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Nov 5, 2026
Russ RobertsHOST
He's the author of many books, essays, and articles, including the book Why Orwell Matters, which is our topic for today.
Russ RobertsHOST
Welcome to EconTalk.
Russ RobertsHOST
Nice of you to have me.
Russ RobertsHOST
You start by saying that Orwell was right about the three big issues of the 20th century, imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism.
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Christopher HitchensGUEST
If you do this, you can go a long way.
Russ RobertsHOST
My guest today has been Christopher Hitchens.
Russ RobertsHOST
Thanks for being part of EconTalk.
Russ RobertsHOST
Welcome to EconTalk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
Russ RobertsHOST
I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Russ RobertsHOST
Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation.
Russ RobertsHOST
The title of that piece was Whimsy and Fragility in the China Shock Narrative.
Russ RobertsHOST
In short, we're going to be talking about a very, very famous paper and an influential paper on the impact of Chinese manufacturing on employment, manufacturing, standard of living in the United States, and some of its implications.
Russ RobertsHOST
Joe, welcome to EconTalk.
Russ RobertsHOST
Hello, welcome.
Russ RobertsHOST
And I also want to add that I interviewed David Autor on this program back in 2016 about that research, and we'll link to that.
Russ RobertsHOST
Welcome to EconTalk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
Russ RobertsHOST
I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Russ RobertsHOST
Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation.
Russ RobertsHOST
She was last year in March of 2022.
Russ RobertsHOST
Her latest book is Situated, Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best, which is our topic for today.
Russ RobertsHOST
Angela, welcome back to EconTalk.
Angela DuckworthGUEST
Russ, it's good to be with you again.
Russ RobertsHOST
What's the
Mike MungerHOST
It's only happened once, but the guest is understandably rather upset.
Mike MungerHOST
I don't know if you, I remember if we talked about this, do you listen to Econ Talk? Yeah.
Mike MungerHOST
Russ and I once, Russ did not get a recording and it happened that the session was really quite bad.
Mike MungerHOST
And so when we redid it, it was far better.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
5,000 would seem like you were the most popular speaker the campus had ever had.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
Well, you know, on any given episode of Econ Talk, probably, I don't know what his numbers are, but I would guess he gets somewhere between, you know, 40 and 60,000 listeners somewhere in there.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
You know, the total universe of people who listen is probably larger.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
That's one of the weird things about podcasts is they have this 90-day kind of shelf life where people, at least on the eggheadier ones, There's a process of discovery.
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Lives Wasted and Well- An Analysis of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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What if you did everything right and discovered on your deathbed that you've wasted your life? Rabbi and author David Wolpe joins visiting fellow Russ Roberts on EconTalk to talk about Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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Weaving Rabbi Wolpe's own brushes with mortality and his years at the bedsides of the dying into Tolstoy's masterpiece, the conversation examines the lies we tell ourselves about death, our longing for honesty and human touch at the end of life, and the way that death forces us to take a clear-eyed look at how we've lived.
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Roberts and Wolpe conclude by offering advice on how we can avoid Ivan's regrets.
John PapolaGUEST
So I was lucky, but it also gave me four hours of daily commuting.
John PapolaGUEST
So it was 2006, seven, eight, the world starts to unravel and I'm sitting on this bus for two hours, starting to listen to Econ Talk with Russ Roberts and American History Books on Audible.
John PapolaGUEST
And...
John PapolaGUEST
As things collapse, I realize, having now spent those couple years just nerding out, teaching myself what I think I know about economics and history and American history, that, oh my gosh, we literally got into this problem because of easy money and zero responsibility lending and basically Keynesianism, you know, stimulus deficits, both personally and nationally.
Russ RobertsHOST
[upbeat music] Welcome to EconTalk, conversations for the curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
Russ RobertsHOST
I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Russ RobertsHOST
Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
Russ RobertsHOST
He is the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, and he's currently scholar in residence for the Maimonides Fund.
Russ RobertsHOST
Our topic for today is Tolstoy's short story, you could call it a novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Russ RobertsHOST
David, welcome to EconTalk.
David WolpeGUEST
Thank you.
David WolpeGUEST
I'm very happy to be here.
Brett TrainorHOST
And the other thing that I found was curiosity really drives me now, right? It's, it's connecting the dots between some obscure podcast, right? Oprah had this guy with, talking about optimism.
Brett TrainorHOST
You know, I've got EconTalk that's talking about...
Brett TrainorHOST
Right.
Brett TrainorHOST
So there's just-- The world is so interconnected, and the, the best ideas can usually come from something that's not in your industry or specifically to what your job is.
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For the first time in human history, the world's population is falling due to declining birth rates in rich and poor countries alike.
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Economist Jesus Fernandez-Vilaverde joins EconTalk to speak with visiting fellow Russ Roberts about why falling fertility has accelerated sharply over the past decade and why it defies easy explanation.
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As the scholars discuss, declining religiosity, increased use of smartphones and social media, soaring housing costs, and changing gender norms are popular but unconfirmed theories of the decline in births.
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Fernández Villaverde offers his own speculative answer.
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