08/05/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Yellen (and Akerlof) (In My Tribe)

2. The Ambivalences of ‘Don Giovanni’ (New York Review of Books)

3. Xanadu: A Source of Inspiration for Barbie? (National Review)

4. To Defend Shakespeare Is to Defend the West (Religion & Liberty)

5. A compute-based framework for thinking about the future of AI (Effective Altruism Forum)

6. How Do We Fix Econ 102? (Economic Forces)

7. The Rise in American Pain: The Importance of the Great Recession (NBER)