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An Interview with Matt Murray, Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal

Eric WallachFebruary 15, 2020February 15, 2020

“I don’t have a byline anymore, but what I’m doing now is as big a thrill as anything I’ve ever done.”

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A Conversation with Alain Bertaud

Eunice ParkFebruary 10, 2020February 10, 2020

On scooters, shrinking cities, and the future of urban development.

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An Interview with David French, Senior Editor at The Dispatch and Time Columnist

Eric WallachJanuary 29, 2020February 3, 2020

“I would bet that in most of your classes, there’s a glaring void and a lack of a theologically conservative, as opposed to politically conservative, religious point of view.”

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An Interview with Luigi Zingales, Director of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State

Eric WallachJanuary 25, 2020January 25, 2020

“When I grew up, for instance, I learned never to send a check in the mail because it would be stolen and cashed by someone else.”

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An Interview with Carlos Restrepo

Pablo Trujillo ÁlvarezJanuary 22, 2020January 22, 2020

“Those who protest aren’t losing anything, the ones who lose are we who work, who produce, and they aren’t producing anything in their marches, other than harms and damages.”

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An Interview with Yale World Fellow Cristina Velez Valencia

Christian Martinez ContrerasJanuary 21, 2020January 21, 2020

“It’s really easy to think you know everything because you went to a conference or because you read a paper. That doesn’t mean you know about everything.”

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A Conversation with Benjamin Wittes: On the “LOL, nothing matters” Presidency and the Omnipresence of Politics

Julia HornsteinJanuary 17, 2020January 17, 2020

“I think my job is to be as good a lawyer as the best lawyers. And to be as good a journalist as the best journalists. And I fail at both on a regular basis, but that is the job.”

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Development and Democracy in a Shrinking World: An Interview with Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik

Demirkan CokerJanuary 14, 2020January 14, 2020

“It is much easier to say, “do X regardless” than to say, “do X if circumstances are such-and-such, do Y if they are such-and-such, and Z otherwise.”

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