The beginning is a very delicate time.

Greetings dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg and this is another edition of the Remnant

podcast. This episode is brought to you by Stamps.com and Conversations with Bill Crystal.

We'll talk more about those in a little bit.

Let's get straight to our guest today who is Tyler Cowan, the Holbert L. Harris professor at George Mason University and director of the Mercada Center.

He's also the author of the Complacing Class, the Great Sagnation and his latest book which he has been working on for quite a while is called Stubborn Attachments.

We'll get right to the conversation and then we're going to have a bit of a conversation, further conversation at the end between Jack and I where we will address various and sundry issues.

But now it's Professor Cowan.

Hi Tyler, welcome to the Remnant.

Thank you for having me.

So you didn't hear me do it but I just did a very lavish introduction of you that I promise you will have no objection to.

Great.

You are the author of many books. I listed some of them but your newest one is Stubborn Attachments.

Why don't you just do what I'm going to ask you the greatest question you can ever ask an author on a book tour.

What's your book about?

Stubborn Attachments is my attempt to defend a free society and give it foundations in reason and logic.

The book is a cross of economics and philosophy.

It speaks out in favor of economic growth and also capitalism.

It's small sea conservative in the sense that it emphasizes sustainability.

It alienates left wingers by attacking the idea of pursuing equality for its own sake.

And I think it somewhat alienates right wingers by being concerned about sustainability of the environment.

It's a short book but I've been working on it actually for 20 years on and off.

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