Marginal Revolutionaries

Alex Tabarrok, perhaps the world’s sole Canadian libertarian, joins The Remnant today for the first time. Inflation ...

Published July 13, 2021

Alex Tabarrok, perhaps the world’s sole Canadian libertarian, joins The Remnant today for the first time. Inflation is on the rise, the vaccine rollout is stalling, and illiberalism is resurgent. In other words, there are plenty of demanding issues for Americans to be concerned about. Thankfully, Tabarrok has a range of considered policy solutions for Jonah to explore. How can we revitalize democracy? Would open borders work? And should we abandon advanced civilization now before the machines destroy us all?

Show Notes:

–Alex’s website

–“Inflation, no chance …”

–Jonah on the wackiness of vaccine paranoia

–Newsmax outcrazies itself

–The Mayor Quimby of anti-vaxxers

–Jonah on the importance of character

–Ezra Klein on the good old days

–Alex’s case for open borders

–“Born American, but in the Wrong Place”

–The Baumol effect

–Home Economics, by Nick Shulz

–The elite master’s degrees that don’t pay off

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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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