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By Annie Jacobsen, a very good book.  What would happen if a nuclear weapon actually were launched at the United States?  On the ground?  In...

There are pronounced racial, ethnic, and gender gaps in income in the U.S. We investigate whether these correspond with differences in comp...

That is the title of the new Judith Butler book , focusing mostly on trans issues.  To be clear, on most practical issues concerning trans, ...

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Nnow though it was generally assumed in intellectual circles that the best was yet to be, Bvalltu and his friends were convinced that the c...

From the TxP Progress Prize : But then Tyler asked us, twice in a row , ‘what is your signature product?’ Being honest, we realised even i...

Here is a good Substack essay by  Nicolas Cachanosky , excerpt: Inflation expectations depend on what is expected to happen to the budget ...

We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to study the effect of AI assistance on human legal analysis. We randomly assigned law s...

On the road, I haven’t had a chance to read this paper yet, but I pass it along as a matter of interest: Theory predicts that global econo...

The growth of China’s agricultural subsidies is incredible: now at $300bn per year, according to the OECD. pic.twitter.com/hWEzB7prGf — jo...

Knowing that the proper use of AI will help the Church accomplish God’s work of salvation and exaltation, the Church has issued the followi...

I am setting aside most of the cultural and “macro” issues, and just considering policy, in my latest Bloomberg column .  Excerpt: Conside...

Steve Sinofsky, former president of Microsoft’s Windows division and now a VC, has an excellent deep dive on the EU’s Digital Markets Act (...

I think they still favor the defensive. On the front line they make movement, hence offense, very difficult. In the strategic sense we’ve ...

Thomas is at the Templeton Foundation, here is the link (with transcript), here is one bit: Tom: … So, I know that you’re a voracious...

At first people thought that drones favored defense, since Ukraine, in its war against Russia, was defending successfully with drones.  But ...

Here is an outline of part of my lecture.  I presented “free trade” ( NB : it wasn’t totally free), the classical gold standard, and some mo...

The shock therapy administered by Milei and his economy czar Luis Caputo right after the Dec. 10 inauguration is showing results. In a seve...

a16z has issued the talks from that event , and we are issuing it too, as a bonus episode of CWT.  But note it is shorter than usual, and no...

COVID-19 vaccination reduced the risk of post-COVID-19 cardiac and thromboembolic outcomes. These effects were more pronounced for acute CO...