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If you read Steven Pressfield's gorgeous novel Gates of Fire about the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae...

If you read Grant's memoirs from the Civil War...

Hudson has since published her first book, Soul of Civility, Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.

I don't wanna paint any vocation, any geography, any period in history, or any locale with a broad brush.

And that is why this thing called friendship, this thing called community, this thing called society is never a foregone conclusion.

How does that fit into Augustine's framework? He was full of self-loathing.

chapter of my book, it's called on misplaced meaning and forgiveness, that as these traditional touchstones of meaning in modern life and, but also across human history, things like friendship, family, faith, they have been on the decline in recent decades.

Judgment is like a free throw in basketball.

Nobody can perfect the exact same motion, even the greatest professionals, who might have a free throw rate of 90%. No one can recreate the exact same motion of the hands and arms and wrist and everything else twice in a row.

There's wisdom in the crowd.

A unique event is a repeated event that happens only once.

There is no essential difference between unique events and repeated events, except that unique events don't recur.

I've said throughout, including in my book.

It's called Chasing Hope, A Reporter's Life.

You might think that a book whose subtitle is A Reporter's Life would be called something like Chasing Truth or Chasing the Facts, not Chasing Hope.

And I do think that we've overdone the despair and that a little dollop of hope can help us actually address all these challenges, which are very real and around us.

I'm not a kind of Pangolassian optimist that everything is gonna work out.

I don't think that people really appreciate just this stunning material and moral progress of our lifetimes.

There's enough in there to pound Michael Cohn on terrible things he has said about Trump.

You know the book Noise as premature If I had been 20 years earlier that's not what I would have done Having identified the problem of Noise I would have started the research program on Noise and given talks about it And thought about it and written articles about it But I started this thing very late I started it in my 80s and you just don't have time This in a serious sense is a book that came too early End quote

One of my favorite all time books is a book called Expert Political Judgment which is by a guy called Phil Tatt that lock he was a professor at UC Berkeley did 20 years of research on expert opinion.

And his general question over 20 years following 28,000 forecasts with 84,000 scenarios which he classified when the forecast was made not retroactively his general conclusion was experts have about the accuracy of dot throwing monkeys.

And there's a consumer version of this book called future battle that Dan Gardner wrote but the original book is worth reading to understand when experts are right or wrong

You know, I was working on a sequel to Supreme Ambitions based on the Dobbs term with a leak and an assassination temp, but I've gotten a little stymied on that.

The book is called UFO, the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here and out there.

I got interested because I began to hear serious people talk seriously about this subject.

There was this blockbuster reporting by the New York Times and Politico in 2017 around the existence of a then-unknown Pentagon UFO study program.

There were reports at that time also of encounters by Navy pilots, Navy aviators around things that they could not explain, craft that moved in ways that they did not understand.

John Brennan gave an interview in December 2020 to a DC journalist named Tyler Cowan where John Brennan said, there's stuff out there that we don't know what it is.

It's a great title.

Raven Rock, the story of the US government's secret plan to save itself while the rest of us die.

Those are the kinds of Big Bets that I write about that we need in the world. And right now, it's absolutely not happening in climate.

I think John Kerry's been the hero of the cop to the extent that anything could be said to be a hero of the cop.

So, big talk, big talk, the idea of like, let's just let capitalism take care of it. That's what they seem to say.

The Psychology of Money, has sold almost 4 million copies since its release in 2020.

And I was delighted to see or interested to see that you specifically refer to two people who the Southern District of New York prosecuted, former member of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs, Rajat Gupta and the greatest Ponzi schemer of all time, Bernie Madoff.

Madoff is a really interesting character because a very overlooked part of the Madoff story is that back in the early 1980s, Madoff was an extremely successful businessman from the legitimate part of his business.

I wrote the second book, "Betrayal", because I wanted to establish the history of what happened on January 6th and the months leading up to it.

And that's where I found all these fun factoids in doing research for the book.

I've written two books about this, The Voting Wars and Election Meltdown, both of which chronicle the steep rise in election litigation in this country ever since the disputed presidential election of 2000 that culminated in the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore.