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Matt Zwolinski highlights some superb opportunities, offered by the Institute for Humane Studies, for grad students.

George Will on apocalypse fatigue.  A slice:

Because crises are government’s excuse for growing, liberalism’s motto is: Never let a crisis go unfabricated.  But its promiscuous production of crises has made them boring.

Here’s Bryan Caplan – with help from Deirdre McCloskey – on some implications of our imperfect knowledge.

Richard Rahn discusses taxes on corporations.

Mark Perry features one of my all-time favorite letters – namely, that of Steve Landsburg to his daughter’s, Cayley’s, pre-school teacher.

Speaking of Steve Landsburg, he points here to one of the enduring mysteries of humankind – and it’s not just Krugman who mystifies on this front.

Hans Bader on the myth of British-government austerity.

Arnold Kling reviews Anat Admati’s and Martin Hellwig’s The Bankers’ New Clothes.

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