Recent articles
May 17, 2026
Oligarchs, Poligarchs and Foligarchs
an update on people who control great wealth
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 16, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 15, 2026
Why is pitching in baseball more strenuous?
Remembering the National League, 1962-1968
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 14, 2026
Working on the AI Tutor
Showing how I converse with Claude.
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 13, 2026
Zionism and anti-Zionism
It is often about more than Israel
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 12, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 11, 2026
Robert Pozen on AI financial gimmicks
paying for distribution
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 10, 2026
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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May 9, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 8, 2026
My Socratic Treatise on Political Psychology
formerly known as an AI tutor
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May 7, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 6, 2026
Political Psychology AI Tutor, update
the current version
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May 5, 2026
Lorenzo Warby on Feminization
Invoking Benenson
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May 4, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
May 3, 2026
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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May 2, 2026
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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May 1, 2026
Two UATX videos
a commercial and a talk by Ben Shapiro
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April 30, 2026
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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April 29, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 28, 2026
A Theory of Political Extremism
The urge to justify violence
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 27, 2026
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
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 26, 2026
The Eradicator Faction?
I am unusually fearful these days
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 25, 2026
AI tutor update, 4/25
another conversation with the AI tutor
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 24, 2026
The Politics of Nature vs. Nurture
why is the debate so politically charged?
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 23, 2026
Public Choice Links, 4/23/2026
Judge Glock on airport security; Michael Magoon on institutions; Ed West on litter in Britain; Deirdre McCloskey on institutions
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 22, 2026
College Degree Requirements
should there be a minimum time requirement?
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 21, 2026
AI tutor--next version
The first one was too verbose
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April 20, 2026
Culture Links, 4/20/2026
Tove K on religion; Freya India on social media and feminization; Simon Cooke on social collapse; Steve Stewart-Williams on men vs. women on casual sex
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 19, 2026
Clueless Colleges Closing
Because of a cash crunch
arnoldkling.substack.com
April 18, 2026
Money and the Economy
An inexhaustible source of disputes
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