I did a few fun video conversations last week. This is a conversation with Ryan Bourne, Megan McArdle, and Alex Tabarrok on economics and the year of covid. Direct link if the above embed doesn't work. The conversation is occasioned by the publication of Ryan's excellent book Economics in One Virus . I am often asked for recommendations of general readable economics books. (i.e. no equations.) This is a gem. Then I had a nice conversation with Mike Hartmann at The Giving Review , link here with transcript , (slightly edited, please refer to that if you want to quote me. The above is just a screenshot, you have to go to the link). We explored my view that the US should eliminate the whole non-profit business, most of all the tax deductibility of contributions to non-profits, but also (less importantly) the non-profit corporate form. While many non-profits do a lot of good (my employer!) the system has become obscenely perverted, mostly as...