Sunday assorted links

1. My conversation with High Alpha about Talent, and other matters.

2. David Perell and Johnathan Bi present Rene Girard, transcript here.

3. How cockroach sex is evolving (NYT).

4. Contra an earlier report, there are still payphones in NYC (New Yorker).

5. “The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher entrepreneurship rates from 1910, when records began, until the present as well as a higher prevalence of entrepreneurial traits in the populace.”

6. Your periodic reminder that Germany has betrayed the Western alliance and is doing almost nothing for Ukraine.

7. Ezra on state capacity and the left (NYT).