What Is Your Next Task?

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Econ Talk is CNN Radio's weekly, offbeat look at stories you saw on the news. This week, Jarrett ponders his new job as dean of faculty at a university in Chicago. He talks about what he'll be doing to help students prepare for their first alumnus gala dinner this evening. And how an old teacher chose a poem by William Butler Yeats that helped him study it again and get some light.

Can Israeli society survive the loss of universal military service? Will the deregulation of Israel's kosher supervision spell the end of its Jewish character? And, speaking of Israel, what is it that makes its television dramas so good? Tyler Cowen discusses these and other subjects with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, new immigrant to Israel and unabashed fan of the Prisoners of War miniseries and Homer's Odyssey.