This discussion between Paul Dragos Aligica, Jeff Frank, and Clay Routledge is about the “Three City Problem” of modern life, which I first tried to articulate in this essay in WIRED Magazine in 2022. If you don’t have time to read the essay first, you’ll pick up on the theme early on in the video—Bill Gonch, the moderator, does an excellent job laying out some of the basic ideas.
(Please note that there is always a transcript attached to the videos that I publish here, but they are AI-generated through Substack… so I can’t guarantee the transcript accuracy.)
The Interlocutors
Paul Dragos Aligica, Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Paul Dragos Aligica is KP.M.G Professor of Governance at the University of Bucharest, a Senior Research Fellow in the F. A.Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he teaches in the graduate program of the Economics De…
