The Best Laid Plans is about humility: How little we know, how prone we are to make errors and how to improve our thinkiing about politics and policy. Leaning libertarian.
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Mike Bloomberg's gift to Big Tobacco
This graphic takes a little explaining, so bear with me. It tells a story about tobacco policy, smoking rates and the malign influence of billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg.
Let’s begin with news that Philip Morris International...
The life you can save
Photo by Mick Kirchman on Unsplash
In 1971, as many thousands of people were dying from a famine in what is now Bangladesh, the philosopher Peter Singer wrote an essay called Famine, Affluence, and Morality If it is in our power to prevent...
Please, not a moral panic over sports betting
Photo by Heather Gill on Unsplash
I’m not a gambler. I’m lousy at poker and blackjack. Casinos depress me. State lotteries strike me as a waste of money.
But I recently signed up for an account at the online betting app FanDuel, made a $...
In defense of nicotine
This is from the California Department of Public Health. Tell it to Albert Einstein
People have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years — long before the invention of the cigarette, the growth of the global tobacco industry, the pushba...
And now a word from GiveDirectly
Asekon, a Kenyan man who used cash to buy a bike.
This is my 24th weekly post to Substack. I’m donating all revenues to the nonprofit GiveDirectly, and sent them $1,340 a few weeks ago. GiveDirectly sends cash to the world’s poorest people...
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Marc Gunther has been a reporter for 50 years. A senior writer at Fortune Magazine and the author of four books. Marc has contributed to publications including the NYTimes, Washington Post, the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Reason.
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