Monday assorted links

1. On Amy Coney Barrett (NYT).

2. The Dull Men’s Club.

3. A creative solution to the California housing problem.

4. A new non-opioid pain killer? (New Yorker)

5. “In the Indian context, childlessness accounts for only 6% of the difference between high-fertility and below-replacement districts.”  It explains 38% of that difference in the “advanced economies” in the sample.

6. Leonard Lauder, RIP (NYT).

7. Thailand growth is slowing, slowing, slowing.