I do like it when I top the lists...
TDE editors put together the best econ/history books for the year, and my review of Johan Norberg's Peak Human (#1281328) made #1 -- though I'm not actually sure it's an ordered list, more like I happened to be the first entry, perhaps...?
This is what the editors had to say:
Joakim Book reviewed a big new book for our 2026 reading list: Peak Human by Johan Norberg, which traces the rise and fall of seven of history’s greatest civilizations and shows how openness to ideas, trade, and human exchange has driven human progress.
Norberg argues that golden ages—from Athens and Rome to the modern Anglosphere—flourished when societies were open and free, and declined when they closed in on themselves. His long view of history connects economic, cultural, and political forces to ask whether our own era can sustain its peak rather than slip into stagnation.
"Read Joakim’s review to learn more about Peak Human and why it’s one of the books worth your time in 2026.""Read Joakim’s review to learn more about Peak Human and why it’s one of the books worth your time in 2026."
Some other nice entries among the 7... including our Bitcoin friend Kenneth Rogoff (#1087308), who's Our Dollar, Your Problem is a pretty great book (I reviewed it for BM Print's latest issue), and Mike Bird's The Land Trap that's in my Amazon cart as we speak.
Abundance of Caution may have to go on my list. Covid is the collective delusion of my lifetime. Worse than 9/11 and Iraq, imo.
I'm surprised Nate Silver wrote a byline supporting it. I thought he was pretty mainstream media.
Totally.
No, Nate has gotten a tad radicalized. I listen to his podcast with that Maria lady, and she's a twat, but you can tell between the lines sometimes that Nate has gotten based.
Or I'm just dreaming. Not sure
Well that's quite nice to hear. In my opinion, COVID should radicalize anyone who wants to be honest about statistics and data.
(Radicalize may be too strong a word. At the very least, it should move anyone to seriously distrust the unholy triangle of mainstream media, government bureaucracy, and regime-approved academics.)
Someone with as keen a nose for +EV as Nate should definitely see that there was something afoul in the plandemic.