Articles by barry-cotter
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If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)

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Stanford's new freshman curriculum illustrates what's wrong with college (hottakes.space)

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[STORY] Samsara (slatestarcodex.com)

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Mea Maxima Culpa (ozybrennan.substack.com)

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The (Fake) Long Decline of Fertility (lymanstone.substack.com)

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Britain's Brain Drain, Measured in Mathematical Olympians (substack.com)

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Politics in the Age of NGOs as Arms of State Censorship (twitter.com/arctotherium42)

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All Non-drone Militaries are Obsolete (noahpinion.blog)

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Yes, Europeans Are Poorer Than Americans (noahpinion.blog)

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Academics Need to Wake Up on AI (popularbydesign.org)

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Hobson vs. Hansen and the Decline of D.C. Schools (educationprogress.org)

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Healthcare Price Transparency (marginalrevolution.com)

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What I Did In The Hedonium Shockwave, by Emma, aged 6 and a half (ozybrennan.substack.com)

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Social Credit (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Learn SQL Through Games (substack.com)

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An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the Largest Amish Community (thepsmiths.com)

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The Bureaucrats Won't Be Toppled: Revolts No Longer Work (unherd.com)

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Education research is weak and sloppy. Why? (theargumentmag.com)

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How Australia Stopped the Boats (worksinprogress.co)

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DExit: The Three Trillion Dollar Corporate Exodus Almost No One Is Talking About (twitter.com/amuse)

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Daycare Illnesses (ninapanickssery.com)

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Put Down Your Phone and Embrace Bookish Snobbery (thatvastvariety.substack.com)

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We Have Been Underestimating Children (twitter.com/teachthemx3)

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[STORY] Watching Abandoned Toddlers as the End Approaches (tumblr.com)

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How Censorship Seized America (unherd.com)

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Why the US Can't Have Nice Things, Part 2 (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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The Case for Economic Growth as the Path to Human Wellbeing (lantpritchett.org)

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Aristocracy and Hostage Capital (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

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The Machiavellian Maze (robkhenderson.com)

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How to Fail Like Puerto Rico (substack.com)

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China and the Future of Science (scholarstage.substack.com)

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My Willing Complicity in "Human Rights Abuse" (ussri.substack.com)

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The Dumbing Down of Advanced Placement Tests (educationnext.org)

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Our Experience with I-Ready (moultano.wordpress.com)

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Europe's Rigid Labour Markets Are an Economic Death Sentence (economicforces.xyz)

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SEIU Delenda Est (astralcodexten.com)

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Citizen's Assemblies: Less Accurate Than Tossing a Coin [pdf] (policyexchange.org.uk)

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[STORY] Editors Don't Want Male Novelists (woman-of-letters.com)

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Equality as a Consolation Prize (writingruxandrabio.com)

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The Triumph of the Moon: Ronald Hutton (thepsmiths.com)

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Writing for LLMs So They Listen (gwern.net)

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The Decline of Confidence in Higher Education (fire.org)

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Why Does America Feel Worse Than Other Countries? Crime (noahpinion.blog)

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The Astronaut's Lament (alexanderwales.com)

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Rented Virtue (minutes.substack.com)

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How Africa Works: Joe Studwell Turns to Africa (global-developments.org)

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[flagged] Tenure Is a Total Scam (2023) (betonit.ai)

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Echoes (thelehrhaus.com)

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Imprison Younger Offenders Longer (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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School Is Worse for Children Than Social Media (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)

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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks (publishersweekly.com)

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Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism (worksinprogress.co)

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The Uncomfortable Truths About Immigration (alexanderkustov.substack.com)

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Engineering as Humanity's Highest Achievement (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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Oxfam Serves Up a Lot of Dodgy Statistics (noahpinion.blog)

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Why Young Danes Are Still Having Sex (spectator.com)

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[REVIEW] Very Important People – Ashley Mears (thepsmiths.com)

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A Plea for Silicon Valley to Enter Politics (loeber.substack.com)

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35 Theses on the WASPs (scholarstage.substack.com)

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George H. Butler and the Limits of Being Right (secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com)

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Why one small American town won't stop stoning its residents to death (archiveofourown.org)

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The Accountability Trap: Why School Systems Abandon Gifted Students (wendyx3.substack.com)

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Haters Are the Best Marketers: Mentava as Case Study (twitter.com/nielshoven)

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What's Wrong with the West? (spectator.com)

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The Renaissance Book That Heralded Growth (worksinprogress.co)

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Mathematics Training Options (reddit.com)

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Cultural Institutions Are Erasing Christianity (thecritic.co.uk)

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America Has to Feel Fair (substack.com)

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Should We Ban Phones in the Classroom? (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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The Fight Inside Amnesty International over Its Hamas Report (thefp.com)

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Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost? (newyorker.com)

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Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore (city-journal.org)

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The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment (moultano.wordpress.com)

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The Phone Ban Saved High School (nymag.com)

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The Lost Generation (compactmag.com)

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In the UK the Free Press is for Adults Only (thefp.com)

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South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity (worksinprogress.co)

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Book Notes: The Technological Republic (substack.com)

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Other People Might Just Not Have Your Problems (thingofthings.substack.com)

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$1 That Doubles Everyday (twitter.com/magnushambleton)

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I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round (mentava.com)

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Is a Master's in Education Worthwhile? No (the74million.org)

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Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? (newyorker.com)

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We Are Repaganizing (firstthings.com)

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The Great Downzoning (worksinprogress.co)

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The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market (ryanpuzycki.com)

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Benedict Anderson: Humane Nationalist (unherd.com)

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Policy Concerns in an Era of Low Fertility: Comparison and Intensive Parenting [pdf] (brookings.edu)

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Why Education Can Never Be Fun (nomoremarking.com)

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Those Who Walk Away from Hogwarts (fiddlersgreene.substack.com)

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Doughnut Economics (noahpinion.blog)

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If You Meet the Singaporean on the Road (substack.com)

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Sources Say Bay Area House Party (astralcodexten.com)

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The End of Credentialism (cremieux.xyz)

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Why the NIH Should Spend Billions to Give Me Futuristic Real Fake Tits (parakeet.substack.com)

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Why Is Taiwan the Poorest Developed Economy? (twitter.com/jukanlosreve)

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The Bluesky-Ization of the American Left (noahpinion.blog)

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Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk (scholars-stage.org)

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Defining Deviancy Up (scottsumner.substack.com)

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How to Save DC's Metro (statecraft.pub)