Thursday assorted links

by  Tyler Cowen

1. Exclamation mark inflation.

2. “There is nothing a contrarian crowd hates more than a real contrarian, a person who breaks ranks with the group.”

3. How accurately do paintings depict lightning? (NYT)

4. “I expected a kind of Spanish Inquisition!”  At least at the time.

5. “Today I am one of the only active Anglo-Saxonists of color in the native-English speaking world.”

6. Can France build its own MIT?

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