Friday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen July 11, 2025 at 11:50 am

1. How many parents have their driver’s license suspended for unpaid child support?

2. Did Brazilian gold harm Portuguese economic development?

3. Sherveen on Grok 4.

4. Is it immoral to eat (non-wild) honey?

5. Some details on the Texas evacuation failure.

6. Dwarkesh interviews Stephen Kotkin.

7. “One thing missing from a lot of the reporting on State Dept cuts is that this will bring total hires back to the level of 2020, which itself was a peak level.”

8. New Consensus model for deep literature reviews.