Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is July 10th, 2025, and my guest is writer and teacher Lowry Presley of Stanford University. where he is in the Department of Political Science, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Society, and the Stanford Civics Initiative. Our topic for today is his book, The Right to Oblivion, Privacy and the Good Life. Larry, welcome to Econ Talk.

Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I want to tell listeners with children, we may touch on some adult topics in this conversation. You may want to screen this accordingly. We recently had Tiffany Jenkins on Econ Talk to talk about the boundary between the public and private sphere.

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