Articles by barry-cotter
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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)

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Why Have Books Disappeared from Many ELA Curricula? (curriculuminsightproject.substack.com)

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I do nothing and it is breaking me (reddit.com)

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Henry Kissinger Undergraduate Thesis (dicklesworthstone.github.io)

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We Too, Are Elves (edrith.co.uk)

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In Defence of Online Anonymity (thecritic.co.uk)

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Austerity for Fertility (betonit.ai)

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Predictable Property Crime Is a Policy Failure (twitter.com/kelseytuoc)

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My Father's Instant Mashed Potatoes (astralcodexten.com)

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Unyoke the Sciences from the Humanities (thedispatch.com)

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Some Self-Paced Kids Move Fast (oaklandlearn.org)

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Algebra Gatekeepers: Schools deny advanced math to the highest-scoring students (educationprogress.org)

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The Only Birthrate Strategy That Worked, & the Need for Strong Pronatalism (twitter.com/morebirths)

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Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back (marginallycompelling.com)

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Speedrun (educationprogress.org)

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The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018) (bbc.com)

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Get Out of School as Fast as You Can (educationprogress.org)

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The Demographic Future of Humanity: Facts and Consequences [pdf] (upenn.edu)

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People Get Good at Their Jobs Through Practice (betonit.ai)

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"Stand and Deliver" Revisited (reason.com)

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College English Majors Can't Read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)

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Why Did DeepMind Solve Protein Folding? (jakefeala.substack.com)

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Ships Escaped the Great Stagnation (worksinprogress.news)

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The Joy Is Not Optional (substack.com)

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Notes Towards a Sex-Realist Feminism (thingofthings.substack.com)

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Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s – despite 98% tax rates (taxpolicy.org.uk)

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From Oversight to Overkill (2023) (astralcodexten.com)

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China Chokes on High-Density Sprawl (cnu.org)

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[flagged] The Female Gaze (maryharrington.co.uk)

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Testosterone gave me my life back (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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What's Wrong with the "What's Wrong with Men" Discourse (conorfitzgerald.com)

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The Merits of Unified Land Ownership (worksinprogress.news)

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Things I Learned from 5k Years in an Alternate Universe (2013) (slatestarcodex.com)

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"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)

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"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring

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What Women Want (katrosenfield.substack.com)

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Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject (lesswrong.com)

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The Future of Education (justinmath.com)

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My School Experimented with 'Education Equity.' It Failed (thefp.com)

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Conquest and Liberation of Academia (overcomingbias.com)

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50 years of rising educational attainment, no gain in actual skills (maximum-progress.com)

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No One Rebuilt Old OkCupid (musingsandroughdrafts.com)

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Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings (paulbloom.net)

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Modern Fantasy is RPG material, not myth making (twitter.com/scholars_stage)

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Harvard Students Are Better Than You (tracingwoodgrains.com)

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[flagged] What climate activists won't tell you about protecting the planet (zionlights.substack.com)

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Impact of PhD Studies on Mental Health–A Longitudinal Population Study (hhs.se)