• A run for cover: LA’s fires and insurance

  • Jan 13 2025
  • Durée: 26 min
  • Podcast

A run for cover: LA’s fires and insurance

  • Résumé

  • Among the lessons emerging from California’s devastating fires is the idea that insurers cannot price risk on past data: the climate-change future is already here. Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary, has some misguided notions about women on the battlefield (10:10). And examining children’s literature: should it be all sugar and spice—or more real-world, where not everything’s nice (19:28)?


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