Lewis: I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. My great, my distant grandfather had been sent down by Thomas Jefferson. So the first legal opinions are Lewis 1-1. Even I was aware that this is a bizarre level of privilege in a society.
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit the book that launched the analytics revolution.