08/28/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is left-leaning in the United States (PNAS Nexus)

2. A Young Person’s Guide to Larry Katz, Part 2 (Forked Lightning)

3. ‘What We Want Is to Start a Revolution’ (New York Review of Books)

4. How a Directionless Path Can Reveal Science’s Most Closely-Guarded Secrets (Literary Hub)

5. In Japan, People Choose Where to Pay Taxes Based on Thank-You Gifts (Wall Street Journal)

6. Advice for possible and wanna-bee book writers (Marginal Revolution)

7. Xi's apparatchiks will struggle to revive economy: China watcher (NIKKEI Asia)

8. Two Types of Integralists (Liberal Tortoise)

9. Christian Standard Bible Finds Its Place in ‘Crowded’ Evangelical Market (Christianity Today)

10. Secrecy is a major contributor to conspiracism (Bonnie Kristian)