Tyler Cowen

I just don't know.

I don't think it's that impressive a job to be an international journalist.

Like, what does it pay people now?

He did some good things later on, but most of his early life...

He's a failure, and then ask the Irish, getting back to Patrick, ask the Irish and people from India what they think of younger Churchill, and you'll get an earful.

Like his real great achievement, I don't know how old he was exactly, but it's quite late in his life.

And until then, he's a destructive failure.

There was no one on Twitter to tell him, hey Winston, you need to rethink this whole Irish thing.

And today there would be.

Sam, Sam will do it, right?

Sam will tweet at Winston Churchill, got to rethink the Irish thing.

And Sam is persuasive.

Maybe, but again, you know, like what does the equilibrium look like when everything changes?

But clearly he was an impressive guy, especially given how much he drank.

Well, Jefferson and Hamilton, they're founders, right?

And they were pretty young at the time.

You can do great things when you're founding a country in a way that just cannot be replicated later on.

Putting aside the current year, which I think is weird for a number of reasons, but I think mostly we have had impressive candidates and most of the US bureaucracy in Washington I think is pretty impressive.

generals, national security people, top people in agencies, people at Treasury, people at the Fed, and I interact with these groups, like, pretty often.

Overall, they're impressive, and I've seen no signs they're getting worse.