Stay ConnectedJournalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis explores the figures in American life who rely on the public’s trust, whether in sports, in business, in the courtroom, or on TV. What happens when that trust erodes and we can no longer agree on what’s fair and what’s not?
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Judges now want us to know they’re human. But maybe we’d be better off if we didn’t know.
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What kind of person makes a neutral referee? It’s not the kind of person you think.
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The authenticator ref absolves everyone of blame. And sometimes generates money out of thin air.
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Everyone hates grammar and ethics cops. Until they need one.
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The government protects us from some dangerous products, but not from others that, over time, ruin countless lives.
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Rage at referees is all the rage in professional sports. Michael Lewis visits a replay center that’s trying to do the impossible: adjudicate fairness.
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Get ready for the launch of Michael Lewis's first podcast, where he takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (in New Jersey). What happens when fairness can't be enforced?
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