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A long YouTube video of a talk I gave to a Naval Postgraduate School Class

My friend and former Naval Postgraduate School colleague Ryan Sullivan had me give a talk to his Winter quarter class every year, starting in the late 2010s. In 2021, I couldn’t do it in person and so he had me do it on Zoom. He recorded it and put it on YouTube. It showed up as a 4-year memory today on Facebook. (In 2022, we went back to in-person talks.)

I watched the whole thing. I admit that I like watching myself speak, but I don’t like watching myself speak if I’m doing a lousy job. I watched the whole thing.

The students were great and there was a fair amount of interaction after about the 20-minute point.

One of my little pleasures in talking to NPS students is seeing the wealth of knowledge some of them have. One student had read Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Another student, in the chat function, talked about Federalist #13. This kind of thing just didn’t happen when I was teaching undergrads.

Here’s the link.