David Frum: The idea that, I mean, you don't want to rule because sometimes rules are making me broken. Every time, and yet once you open the Pandora's box of discretion, you find yourself doing things you're ashamed of. He says Aristotle talks about cultivating a character in exactly those terms. "I wonder if we shouldn't teach Aristotle to people when they're 50, not 15," he asks.
Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about human wants and desires with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Human beings have desires about our desires. Can we change what we want? And how should economists and normal human beings think about doing the right thing, what we often call morality? Is acting morally self-interested behavior or is it possible to act selflessly?