Friday assorted links

1. “Winning bidder of this lot will have until July 2022 to decide between keeping the NFT or exchanging it for the physical artwork it represents. Only one can be kept, the other one will be destroyed.”

2. My Bloomberg column on why America should have more people, and a hat tip here to Matt Yglesias and his book on one billion Americans.

3. Does Merleau-Ponty just suck?

4. The public health experts’ letter to Pfizer — well-argued or not?  If it were a short undergraduate essay submission, what grade would you give it?

5. Review of the new Apichatpong Weerasethakul movie (NYT).