Our Long Walk
Our Long Walk
Why do we find it so hard to care about the rights of other people?
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Why do we find it so hard to care about the rights of other people?

Bill Easterly on Violent Saviors, the “development right of conquest”, and why liberty cannot be a rounding error

In episode 9 of the Our Long Walk podcast, my co-host Jonathan Schoots and I speak with economist Bill Easterly, Professor Emeritus at New York University. Bill has spent much of his career pushing back against the idea that development is mainly a technical problem that can be solved with the right plan. His new book, Violent Saviors, takes that argume…

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