At least five interesting things to start your week (#25)

Greetings, wonderful readers! This week’s roundup actually has nothing to do with sword-wielding rabbits, but I thought the picture was amusing, so there you go. Anyway, this week I have a couple of podcasts for you. First, I appeared on Russ Roberts’ venerable and esteemed EconTalk podcast to talk about imperialism and national wealth. Here’s a link if you just want to listen, and here’s a video link if you’d rather watch: And I have two episodes of Econ 102 for you this week! The first is with both Erik Torenberg and Dan Romero, in which we discuss international affairs, war, geopolitics, etc: And in the second, Erik and I discuss Claudine Gay’s resignation at Harvard, and various issues plaguing U.S. academia: Here are Apple Podcasts and YouTube links to Episode 25, and here are Apple Podcasts and YouTube links to Episode 26! Whew! That was a lot of podcasts. Let’s move on to the weekly roundup. This week’s items mostly center around the theme of “negative narratives about the U.S.

Greetings, wonderful readers! This week’s roundup actually has nothing to do with sword-wielding rabbits, but I thought the picture was amusing, so there you go. Anyway, this week I have a couple of podcasts for you. First, I appeared on Russ Roberts’ venerable and esteemed EconTalk podcast to talk about imperialism and national wealth. Here’s a link if you just want to listen, and here’s a video link if you’d rather watch: And I have two episodes of Econ 102 for you this week! The first is with both Erik Torenberg and Dan Romero, in which we discuss international affairs, war, geopolitics, et