Here is the link to the video. Emily Yoffe, who writes the Prudie column at Slate.com, was extremely gracious and charming and articulate. She vouched for the central role of self-deception in human affairs, and in the videocast she had an excellent anecdote about Steven Landsburg and his proposal to improve happy marriages. Will Wilkinson was the moderator.
Here is an associated ten minute podcast, with me. You can subscribe to Cato podcasts on iTunes here.
I admire your patience with the questioners. You give thoughtful answers where I would have given eye-rolls.
Good talk.
Are you a fan of novelist Thomas Berger?
I always thought he could mine self-deception for laughs like no one else, even if the context was always absurd.
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