You can list to some 1965 lectures by Isaiah Berlin on "the Roots of Romanticism" as podcasts. Very good.
In a nutshell he's saying that in the late 18th century, after thousands of years, Western thought finally hit the ceiling of rational inquiry. The Romantic movement is just
you keep asking Why , one after the other , climbing branch by branch up the hierarchy of ends towards the ultimate reasons, and you can sense you're getting near the top when it starts to sting each time you ask another one -- it feels shameful to ask why you would do these
Expanding on yesterday's single-sentence macro model, here's a longer version, trying to explain the key themes of macroeconomics as exchange among farmers in a village:
tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-10-…
One sentence macro model: On the way out the door, every farmer's wife says to every farmer, "the weather's looking bad so don't buy as much at the market this week, but also don't sell our crops for less than the usual price."
One sentence macro model: On the way out the door, every farmer's wife says to every farmer, "the weather's looking bad so don't buy as much at the market this week, but also don't sell our crops for less than the usual price."
