Monday assorted links

1. The (strong) case for beans (WSJ).

2. Education is correlated with liberal and pro-market views in most countries.

3. Puffin photos.

4. Do GLP-1 drugs pay for themselves?

5. “Robin Hanson, telephone!”

6. New Statesman recommends non-fiction for 2026.

7. David Deming on learning with generative AI.

8. One Transnistria report.

9. Weird LLM generalizations.  With a good Terminator example.

10. Hollis Robbins on Pluribus.