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The Pandemic Gets the Michael Lewis Treatment, Heroic Technocrats and All
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There’s nobody Michael Lewis likes better than a hero who gives a defiant middle finger to the conventional wisdom: the short-seller who bets against a soaring mortgage market; the equities trader who insists that the stock exchange is “rigged”; the baseball general manager who consults the cold stats, instead of relying on the fuzzy feeling of gut instinct.
And then there’s Lewis himself, who has made his own name and fortune by writing against expectations, taking arcane subjects that most of his mega-readership might know next to nothing about and skillfully unfurling their intricacies in all of their dramatic glory. His last book, “The Fifth Risk,” was about the unsung heroes of the federal bureaucracy (or what the former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon derided as the “administrative state”), and how the Trump White House was making their job harder, if not i