- What’s the point of money?
- Want Trump to let you out of prison? (1) Be a corrupt politician convicted of selling offices for “campaign funds,” (2) Note that your enemies are Trump’s enemies, and (3) Appear on Fox while Trump watches.
- Los Angeles tries to take back the data commons. Uber objects at this threat to its business model of profiting from data.
- Madeline Albright on how to respond to tyranny and populism
- “Our [American] institutions lost the capacity to mold character and have become platforms for performance instead.“
- Here are 7 interesting visions of how the Netherlands might adapt to extreme (+2-10m) seal level rise. I am glad to see several in which Amsterdam is an island in a tidal lagoon.
- 100 ideas for better living
- Is there a science to better marriage?
- Why we need rules
- …and why we need freedom: “Modern liberalism fits the modern world of high human capital better than the old rightish model of dim-witted peasants properly led by the aristocracy or the old leftish model of gormless proletarians properly led by The Party. If ever there was a time to let people go, and to have a go, it is now, when they are so obviously ready for a liberal autonomy. Yesterday, one might put it, was the time for the aristocracy or the state. Now is the time for liberalism.”
H/T to BZ