Annual booster mailbag

Reconcilable differences, free speech, and why politics should be more like sports

Personally, I love getting shots so I’m excited about the new Covid boosters — just wish I was old enough for the Covid/flu/RSV triple shot.

There’s been a huge victory over lead-laced tumeric in Bangladesh. Peak fossil fuel demand is now forecast to arrive before 2030. Cool new electric cars coming soon. New trailer for The Killer looks so cool (the old John Woo movie of the same name is also cool). I’ve believed forever that investing in target-date retirement funds is the right strategy for most people, but their growing popularity turns out to have macroeconomic stabilizing effects, too. Modern heat pumps work really well!

Now for this week’s questions.

Shreeharsh Kelkar: Matt, what do you think of Patrick Brown's Free Press piece and his conversation with Rob Meyer? In a way, I was delighted by this conversation because it's so rare to see this kind of frank talk but it's also clear that they are talking past each other. Meyer is more interested in whether there was anything there …