It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and Americans Feel Fine
November 21, 2011 at 11:56 AM EST
When I was young, we would be assigned to read books like 1984 in high school. These were viewed as dystopian novels, as cautionary tales. We would have the usual earnest class discussions. Some feared the outcome, some thought it unlikely. But everyone agreed that it would be a really bad thing. Robin Hanson points [...]
