Episode
Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on The Death of Ivan Ilyich
EconTalk · Oct 19, 2026 · 1 h 09 min
What if you did everything right and discovered on your deathbed that you've wasted your life? Rabbi and author David Wolpe talks about Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Weaving Rabbi Wolpe's own brushes with mortality and his years at the bedsides of the dying into Tolstoy's masterpiece, they talk about the lies we tell ourselves about death, our longing for…
