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Mentions on MR
On Liberalism
My excellent Conversation with Cass Sunstein (2025-11-27)

Definitely recommended, I could have pulled out many other parts as well.  Again, I am happy to recommend Cass’s new book Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom .

What should I ask Cass Sunstein? (2025-09-13)

Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him soon.  Most of all (but not exclusively ) about his three recent books Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom , Manipulation: What It Is, Why It Is Bad, What To Do About It , and Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do .

Manipulation
What should I ask Cass Sunstein? (2025-09-13)

Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him soon.  Most of all (but not exclusively ) about his three recent books Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom , Manipulation: What It Is, Why It Is Bad, What To Do About It , and Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do .

Imperfect Oracle
What should I ask Cass Sunstein? (2025-09-13)

Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him soon.  Most of all (but not exclusively ) about his three recent books Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom , Manipulation: What It Is, Why It Is Bad, What To Do About It , and Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do .

Campus Free Speech
Sunday assorted links (2024-09-08)

7. New Cass Sunstein book on campus free speech .

Monday assorted links (2024-04-22)

5. New Cass Sunstein book on campus free speech .

How Change Happens
What I’ve been reading (2019-01-15)

4. Cass Sunstein, How Change Happens .  How does social change happen, organized around Cass’s favorite topics, such as nudge and polarization and cascades.  This book doesn’t cover everything, but it is one of the essential introductions to a topic that is very difficult to handle.  And I am happy there is no subtitle.

The Cost-Benefit Revolution
What I’ve been reading (2018-09-09)

2. Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost-Benefit Revolution .  One of the very best Cass Sunstein books, the product of decades of reflection, remarkably well thought out on every page to an extent which is rare these days.

What I’ve been reading and browsing (2018-07-14)

Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost-Benefit Revolution .  Not since the 1970s has cost-benefit analysis been as underrated as it is right now.

Can it happen here?
No, American fascism can’t happen here (2018-03-01)

Politico is running an excerpt from my essay in the new Cass Sunstein book .  Here is one opening bit:

*Can it Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America* (2018-02-15)

It will be out soon, you should buy it .  I’ve only read my own essay in the book, but that one is very good and also original, I haven’t made the argument elsewhere.  Presumably the other essays are better yet, as they feature Jon Elster, Timur Kuran, Samantha Power, Duncan Watts, Noah Feldman, and other luminaries.

*Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America* (2017-11-15)

Due out in March, pre-order here .  The book also has Jon Elster, Timur Kuran, and Jonathan Haidt, dare I call it self-recommending?

*Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America* (2017-06-27)

That is a forthcoming volume edited by Cass Sunstein .  The contributors include Cass, myself, Timur Kuran, Duncan Watts, Martha Minow, Bruce Ackerman, Jack Goldsmith, Geoffrey Stone, and Noah Feldman, among others.  Self-recommending, if anything ever was…

The world according to Star Wars
My Conversation with Cass Sunstein (2016-06-23)

The Force is strong with this one. Cass is by far the most widely cited legal scholar of his generation. His older book, Nudge , and his new book on Star Wars are both best sellers, and he was head of OIRA [Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs] under President Obama from 2009 to 2013. Powerful, you have become.

What should I ask Cass Sunstein? (2016-05-01)

So what should I ask?  I already know which is his favorite novel …and plan to ask about that…and of course we will cover his new forthcoming book The World According to Star Wars .

Valuing life
Jeremy Waldron on Nudge (2014-09-23)

The full piece is here .  By the way, there is a new Cass Sunstein book out, which I have not yet read, Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State .

Arrived in my pile (2014-05-24)

Cass Sunstein, Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State .

Conspiracy theories & other dangerous ideas
What I’ve been reading (2014-03-30)

Cass Sunstein, Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas .

Simpler
*Simpler: The Future of Government* (2013-03-31)

That is from Cass Sunstein (always worth reading), due out April 9 .  Here is a short video , previewing parts of the book, and here is a short review by Sunstein , also relevant.

Going to extremes
Going to Extremes (2009-05-08)

That's the new book by Cass Sunstein and the subtitle is How Like Minds Unite and Divide .  I am a fan of Cass Sunstein and I hope they confirm him for OIRA, but I am not persuaded by the main thesis of this book.

Worst-Case Scenarios
Worst-Case Scenarios (2007-10-11)

That’s the new book by Cass Sunstein , and yes it works through how choice theory should approach disasters and irreversible events.  It is the most accessible presentation of this material to date and it is recommended to anyone who follows issues of global warming, pandemics, asteroid impacts, and the like.

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