Friday assorted links

1. NYT Adam Shatz profile of Kamasi Washington.

2. Ryan Avent on how ideological are economists?

3. Excellent TNR review on Tim Leonard’s excellent new book on eugenics and the history of progressive economic thought.

4. The demands made at Oberlin; the president says no to them by the way.

5. “We conclude that the overall economic consequences of the Chavez administration were bleak.”

6. One (American) couple lived off food waste for six months.