light, bootleg gin and the American Dream gone sideways on September 1, 8, 15, and 22 from 2-3pm EDT. Prohibition-era chaos, Jazz Age glam, zero subtlety. https://t.co/TNT97ttqb3

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Before 1984 & Brave New World, there was We. Join Renee Wilmeth (@feedmedrinkme) for a virtual reading group on dystopian fiction's roots — Zamyatin, Huxley, and Havel on tyranny.

Wednesday Aug 26, Sep 2, 9, 16, 12-1pm EDT. https://t.co/Z5OY9NC8O5

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250 years after Gibbon asked why Rome fell, we're still asking why empires fall. Join Peter Mentzel August 17 (10-11:30am EDT) for the first of a 12-part reading group on Decline and Fall. Join one session or all twelve—your call. https://t.co/f7RfKxrFBA

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Remembering Dr. Mark C. Schug (1947–2026) — five decades spent making economics understandable, practical, and meaningful for students and teachers alike. https://t.co/GJcIeNmRJ0

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

Most discourse about Israel or Palestine is a morality play of good guys vs bad guys. @HusseinAboubak takes a different approach, seeing the conflict as a self-reproducing system of political and economic extraction.

He joins @EconTalker to discuss his childhood in an Egypt organized around the liberation of Palestine and to explore why any exit from the system must run not through policy, but rather through the human need for meaning itself.

Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:

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Rideshare drivers, fast-food workers, and soon maybe everyone in NYC get "just cause" firing protections. Alex MacDonald breaks down why this well-intentioned policy tends to backfire — for the very workers it's meant to help. https://t.co/ygyz56im2M

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No Due Date is Econlib's subscription book club, curated by Pete Boettke. Spend time reading the best in economics, social science, and literature — with a new book each month and exclusive virtual events with Boettke and special guests. 📚 @PeterBoettke https://t.co/IWz4tvtOQR

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Explore the ideas that shaped a nation. Join Todd Estes on Aug. 13 (1:00–2:30 pm EDT) for a VRG comparing Daniel Webster & John C. Calhoun on the slavery debate and the future of the Union. Register: [https://t.co/Z448tHCfyt](https://t.co/Z448tHCfyt)

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Final session of our 6-part virtual reading group on Smith's Wealth of Nations! Join Sarah Skwire & Janet Bufton Aug 10, 2-3:30pm EDT as they close out this series marking the 250th anniversary. Register below: https://t.co/G6xaNEP5sP

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Harary traces his journey from selling grass-growing novelty heads at 23, through building Bakugan and Paw Patrol into global franchises touching the lives of millions of children. Listen in as @EconTalker dives into so much more with his guest. https://t.co/e99GNubPmj

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Happy Birthday, Alexis de Tocqueville! The French thinker who traveled to America and gave us Democracy in America — still one of the sharpest analyses of democratic life ever written. https://t.co/Wgkd9JOhrj