Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econ.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is june twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, and my guest is Adam Kirsch. A senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. Adam was last here in January of twenty twenty five. Discussing his book on settler colonialism.

Our topic for today is his latest book, We Want. When mainstream and why it matters Adam, welcome back to Econ Talk. Thanks so much. I'm really glad to be back with you.

Now I have to confess I wasn't interested in the topic of this book, so if you're listening, don't don't don't hang up. Don't don't don't switch off. Because If does it excite you, I think this will be a very interesting conversation. It isn't a very It's a lovely book. It's full of uh things I didn't know.

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