Fiddler in the Subway
Jun 30, 2010 links, philosophy, reading
Michael Mechanic has an interesting interview up today on Mother Jones with Gene Weingarten: “Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner.” Weingarten has a book coming out entitled Fiddler in the Subway, a collection of essays he wrote for The Washington Post and the WaPo magazine. After you read Mechanic’s piece, come back here to read [...]
Tags: anosognosia, black swan, Dunning-Kruger, epistemology, Errol Morris, Hardy Boys, irony, Joshua Bell, Mother Jones, paralysis, pulitzer, Taleb, Tokyo, uncertainty, violin, Washington Post, Weingarten