08/22/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Ban all book summaries. (Common Reader)

2. *War and Punishment* (Marginal Revolution)

3. Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great’s Animosity Towards Desire (Literary Hub)

4. The Clarifying Cut (Counter Craft)

5. Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. ‘These Places Are Just Devouring Money.’ (Wall Street Journal)

6. Your Book Review: The Weirdest People in the World (Astral Codex Ten)

7. America (Not So Much) On the Move (Conversable Economist)

8. The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction (Politico)

9. Pareto and the Roots of Politics (Project Syndicate)

10. Conservatism: A Quick Biography (Bradley J. Birzer's Substack)