08/31/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Department of justice charges 371 people for Covid-19 fraud, recovers $231 million. (News Minimalist)

2. Digression 2: From MANUALS to YOUTUBE (with a detour) - Two Assault Rifles (Books in Progress)

3. The Egoists and the Altruists (Hedgehog Review)

4. How to read the canon (Common Reader)

5. Three strange takes on the philosophy of music (Big Think)

6. The gap between law and practice in gender rights (CEPR)

7. Dickens’s London is more elusive than the artful dodger himself (Spectator)

8. Central functions, Mesopotamia (Social Science Files)

9. Did the U.S. Really Grow Out of Its World War II Debt? (NBER)

10. Thomas Sowell, Political Conflict, and Madmen in Authority (Econlib)