Miscellaneous
Ökonomenstimme Blog deutschsprachiger Ökonomen
John C. Harsanyi 1975 Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory Favorite critique of Rawls’ Maximin Principle.
www.justiceharvard.org Amazing online, introductory moral philosophy course by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel
The Other Side of History How was it to not be elite in ancient times, but a commoner? This is what Robert Garland very fascinatingly explores in this course. You can watch it for free during a 14-day trial.
Waking Up Meditation App I somehow like it more than Headspace. Waking Up is pricey, but you can ask them to receive it for free if you think you cannot afford it.

Podcasts
Life’s too short and world too interesting to waste much of it not listening podcasts when travelling, waiting, or doing any other boring task. Here a few series I recommend. They can conveniently be subscribed to for free e.g. via Pocket Casts.

• First Tier

Sam Harris – Making Sense I’m a real fan. “explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events.”
80000 hours Podcast about how to have impact where it matters most for the world. Officially it is about how to best do this with your career, but most talks are extremely interesting also if you’re not at all acutely thinking about career choices.
Hardcore History (Dan Carlin) History podcast, extremely interesting and entertaining. Dan Carlin is fascinated – and fascinating – about showing the “extremes of human experience”, and I love his voice.
Common Sense (Dan Carlin) Nice reflections about politics and society

• Others

Freakonomics Radio A relaxing compromise between entertaining and interesting, economic analysis of mostly daily phenomena.
Patterson in Pursuit Find his views often do not withstand deeper scrutiny, but the interviews are often interesting. “Philosophy in the real world. Interviewing intellectuals across the globe. Grappling with the biggest ideas.”

Books

Robert Wright 2009 The Evolution of God. I think can be read freely online on that page.

Peter Singer 2011 (1979) Practical Ethics. Favorite philosopher – or at least I largely embrace the views he advocates on poverty relief, and largely those on speciecism. I find most critiques of his work, which try to justify our egoistic lifestyles, blatantly misguided.

Ignmar Persoon & Julian Savolescu (2015) Unfit for the Future – The Need for Human Enhancement. I find the book contains some quite poor quality philosophy, but their case for the need to make humanity more altruistic through chemical or genetic means – is just extremely fascinating and I find it all in all actually quite pertinent, presuming that we find the technical means for it. Very interesting public policy questions arise from the topic too.

Jonathan Haidt (2012) The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion.

Some further resources I find interesting – still randomly mixed

Not really read yet but topicwise so interesting that a preliminary note here already in order: Rational Reflection, and Rational Altruist.

• First Tier

Slate Star Codex – not trying to describe it; simply terrific blog
Grumpy Economist – I recommend subscribing to his regular, refreshing newsletter for your inbox

• Others

Economic Logic – Telling subtitle “There is Economics in everything”

www.env-econ.net – Blog of Economists on Environmental and Natural Resources

www.TED.com (great also the smartphone app); besides quite a few presentations by boring smooth-talkers there are many really thought-provoking ones.

Librivox.org – Free Public Domain Audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world

foraus.ch – Forum Aussenpolitik – Think Tank für eine konstruktive Schweizerische Aussenpolitik

Batz.ch – Das Forum für Schweizer Wirtschaftspolitik