Thursday assorted links

1. On the conservatism of academics.

2. Saloni on how to speed up science during a pandemic.

3. Ross on what preserves a liberal order (NYT).  I think he is somewhat underrating both inertia and checks and balances, and focusing a bit too much on the margin.  Nonetheless a very good and insightful column.

4. Start at about 35:00 for McCartney and Wings doing excellent 1972 live versions of Long Tall Sally and Yesterday, for the Japanese.

5. Rishi Sunak, facing his first PMQs.

6. Some Christian Reactionary Feminist observations on free speech.