Nader
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Nader is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 23, 2023 and September 15, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Into the void stepped Nader, who readily agreed to take over the contract. The resulting book, Unsafe at Any Speed”; “Nader had grander plans. He decided to become a new kind of entrepreneur”; “Nader believed had become too cozy with the businesses it was supposed to regulate”. It most often appears alongside Jimmy Carter, Public Citizens, 1965.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 23, 2023
- Last seen: September 15, 2023
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- 2023 book review contest (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
That’s right: it’s all Ralph Nader’s fault.
To find out, we have to go back to a time before Ralph Nader had even hit puberty—the era of the New Deal.
Ralph Nader was born in 1934 to a pair of Lebanese immigrants in Winstead, Connecticut. Many prominent activists have dramatic origin stories, but not Nader: his family was well-off, and as far as I can tell, he had a happy childhood. The family did, however, have a moralizing strain: when Nader was offered a scholarship to Princeton, his father forced him to turn it down on the grounds that their family could afford to pay5.
Inline links: 5
Some extra praise: Man's Search For Meaning placed 4th; I thought it was a good review of an important book by someone who's clearly thought about these issues a lot. I loved Public Citizen; I had a vague sense that a lot of government happens by lawsuit now and it hadn't always been this way, but I wouldn't have even known where to start in figuring out why and how this happened, and I had always thought of Nader as "that car guy who everyone mysteriously thought was important who then lost the 2000 election", so I'm glad to get more clarity there. Zuozhuan was oddly haunting and I will remember the part about Zichan and the law code for a long time. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes was a discussion of the Piraha (the weird tribe that doesn't seem to have supposedly universal features of language and culture) which gave a great sense of how it might feel to be a primitive rainforest tribe.