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Trust and Trickery: A Conversation with Mathew Crawford

Good, bad, and ugly. And a must-watch

This story is about my conversation with Mathew Crawford. The conversation was recorded a few weeks ago (late May), and I am glad to be finally publishing it, with apologies to Mathew for the delay.

This is one of those interviews that you just have to listen to as it flows. The first hour is a sparkly philosophy hour, and the second hour is, to my senses, also a philosophy hour but that is where it also gets to the intensity of the plot, the overall shared concerns, agreements, disagreements, and the differences between Mathew’s battle style and mine. The second part starts approximately at 1:11:00.

I originally wanted to include proper written analysis, as in, here is what Mathew thinks, here is what I think, here’s where we agree, here’s where we disagree, here’s why, blah blah blah. But I can’t. It all just hurts too much. It’s similar to how I can’t write an “analytical piece” about the war in Ukraine. I just can’t do it. My people, on both sides!  In tears and blood. So what a…

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