Articles by barry-cotter
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We Won't "Just Hang Out" (borretti.me)

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Mosquitoes Are a Choice (tommylong.com)

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The Roots of the UK's New Censorship Agency (effort.news)

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France and the Limits of Liberalism (noahpinion.blog)

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France's Imaginary Austerity (quillette.com)

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The Rule of Law versus the Rule of Rights (cambridge.org)

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More Debt, Less Problems: E.U. Debt Is Good (noelmaurer.com)

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GDP: The Only Number That Matters (vox.com)

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The Salvation of Susan Pevensie (dougwils.com)

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Trope-a-Dope (escapistmagazine.com)

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Verifiable Domains Will Eat the World (twitter.com/jon_stokes)

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The Cognitive Barrier to Teaching (educationrealist.substack.com)

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[BOOK REVIEW] The Escape Artist (astralcodexten.com)

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Jason Arday Did a Lot of Harm (etanaedelman.substack.com)

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Give Up on Your Creative Dreams (russellwalter.substack.com)

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An Editor's Guide to Spotting AI Writing (capx.co)

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Y Combinator is doing things (twitter.com/jasonfreedman)

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[STORY] A Realistic Scenario (twitter.com/aisafetymemes)

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How do you make a 250x better vaccine at 1/10 the cost? Develop it in India (owlposting.com)

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The global fertility freefall: trends, drivers and uncertainties (sciencedirect.com)

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The Liberal Turn Against Free Speech (twitter.com/phl43)

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The Institute Behind Taiwan's Chip Dominance (asteriskmag.com)

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The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth (effort.news)

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Eight Myths About Architecture Refuted (bensouthwood.co.uk)

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Cambridge University's Disgrace (fakenous.substack.com)

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The Closure of the Internet (arctotherium.substack.com)

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The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal (compactmag.com)

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Ceuta's Camp of the Saints Moment (firstthings.com)

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We're Suing the Makers of I-Ready (educationprogress.org)

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The Ultimate Horse: Selective Breeding Has Gone to the Limits of Biology (worksinprogress.co)

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The Loch Ness Monster Was Real (kylesaunders.substack.com)

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Important Null Results in Development Economics (voxdev.org)

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Parasite Load (benlandautaylor.com)

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Much of Philosophy Today Is Self-Indulgent (walterveit.substack.com)

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Europe Is a Country (noelmaurer.com)

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I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mask (dispatchesfromtheautismwars.substack.co...

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Suffering (aaronbergman.net)

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What makes good magnet programs attractive? (educationprogress.org)

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The Nudge Unit (UK Internal Propaganda Operations) (pimlicojournal.co.uk)

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Explicit Instruction Works. Education Schools Just Won't Admit It (aei.org)

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What's Wrong with American Studies? (radicallypragmatic.org)

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Visaism (Part 1): India as a Waiting Room (twitter.com/samyak128)

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Why Do Autistic People Talk Like Animé Villains? (dispatchesfromtheautismwars.substack.co...

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Orson Scott Card Has a Secret Novel (twitter.com/orsonscottcard)

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[LITERARY CRITICISM] The 'Screwfly Solution' Solution: Bi-Sexuality (gwern.net)

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Britain: A Cautionary Tale for America (noahpinion.blog)

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Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract (buildwithtract.com)

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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)