09/15/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. In Defense of Voracious Reading (Law & Liberty)

2. Brittle Platoons: The Burning Man Problem (Unafraid)

3. Better, Faster, Stronger (New York Review of Books)

4. Modi's India Claims Another Casualty: Academic Freedom (UnPopulist)

5. R. F. Kuang (Wikipedia)

6. THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME (Vinduet)

7. How Mexico built a state (Works in Progress)

8. The Basic Principles of Wealth Creation Have Not Changed (Religion & Liberty Online)

9. Wheaton College Releases Report on Its History of Racism (Christianity Today)

10. Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon (Understanding AI)