Thursday assorted links
2. Long, serious study of the Chinese social credit system.
3. Roger Scruton defends wine I call it a critique. Here is another relevant take (NYT).
4. We’ve always been screwed up, by Ezra Klein.
5. Arnold Kling on the intellectual dark web. I would suggest that the critical coverage of that Bari Weiss NYT piece has been weak, most of all under-informed and overly aggregative and showing relatively little familiarity with the people in question, some of whom are excellent and some of whom are not.