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Arnold Kling

Economist exploring economics, politics, and the sociology of beliefs.

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Recent articles

Public Choice Links, 5/24/2026
Michael Lind on billionaires funding NGOs; Allison Schrager on people hating billionaires; Bill Galston on a multi-party configuration; Frannie Block on the evil teachers' unions
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Drone Warfare Strategy
Dealing with revolutionary weapons
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Political Psychology Links, 5/22/2026
Rob Kurzban on how we form beliefs; Gad Saad talks his new book; Jeffrey Bilbro on AI and the loss of agency; Dan Williams on leftwing intellectuals and AI
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Culture Links, 5/21/2026
Ed West on Michael Moore; Anuradha Pandey on female privilege; Mary Harrington on media determinism; Andrey Mir on same.
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Paul Romer on information and property rights
interviewed by Nick Schulz
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Education Links, 5/19/2026
Kathleen deLaski on skills employers desire; Maya Sulkin on Alpha school; Brent McCord on the new class divide; Steve Stewart-Williams on left-wing dominance
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Technocratic Economics, 1935 - 1975
a retrospective
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Oligarchs, Poligarchs and Foligarchs
an update on people who control great wealth
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Higher Education Links, 5/16/2026
Glaeser and Cutler on faculty autonomy; The ASU personalized course builder; William Deresiewicz on how colleges should teach; Iván Marinovic on what they are teaching
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Why is pitching in baseball more strenuous?
Remembering the National League, 1962-1968
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Working on the AI Tutor
Showing how I converse with Claude.
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Zionism and anti-Zionism
It is often about more than Israel
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AI Links, 5/12/2026
Jerusalem Demsas on AI as centralizing technology; Mark McNeilly on holding AI to a higher standard; Steve Newman on the state of AI; Dean Ball on regulating AI
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Robert Pozen on AI financial gimmicks
paying for distribution
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Culture Links, 5/10/2026
Lyman Stone on socializing; a story on Proto-Town; Tyler Cowen vs. school phone bans; Razib Khan on the new human evolution paper
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Public Choice Links, 5/9/2026
Alice Evans on sub-Saharan Africa; Daniel Yu on profit-seeking vs. non-profits; JFV on bureaucracy; Ilana Redstone on AI and public discourse
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My Socratic Treatise on Political Psychology
formerly known as an AI tutor
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AI Links, 5/7/2026
Harvard study of AI in the ER; Glenn Reynolds on anthropomorphizing AI's; Gabe Fleisher on regulatory initiatives; Andrei Savine on the last mile problem
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Political Psychology AI Tutor, update
the current version
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Lorenzo Warby on Feminization
Invoking Benenson
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Political Psychology Links, 5/4/2026
Milgram authority experiment still works; Scott Alexander on the futility of debating apps; Ron Capshaw reviews the autobiography of Zayd Ayres Dohrn, and I reminisce about the Jefferson Airplane
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AI Links, 5/3/2026
Peter Diamandis on AI helping entrepreneurs; Mark McNeilly on AI helping students to not learn; Kristian Andersen on the age of agents; Andrey Mir on the Internet enabling AI
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Economics Links, 5/2/2026
Roland Fryer on religion; William Galston on inequality; Tom Feiling on Japan's demographic implosion; Kevin Erdmann on housing market history
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Two UATX videos
a commercial and a talk by Ben Shapiro
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Education Links, 4/30/2026
Hollis Robbins on the tyranny of metrics; Austin Scholar on best practices for using AI; Danielle Shapiro on Poisoned Ivies
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Political Psychology Links, 4/29/2026
Analysis of a chimp war; Elizabeth Corey on tribal hate; James Tilley on Brexit; David Friedman on some books
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A Theory of Political Extremism
The urge to justify violence
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AI and Higher Ed Links, 4/27/2026
Kathleen DeLaski tries an AI sprint; Carlo Ludavico Cordasco on philosophers and AI; Tyler Cowen on college surviving; Alexander Kustov on AI vs. human researchers
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The Eradicator Faction?
I am unusually fearful these days
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AI tutor update, 4/25
another conversation with the AI tutor
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