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…
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
Feb 24, 2026
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