Please consider subscribing to support our work and gain access to paid content, including bonus episodes like this one, essays, and Q&A features. Shadi and Damir finished 2021 both writing about COVID—Damir ruminating about what the pandemic has done to us and how we might recover, and Shadi trying to understand the psychology of on the fringes of both the left and the right as public health gets polarized.
In this end-of-year bonus episode, they discuss their writing process, how education begets irrationality, and whether we should go out of our way to understand the unvaccinated.