Links: How to get to more housing, Chinese electric cars are good, trade wars, and more!

* “Are single-staircase buildings the new accessory dwelling units (ADUs)?” The basic goal is to figure out all the legal impediments to housing abundance and knock them all over.

* “I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked.” It’s notable that this story is actually important, and yet barely reported in the media.

* “No One Knows What Universities Are For: Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.” A process that has been underway for decades and that is now largely complete.

* “Your friends are not a representative sample of public opinion: It’s not just Republicans who are at risk of epistemic closure.”

* “China Has Gotten the Trade War It Deserves.”

* “Parking Reform Legalized Most of the New Homes in Buffalo and Seattle.” It’s a good start. Along similar lines, “Let a thousand skyscrapers bloom.” Obvious, and yet still strangely contentious.

* “It’s 2024 and Drought is Optional.” We can solve a lot of problems with technology, if we choose to. The tragedy is choosing not to, and choosing stasis over abundance.

* “Reasons America is headed for a more conservative decade.”

* The Demographic Roots of American Power.

* Are self-driving cars the beginning of the end of private cars? One can only hope. I routinely take Waymo in Phoenix and it’s great.

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