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If he comes for you the only recourse is to repeat his questions back to him verbatim. (This is akin to showing Medusa her reflection)

Gonna end up a 7s game at this rate

This is maybe the first time I’ve regretted deleting my Twitter account?!

Countries need to be focusing 1000x more energy on adaptation to an older age structure. (I explore this in my recent edited book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204921...)

Looongtime Slate+ podcast listener—you folks have become my fav of the bunch. (With a special carveout for Hit Parade, obv)

Bingo!

I’ll go even further and defend *Nuzzi’s* prose in the limited sense that it seems to be simply the kind of thing you cook up when you have to fill a book with words but don’t have a lot to say (or willingly admit). The function is “fulfill this book deal” and form follows function.

It’s weird listening to the slate political gabfest for years and occasionally hearing the hosts talk about their kids, and all of a sudden one of those kids is grown up, out in the wild, and confidently issuing questionable ideas!

Indeed, I wrote this book with MIT’s head of open learning on how the “winnowing” function of school gets in the way of the teaching/learning function. www.amazon.com/Grasp-Scienc...