10/30/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. The Modest Case for Free Trade as the Robust Case for Free Trade (FUSION)

2. How the Car Helped Restore New England’s Forests (Human Progress)

3. How health-care costs stopped rising (Economist)

4. A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present (Part III) (Then Again)

5. A Genius Award for Airborne Transmission (Marginal Revolution)

6. Spurgeon and the Poverty-Fighting Church (Religion & Liberty)

7. Palestinian Death Statistics, Doubted by the U.S., Remain a Subject of Controversy (Wall Street Journal)

8. ‘Every square inch is covered in life’: the ageing oil rigs that became marine oases (Guardian)

9. This $1,000 Test Finds Signs of Cancer in Your Blood (Wall Street Journal)

10. The monster beneath (Economist)