By Lambert Strether of Corrente Too-patient readers, I’ve spent the day recovering from the bout of food poisoning I had last night (which is all that it was, fortunately), and so this Water Cooler is mostly an open thread. However,...
1. Ronan McGovern on Finland and two Baltics. 2. Was housing overbuilt in Nevada? 3. How much of the universe is legible to intelligence? 4. What are the bottlenecks for actually applying evidence to policy decisions? 5. Adrian Wooldridge says...
To engage with the large literature on the economic effects of slavery, we use antebellum census data to test for statistical differences at the 1860 free-slave border. We find evidence of lower population density, less intensive land use, and lower...
The media is in the “If it bleeds, it leads” business. As a result, many pressing social problems and promising initiatives get short shift. Incarcerated populations, such as prisoners and patients of mental health institutions, and the de facto incarcerated,...
The German welfare state is generous but this leads to implicit tax rates for those on welfare that can exceed 100%. Here’s a useful summary from the German newspaper Handelsblatt. (The original is in German, this is a Google translation.)...
How the Zebra Got Its Stripes – and How Humans Stole the Trick The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter Japan’s Olympic athletes will wear outfits designed to block infrared — and the reason is disturbing ZME Science A mysterious monolith appeared in rural...
As expected, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally came out on top in the first round of French elections yesterday, solidifying the country’s move to the right after the European vote earlier in the month. The EU’s three largest countries by...
Yves here. As much as post about UK climate change policy might seem a tad parochial, microcosms can provide insight about macro issues. The fact that this article comes from a financial organ, City A.M., does not necessarily make its...
Conor here: The title of this piece mentions pushing out homeless people, but push them out to where? To sea? It’s hard to know after the Supreme Court effectively allowed for the criminalization of homelessness. At last check, there are...
I am writing this post on a somewhat bumpy plane ride, so I will try doing it without links. Most of the relevant sources you can find through perplexity.Ai, or even on MR itself. Google too. Overall, I am distressed...
