Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Hello everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I’m here with Andrew Sullivan. Andrew needs no introduction, but it is worth noting, he has a new book that just came out called Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021. I would say, if you would like one single all-purpose introduction to Andrew Sullivan, this is the book. Andrew, welcome. Thank you, Tyler. I’m thrilled to be here, and that’s correct: the whole point of doing this book was to say, OK, you hear all this stuff about me — well, here it is. This is the actual bulk of the work. I hope people dip in and out of it. It’s not supposed to be a first-page-to-last-page read, but it’s an attempt to just clarify a little bit what I’ve been writing for the last 30 years. I’m hoping to show that there is a consistency to it. I’m not entirely consistent, obviously, because I’ve changed and the world has changed; but also as a way to just show the history of the last 30 years, because the thing is arranged chronologically. That’s the idea of the book — if you just give a good intro to my various obsessions, passions, beliefs, ideas, and arguments over the last 30 years.…

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