Okay, we've got a great guest for the inaugural episode of the podcast.
Today, I'm speaking with Brian Kaplan.
He's a professor of economics at George Mason University and a New York Times bestselling author.
He's written the myth of the rational voter, selfish reasons to have more kids,
the case against education, and most recently, open borders, the science and ethics of immigration.
Here's Professor Kaplan.
Okay, so from Twitter, Martin asks,
What are you criticized most for being too radical or not radical enough?
I would say I'm definitely criticized for being too radical.
Most of my colleagues are less radical than me, especially the ones that are right down the hall.
In terms of your people that say I'm not radical enough, that's really pretty rare actually.
I think that I've got enough controversial statements under my belt that people focus on that.
I mean, there must be a few people who are annoyed at me for not being radical enough,
but I hardly ever encountered them really.
Okay.
So I think Martin's one of these people because this next question is, um,
he disagrees with you that people wouldn't learn numeracy and literacy if not for school.
He thinks that if it's so useful, people would just learn it automatically.
Do you disagree?
So I don't think I ever said that people wouldn't learn it if not for school.