Garett Jones is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of several books: Hive Mind, 10% Less Democracy, and his latest book: The Culture Transplant.Buy The Culture Transplant:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35594Garett’s other books:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23082Garett on Twitter:https://twitter.com/GarettJonesMy Interview With Tyler Cowen:Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-matthew-yglesias.htmlTimestamps:0:00 Democracy33:00 Libertarianism37:00 Singapore43:00 Intelligence1:10:10 State Capacity1:18:30 Immigration and Culture1:41:00 Diversity1:50:00 Public Trust2:00:00 Populism and Shorism This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of many books, including Why People Believe Weird Things, the Moral Arc, and most recently, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.Conspiracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Conspiracy-Why-Rational-Believe-Irrational/dp/1421444453Michael on Twitter:https://twitter.com/michaelshermerRichard Hanania Interview:Jon Askonas: Reality is Just a Game Nowhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now0:00 History6:30 Conspiracy Theories24:00 Religious Sects41:00 Evolutionary Adaptation57:30 Social Media Algorithms1:13:30 Sex Differences1:17:00 Trump1:31:00 Pandemics1:36:00 Deep State1:51:00 Lab Leak1:59:00 The Intellectual Dark Web2:10:00 Academia2:28:00 Chaos and Order This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Richard Bruns is an economist who worked on cost-benefit for the FDA and now works at a biosecurity organization funded by the Open Philanthropy Foundation.Tyler Cowen on From the New WorldZvi Mowshowitz on FTNW:Scott Alexander on the FDA This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

In which we discuss:Effective AltruismPsychopathyMachine LearningPhilosophy of ScienceNeuroticismFree SpeechCatholic Integralists This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of Em, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.0:00 Authenticity9:30 Autodidacts22:30 Deaths of Despair39:20 World Mob1:17:00 The Sacred1:28:30 Tax Career Agents1:39:00 Elon Musk1:42:00 Academic Standards1:51:00 Academia and IQ tests2:25:00 Order and ChaosRobin on Twitter:https://twitter.com/robinhansonRound 1:Robin Hanson and Agnes Callard on Autodidacts:https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/autodidactRobin Hanson Debates Curtis Yarvin: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jon at the New Atlantis:https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonasWhy Conservatism Failed:https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failedJon’s twitter:https://twitter.com/jonaskonasPodcast with Jon and Geoff Shullenberger: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jonathan Rauch is the author of the Constitution of Knowledge, Kindly Inquisitors, the Happiness Curve, and much more.0:00 The Constitution of Knowledge23:30 Trump28:00 Cognitive Bias48:15 Game Theory 1:12:00 EgregoresJon on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jon_rauchBJ Campbell on From the New World:Jonathan Rauch — How American Politics Went Insane:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/Atlantic Dinosaurs:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strength American Democracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Political-Realism-Back-Room-Strengthen-Democracy-ebook/dp/B00WNCUMEW This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Arnold Kling is an economist, former writer at EconLog and writer of the In My Tribe substack, and the author of many books, including Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics, andThe Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. We discuss polarization, Never-Trumpers, intellectual honesty, specialization, vaccines, scientific innovation, tribalism, empathy, “fantasy intellectual teams”, and the administrative state.0:00 Polarization20:30 Never-Trump41:00 Intellectual Honesty1:03:00 Specialization1:21:00 Vaccines and Innovation1:39:20 Does specialization cause tribalism2:24:00 Order, Chaos, and the Administrative StateIn My Tribe, by Arnold Kling:Arnold on Twitter:https://twitter.com/KlingBlogEconlog:https://www.econlib.org/author/akling/Specialization and Trade:https://www.amazon.ca/Specialization-Trade-Re-introduction-Arnold-Kling-ebook/dp/B01GW3SOOMThe Three Languages of Politics:https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Languages-Politics-Talking-Political/dp/1944424466My conversation with Zvi Mowshowitz:My conversation with Richard Hanania:Designing a Better Regulatory State by Arnold Kling:https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/designing-a-better-regulatory-stateAlbion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America:https://www.amazon.ca/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-America/dp/0195069056Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the Worldhttps://www.amazon.ca/Special-Providence-American-Foreign-Changed/dp/0415935369Warriors and Worriers:https://www.amazon.ca/Warriors-Worriers-Survival-Joyce-Benenson-ebook/dp/B00HO6WT3O This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jeremy is senior fellow at the Claremont institute, writer and builder in early silicon valley, contributor to many, many publications, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration. We discuss early silicon valley, the dissident right, authoritarian regimes, rationalism, Covid policy, immigration, economies of scale, chesterton, and “Godel, Escher, Bach”. Jeremy on Web 1.0:https://return.life/2022/03/07/web-1-0/Jeremy’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4Curtis Yarvin on From the New World:Godel Escher Bach:https://www.amazon.ca/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567Power of the powerless:https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23Geoff Shullenberger and I on his podcast, Outsider TheoryCompact Endorsement of Trump:https://compactmag.com/article/he-s-still-the-one This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Bryan Caplan is an economist and professor at George Mason University, the writer of the betonit substack and the author of many books: The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, the Case Against Education, Open Borders: the Science and Ethics of Immigration, and the newly released Don’t Be A Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. Bryan’s Susbtack:Bryan’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/bryan_caplanTimestamps:0:00 Feminism30:40 Wokeness and Anti-wokeness39:40 Social Desirability Bias1:00:45 Private Companies1:05:20 Rebranding Libertarianism1:15:15 Life as a Public Intellectual This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe