Nasim Taleb on Antifragility

This interview of Taleb previews his book and thoughts on Antifragility that will be coming out this fall. Taleb is both entertaining (and sometimes exasperating) and awfully enlightening, combining some very ancient ideas with some very sophisticated contemporary insights. This presentation, like my recent post of the Gergerenzer talk, comes from the Zurich Minds conference, which appears to be Swiss TED talks.



Wait! Actyally a better, more coherent & easy to follow presentation given @ Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School:

Creepy Stuff from Hungary

This guest blog by a fellow Princeton faculty member Kim Lane Scheppele about the constitutional changes in Hungary is enough to send shivers up one's spine. Alas, it seems Hungary didn't realize that we are supposed to have arrived at the End of History! (Fukuyama, what do you say?). This really surprises me,because before the end of the Cold War, Hungary was (relatively) open, tolerant, and prosperous. What is guiding this return to radical, right authoritarianism?