* “Without Belief in a God, But Never Without Belief in a Devil: On The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.” Are you a True Believer?
* “How to discipline kids effectively.” On incentives and behaviorism, among other things. Skinner gets a shoutout.
* “In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock—But the Exact Opposite Happened.” A culture-focused great stagnation essay.
* “Asphalt Wasteland: Maybe parking really does explain the world.”
* “Moderna reveals Claudin18.2 ambitions via cancer vaccine, solid tumor CAR-T combo plans.” Does the tongue count as part of the digestive system? There’s no mention of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma here, alas.
* “The two kinds of progressives: Moralists vs. pragmatists.” I’m wildly on the pragmatist side: “As Democrats have become more upscale, they. . .have become less interested in forming big tent electoral coalitions to maximize the odds of welfare state expansion and more interested in ideological purity and uncompromising moral stands. Because the uncompromising moral stand is more appealing if you are not personally counting on Medicaid expansion to make a concrete difference in your life.” I also have the old-fashioned view that politics is about solving collective problems rather than personal expression.
* “Why Britain doesn’t build.”
* Colorado works to ameliorate its housing crisis by moving housing decisions to the state level and increasing the freedom of landowners to build.
* “Celebrating Marginal Revolution’s 20th Anniversary.” An amazing and tremendous achievement.
* “Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production.” The shift is towards electric arc furnaces and away from blast furnaces.
* The NIMBY tax on Britain and America. (Financial Times, $; Archive Today link). “Supersized costs and bloated durations are not unrelated.” And:
The result of this vicious circle of objections, delays and in some cases outright cancellations of large parts of the projects as the costs mount is that both countries — but especially Britain — are suffering from massive under-delivery on transport infrastructure, causing a huge drag on productivity.
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“How to discipline kids effectively” is whack…withdrawal of attention leads to steady sabotage, hostility, and ultimately degrading how your kids view you as a human being. They’ll treat you like.an animal to exploit instead of a human being, because you don’t pay attention.
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