Are You a Conservative or a Republican?

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Twitter, instagram and other social networking sites have taken over the internet. Michael Wolraich argues that they need to be held accountable for their harms. He says it's a good idea to make these companies more accountable legally. The key to republican revival is simply going to be the mistakestt the democrats make, he adds.

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises, and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson, who explains why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are making us worse, not better, at handling disasters.