Recent articles
July 16, 2026
America 1914-1929: the Red Scare
the next lecture in the series
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July 15, 2026
Using AI to prepare for a seminar on AI
A discussion with ChatGPT
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July 14, 2026
Tyler's Question on Iran
on the objectives of their leaders
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July 13, 2026
Political Economy Links, 7/13/2026
Ryan Fedasiuk AI's global supply chain; AIER on ancient trade; Brian Chau on the Looter Class; Andy Hall on the Democrats' economic targets
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July 12, 2026
The War at home, 1917-1919
the experiment with progressive control
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July 11, 2026
Working with Claude on history lectures
some notes on my approach
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July 10, 2026
American diplomacy, 1914-1929
How we ended up in the war
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July 9, 2026
Education links, 7/9/2026
Nils Gilman on AI and the university; Austin Scholar on status as a motivator; Howard Husock and Tao Tan on foundation money; Gad Levanon on the job recession in higher ed
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July 8, 2026
Modern Military Problems
Or, how to not lose to Iran again
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July 7, 2026
America, 1914-1930
a new lecture series
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July 6, 2026
A Successful AI Application
Doing customer research. Reminiscent of my early Web business.
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July 5, 2026
Not so Great Britain
Alex Tabarrok summarizes the decline; Louise Perry emigrates to Australia
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July 4, 2026
Psychology Links, 7/4/2026
Jason Manning on Duncan Black; Austin Scholar on motivation; Louise Perry on feminism; a paper on negative commenters
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July 3, 2026
America, 1898-1914: arts, letters, and ideas
from William James to Scott Joplin
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July 2, 2026
America, 1898-1914 technology and daily life
lecture 9 in the series
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July 1, 2026
America, 1898-1914: Immigration and Labor Organizing
I meant to post this before I posted lecture 8.
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June 30, 2026
The Democrats *are* the DSA
captured by a revolutionary cadre
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June 29, 2026
There is no AI in Team
When will team apps like Slack go away?
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June 28, 2026
Political Psychology Links, 6/28/2026
Peter Diamandis on disaffected young men; Luke Burgis on close-knit groups; Gabe Fleisher on the unserved majority; Matt Goodwin on control over narrative
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June 27, 2026
Public Choice Links, 6/27/2026
Kyle Saunders on fraud in public programs; Jacob T. Levy on holism vs. liberalism; Joe Lonsdale and Judge Glock on privatizing construction permitting; Hahrie Han on civic associations
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June 26, 2026
AI Links, 6/26/2026
Doc Searls on personal AI; Joshua Gans on the plain-language interface; Holman Jenkins on inevitable surveillance; Peter Diamandis on same
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June 25, 2026
Bryan Caplan on UATX
His observations strike me as spot on
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June 24, 2026
America, 1898-1914: social movements
women's suffrage, social gospel, New Thought, and conservation
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June 23, 2026
Nonprofit Links, 6/23/2026
Nan Ransohoff on the coming philanthropic tsunami; Alex Berenson on nonprofit hospitals; Joe Lonsdale's advice to donors
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June 22, 2026
America, 1898-1914: The Federal Reserve
Why and how it was created
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June 21, 2026
AI links, 6/21/2026
Greg Lukianoff on AI and finding truth; Steven Johnson on cognitive offloading; Scott Alexander's opinions; AI in a bureaucratic setting
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June 20, 2026
The Value of Nothing
The stock market as a consensual hallucination
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June 19, 2026
America, 1898 -1914: Mergers and anti-trust
continuing to work with Claude on my lecture series
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June 18, 2026
Systems Get Gamed
How I explain social decay, particularly in academia
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June 17, 2026
Economics Links, 6/17/2026
Allison Schrager on risk aversion and jobs; and Schrager on the Fed's balance sheet and independence; Matt Yglesias on spectacular stock market wealth; Nicolai J. Foss on the firm/market boundary
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