Effective Altruism
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How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way December 21, 2023
A decade and a half ago, the founders of two small Oxford-based nonprofits couldn’t have anticipated that they were launching one of the most significant philanthropic movements in a generation. Giving What We Can was created in 2009 to help people i...
The Dramatic Fall of a Crypto King November 10, 2023
Cross a brilliant, but autistic young man with one of the new religions of modernity, and you get a financial implosion. FTX’s bankruptcy was, of course, a scandal in the world of cryptocurrency, but the great merit of Michael Lewis’s new book, Going...
Effective Altruism Is a Short Circuit August 18, 2023
IN BERTHOLD BRECHT’S PLAY The Caucasian Chalk Circle, an otherwise sensible girl saves a small child when she doesn’t have to. The estate she works on has been overcome by an opposing army, and the wife of the slain governor has run off with a heap o...
Ineffective Altruism January 25, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Ineffective Altruism" by Rebecca Richards, published at Law & Liberty. The desire to make a difference is embedded in the human psyche. The effective altruism movement recently made famous by the exploits of S...
Beware the Do-Gooders December 14, 2022
Gone are the days when villains dressed the part and Wall Street vampires suited up like Gordon Gekko. These days, an American who wants to avoid being swindled needs to watch out for the T-shirt-clad do-gooders spouting the proper politics and pieti...
FTX and the Lust for Wealth December 08, 2022
Financial shenanigans are nothing new, but the celebrated Sam Bankman-Fried and his company, FTX, stand out from other major tricksters of the past generation such as Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling at Enron, Bernie Ebbers at WorldCom, and even the king of...
Fake It ’Til You break It November 18, 2022
On Friday the saga of Elizabeth Holmes will move one step closer to its conclusion. Holmes, founder of the ill-fated health tech company Theranos, was convicted of fraud and conspiracy at the start of this year, and she will now receive her sentence....
