1. Jonah Goldberg talks about his Suicide of the West with Ben Shapiro. I recommend both the book and the vidcast. It reminded me that my essay on “micro-morality and macro-morality” owes a debt to Hayek that I failed to articulate.
2. John Carryrou talks about his Bad Blood with Nick Gillespie. I recommend the book a bit more than the vidcast, although the latter does make a nice effort to get into a couple of the questions that I posed in my endorsement of the book.
And while we are on Theranos, I liked this sentence from a commenter.
After reading Carreyrou’s book, I am inclined to view Theranos more as an extreme point on a smooth distribution than as an one-of-a-kind outlier, otherwise the displayed level of credulity is difficult to explain even given a lot of people’s fervent wish for a female Steve Jobs.
Yes, as someone who works on the ‘inside’ of gov’t funded medical research, Theranos was only a bit extreme – in ways that made it seem very promising, I should add – rather than unique, when they approached us looking for support.