Recent articles
April 9, 2026
AI Links,4/9/2026
Ethan Mollick on the user interface; Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha on AI as middle management; Noah Smith on jobs as bundles; Mary Harrington against AI education
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April 8, 2026
Claude explains John Wallis to me
I 'vibe-read" a long PDF
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April 7, 2026
The Ambiguity Factor
Coping with the unknown
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April 6, 2026
North, Weingast, and Wallis
The most under-rated model of political order
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April 5, 2026
The Moral Dyad
The most under-rated model in social psychology
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April 4, 2026
Some UATX entrepreneur-students
trying to have it all
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April 3, 2026
Why do Financial Intermediaries Exist?
Economic models assume them away
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April 2, 2026
Why so much stock market trading?
one of the important economic puzzles
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April 1, 2026
Fertility Links, 4/1/2026
Michael Magoon on suburbanization and the Baby Boom; Poppy Sowerby on male immaturity; Rachel Lu on Trump Accounts; Bethany Mandel on America vs. large families
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March 31, 2026
AI and research papers
the future is here (pretty much)
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March 30, 2026
Public Choice Links, 3/30/2026
Mike Munger on public choice; Tyler Cowen vs. the Giving Pledge; David Friedman on the Coase Theorem; Ed West on welfare state getting gamed
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March 29, 2026
Political Psychology Links, 3/29/2026
Kurt Gray and others on assigning victim status; Dan Williams on motivated reasoning; James B. Meigs on the shadow of COVID; Julia Minson on naive realism
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March 28, 2026
AI and higher ed, continued
Hollis Robbins on an AI Czar for a university; The Cosmos Institute co-runs a seminar
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March 27, 2026
Education Links, 3/27/2026
Adam Lehodey on classical schools; Daniel Buck on same; John Bailey on AI in education; Mark McNeilly on same
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March 26, 2026
Tyler Cowen on the state of economics and AI
A dismal outlook on the dismal science?
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March 26, 2026
Economics Links, 3/30/2026
Jess Remington on the plight of the new homeowner; Allison Schrager on retirement savings; Carlos Chavez on Chris Sims; James Pethokoukis on AI enhancing competition; Gad Levanon on business services
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March 25, 2026
AI and Higher Ed
Tyler Cowen on research papers; Kathryn Palmer on AI in a learning management system
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March 24, 2026
Culture Links, 3/24/2026
Andrey Mir on digital orality; Jerusalem Demsas on the messenger class; Daniel Stid on funding for leaders; Aella on women and status
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March 23, 2026
Fantasy Baseball 2026
NFBC vs. Yahoo; staying cool on targets
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March 22, 2026
Reactions to AI
Peter Diamandis on corporate enthusiasm; Susan Pickard on academic hostility; Hollis Robbins on same; V.O. de Mello on moral objections; Claude on hostility to automobile in the 1910s.
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March 21, 2026
My UATX term winds up
what worked and what didn't
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March 20, 2026
Montgomery County, MD School Spending
Some Facts
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March 19, 2026
Economics Links, 3/19/2026
Jerry Muller on Adam Smith; Carlo Ludovico Cordasco on a swindle; Sebastian Galiani on Hal Varian on AI economics; Alex Chalmers on AI and central planning
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March 18, 2026
Culture Links, 3/18/2026
Chris Arnade on public disorder; Yascha Mounk on the contemporary class divide; Jeff Giesea on the humanities revolution; Ted Gioia on childhood today
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March 17, 2026
The AI as an acid-head
My picture of how the models work
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March 16, 2026
Political Psychology Links, 3/16/2026
Philip Howard on Trust and Accountability; Jonathan Leaf on human cooperation; Steve Stewart-Williams on psychology and wokeness; Ruxandra Teslo on equality as a moral impulse
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March 15, 2026
Education Links, 3/15/2026
Colin Redemer on fellowships vs. universities; Carlo Ludovico Cordasco on AI as a paradigm shift for education; Hollis Robbins on some conferences; Claude on me on education and AI
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March 13, 2026
My Wish for Software Engineering
Allow non-coding civilians to build complex systems
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March 12, 2026
Fertility Links, 3/12/2026
Tyler Cowen's hypothesis; Brad Wilcox on early marriage; Tim Carney on fertility as a social phenomenon; Nicholas Eberstadt on Chinese fertility
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March 11, 2026
AI Links, 3/14/2026
Noah Smith on AI as a weapon; Boris Tane on working with Claude Code; Rod Dreher on the fruit fly brain upload; Ryan Fedasiuk on agents
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