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Too much theory leads economists to bad predictions
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The legendary leftist intellectual also discusses his theory of the good life and more.
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
I’m Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” [MUSIC PLAYING]
The first political book I ever received was “9-11” by Noam Chomsky. My older brother gave it to me, just a little bit after 9/11. And I read it, and I reread it. And I argued with people over it. And then over the years, I would dip into the Noam Chomsky library. And just always its breadth is so astonishing. Noam Chomsky, he’s written more political books than I can count, and politics isn’t even his main research interest. He’s a pioneering linguist who put that entire field on a new footing. He’s done very important work. He’s a media theorist. He’s made waves in the artificial intelligence world. It’s really a remarkable example of a mind just continually at work. And it’s still true. Chomsky is 92, and he’s still writing books and giving interviews and trying to make his
Lady Bird Johnson influenced LBJ’s key policies by introducing him to leading women thinkers
LBJ and Lady Bird believed in the moral case for government intervention, until Lady Bird met a woman who challenged her.
By Julia Sweig
The following is an excerpt from Julia Sweig’s new book, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight,” which is based the former First Lady’s own words from over 123 hours of audio diaries, most of it never before heard.
In the spring of 1964, while on the lecture circuit in Washington, Barbara Ward took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., sipped tea with Lady Bird Johnson, and dined with the presidential couple. A native of Yorkshire, England, the third-floor guest at the White House had studied as a teenager at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and in Germany before graduating from Oxford in 1935 with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
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