Thursday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen February 19, 2026 at 11:41 am

1. On the Saudi-UAE rift.

2. Record low U.S. crime rates are real, not an artifact of data issues.

3. Is the LDS Church suddenly bearish? What do they know?

4. Alcohol death rates in Europe, by country.

5. Australia as a partial model for the FDA.

6. “A new aesthetics will be cool, sexy, and soaring or will never transpire. Three artists who should be forebears of a new art: Uccello, Correggio, Tiepolo.“