Tuesday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen December 30, 2025 at 11:44 am

1. Ulkar on Kodaly and the cello.

2. “Lowbrow fiction is good sex and highbrow fiction is bad sex.”

3. The economics of Duke University.

4. Beginner’s Guide to the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

5. Andrew Batson on music of the year for him.

6. Model this (claim about Freemasonry and the British police).

7. Zhengdong Wang year end letter on AI.

8. I do not think these particular estimates are reliable, nonetheless murder rates would be much higher if not for medical advances.