07/23/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Rich Lode of EV metals could boost Taliban and its new Chinese partners (Washington Post)

2. How Chris Rufo Became the Thing He Hates (Reason)

3. The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index (AEI)

4. Who Is a Libertarian? (Religion & Liberty Online)

5. Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor (Texas Tribune)

6. Matthias Grünewald (Wikipedia)

7. Notes on Puzzles (Nabeel S. Qureshi)