Tyler Cowen broke the sad news that Walter Grinder passed away. Tyler was one of the many intellectual protégées of Walter- certainly the most prominent and successful, the one with whom Walter felt the stronger bond, as he met Tyler when the latter was a teenager. But Walter, as the engine behind the Institute of Humane Studies, played a similar role to many, whom he gently and wisely steered in several new avenues of research. Never underestimate the role of the person who puts a good book in your hands. Particularly if he imagines you could expand your views thanks to it and perhaps use it to see the world from perspectives you did not imagine before.
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