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Sep 21, 2023 | quillette.com | Sohale Andrus Mortazavi |Hannah Gal |Marco den Ouden

A review of Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, 336 pages, Basic Books (July 2023). We are, according to a number of recent commentators, in a golden age of grift. Pyramid schemes are on the rise. Scammers are raking it in like never before. Shameless promotion of nonsensical cryptocurrency, NFT, and “Web3” projects is impossible to avoid.

Sep 13, 2023 | quillette.com | Saul Zimet |Marco den Ouden |Gregory Clark

In a recent panel discussion at the Institute of Art and Ideas, internationally renowned Marxist professor Slavoj Žižek accused successful entrepreneurs of having become wealthy by privatizing resources that previously belonged to all of us.

Sep 11, 2023 | quillette.com | Andrew M. Koppelman |Marco den Ouden |Kara Jesella |Alex Nowrasteh

A review of Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greedby Andrew Koppelman, 320 pages, Macmillan (Oct 2022)Andrew Koppelman “was not reading libertarian writers in a generous spirit” when he undertook to investigate libertarian thought, he writes in the Introductionto his eighth book, Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy was Corrupted by Greed and Delusion. “I was predisposed for a fight.

Sep 6, 2023 | quillette.com | Marco den Ouden |Oscar Clarke

Denunciations of “dog-whistle politics” are now a familiar part of contemporary public discourse. The metaphor refers to the high-pitched sound that calls canines but cannot be heard by humans, and it is used to imply that an apparently neutral policy or argument is actually a subtle or coded appeal to the biases of a select audience.