Allen Mendenhall on the history of economic thought; Noah Smith on why no flying cars; Michael Magoon on age and inequality; Mark McNeilly on soft technology
Martin Gurri on crazy beliefs; Dan Williams lets AI review his book on crazy beliefs; Francis Fukuyama looks back; Carlyn Beccia on status-threatened young men
Melanie Phillips on Americastan; Leonard A. Schuette on the New Right’s “civilizationism”; Arthur Herman evaluates the war on terror; Zineb Riboua on radical Islam in the West
JFV on the worldwide decline in fertility; Noah Smith on the general distemper; Rob Henderson on female independence; Scott Sumner on fun as a substitute for children
Ryan Streeter on David Hume on enthusiasm; Mene Ukueberuwa on the unpopularity of capitalism; Robby George on civil discourse; Michael Huemer on George Lakoff
Chad Syverson on productivity; Roger Myerson on the effect on skills; Carlo Ludovico Cordasco on an Acemoglu paper; Christian Catalini and others on verification
The WSJ on mortgage defaults; A committee to advise the Fed on inflation; Andreas Steno Larsen on the rickety market for long-term U.S. bonds; Gad Levanon on unemployment among young college grads
Aswath Damodaran on AI stock valuations; Christopher Mims on world models; Hollis Robbins on AI and privacy; Peter Diamandis on the models’ bad public relations
Rod Dreher on Cluster B; Lorenzo Warby on women in organizations; Stefanie Stantcheva on anger in politics; Steve Stewart-Williams on environmental mismatch
Charles Jones on AI and the economy; Hollis Robbins on higher ed not leading AI; Peter Diamandis on lower ed not leading AI; Erik Brynjolfsson and others on AI displacing some young workers
Lyman Stone and Peter Foreshaw Brooks on social contagion; Simon Maass on the Beat Generation; Moses Sternstein on status competition; Patrick Collison on sources of Silicon Valley ideas
Andrew Hartz and Eric Kaufmann on research funding; Austin Scholar on writing; Matt Continetti on Michigan's pass-fail semester; Ashley Rubin on sociology
Leighton Woodhouse on substack and journalism; Richard Audoly and others on labor's income share; Scott Sumner on monetarism; The Urban Institute on young adults living with parents
Dan Williams on collective delusions; Ilana Redstone on disputes we cannot resolve; Virginia Postrel on America nurturing ambition; Helen Andrews on our race problem
Aaron Renn on populism receding; Robin Hanson on support for world government; Bo Winegard on political beliefs as tribal signals; Daron Acemoglu on economic equality and democracy
Veera M. Rajagopal on using AI to pick content; Jerry Kaplan vs. doomerism; John Cochrane on the AI letter; Timor Kosters and others on an experiment with agents and humans
