* “Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper.” Obvious, but one sees many, even generally smart people, blaming everything under the sun apart from supply restrictions. Overall, “Americans Are Mad About All the Wrong Costs”—we should be wrong about housing costs, because housing costs are the biggest part of most people’s budgets. Yet we’re getting what we’ve voted for, for decades: we oppose new housing anywhere near us, and then costs rise. I’ve read claims that voters are like children, unhappy when the things we collectively vote for come to pass and harm us in predictable ways.

* “Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul: Real learning has become impossible in universities. DIY programs offer a better way.” To me the hardest part is finding books worth reading deeply. Most classics I find unsatisfying.

* “You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill” (wsj, $). Consolidation in healthcare is an underrated problem. Oligopolies are sprouting while regulators are asleep. Hospitals and insurance companies have great lobbyists.

* The U.S. has not pursued wise nuclear policy.

* Could a vaccine eliminate or dramatically reduce strep throat? One of these truly important things that gets subsumed beneath the typical, not-important headlines.

* “Deterring a Taiwan Invasion: There might still time to stave off WWIII.” Also: “Taiwan is the new Berlin.”

* “People Unlike Me: Political ideologies tend to suit the people who promote and believe them, and not suit others. This makes governance difficult.” A useful admission that policies good for one group (like drug liberalization) may be bad for others (like people with poor conscientiousness or impulsiveness issues).

* “Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry.” Obvious, and yet here we are.

* “More Crowding, Fewer Babies: The Effects of Housing Density on Fertility.” On especially the failure to build spacious multi-family.

* Arguments for parent control of education.

* Claim that “China Is Losing the Chip War: Xi Jinping picked a fight over semiconductor technology—one he can’t win.” I don’t know enough to evaluate this for truth.

* “Putin Is Running Out of Time to Achieve Breakthrough in Ukraine.” Good.

* “Do grant proposal texts matter for science funding decisions? A field experiment.” Maybe not that much.