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Glorious and bracing interrogation of the world’s smartest people: Conversations with Tyler reviewed

Eavesdrop on a very clever man asking interesting people some tricky questions in unorthodox ways

The unsettlingly polymathic Tyler Cowan, with proof that he does find time to eat. Photo: Susan Biddle / The Washington Post / Getty Images 
issue 19 February 2022

Tyler Cowen is a man who leaves you at once in awe and perturbed. He is the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department at George Mason University, and the co-host of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. But his intellectual interests are staggering in scope, enough to unsettle.

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