Commerce, Not Conquest | Interview: William Easterly
Episode description
Economist William Easterly makes his debut on The Remnant to talk with middle-aged nobody Jonah Goldberg about free trade, USAID, human agency, colonialism, and Chinese liberalization.
Shownotes:
—Easterly’s website
—Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
—Easterly’s recent paper touching on Lee Kuan Yew
—Excerpts from Edmund Burke’s speech on India
—Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
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