Freakonomics Podcast on Slippery Slope Arguments


Camel (A) sticks his nostril below the tent (B), which collapses, driving the skinny finish of the wedge (C) to trigger monkey to open floodgates (D), letting water circulate down the slippery slope (E) to irrigate acorn (F) which grows into oak (G). [Illustration by Eric Kim, from my idea.]

An attention-grabbing episode, with contributors that embody Dahlia Lithwick and me. The audio and transcript are right here, and it is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and elsewhere. Test it out; in case you’d prefer to learn extra, this is my Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope article, a considerably condensed model, a co-written 3-page journal model, and the weblog posts serializing the majority of the article.