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Thanks, Shruti (and thanks @tylercowen / @ATabarrok for resharing this on MR!) Something I find especially rewarding about working on Refine is that it's appreciated especially by researchers who care about chasing down the details, which to me is much of the heart of research

“Canada is effectively exporting its inequality to the U.S. The brain drain simultaneously lowers our average income while raising American income, accounting for a significant share of the persistent GDP gap.”

What did Hayek mean when he warned about the road to serfdom? My take is now published in Constitutional Political Economy! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy 94th birthday to Harvey Mansfield today: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/harve…

Just tried @RefineInk, and it is the most granular feedback I have ever received on a paper. Along with dozens of small and big errors/issues, it caught one sentence where I slightly understate the claim of another scholar in the literature review. I was so sure I was right and went back and read the paper, but @RefineInk was right, I did understate their claim. This will become a part of redrafting all my future papers. Big shoutout to @ben_golub and his team.

It's sort of funny that we're going to have AGI before we have a printer that isn't constantly breaking.

Some professional news: I'm joining Anthropic's editorial team! I'll be leading the team's work on economics and policy, and working closely with the Anthropic Institute (about which more here: x.com/AnthropicAI/st…). Dramatic AI progress is coming in the next two years, and researchers+policymakers+the public alike will need the best information available about that shift. It's a big new challenge, and I can’t wait to get started. [Some important housekeeping: I’ll keep running Statecraft at @IFP as a Nonresident Senior Fellow! And will remain on the board at Recoding America/ as a journalist-in-residence at @johnshopkins School of Government and Policy. I start at Anthropic in a few weeks.] The move from frontier think tank to frontier lab is bittersweet. I’ve been at IFP for three years, and it’s been the most formative professional experience of my life. In a short period of time, IFP has become one of the most effective institutions in DC, generating a truly shocking amount of counterfactual policy impact (not all of it public). Being on this team has permanently raised my ambitions. I'm very grateful.

The White House’s proposal for a nationwide AI law is a thoughtful document that will serve as an excellent foundation for the legislative work ahead. I would be happy to see these principles, if translated well into statute, become law. Congratulations to those involved!

Another location of Xi’an Famous Foods coming to Clarendon… arlnow.com/2026/03/19/xia…

Mansfield on BAP having the insight on his own into locating the greatest place in human history to find the *truest*—but least spoken of—*necessity* for politics as such: It’s very precondition in the violence of all foundings Ended by saying BAP is “interesting and smart”

Another fun hiring spot at Jane Street: we're looking to hire some great hybrid writers-and-engineers. As we grow and do more, communication becomes ever more important, for both internal and external audiences.

Next week, a conversation at Harvard with the excellent Becca Rothfeld on, well, an unusual topic. @tylercowen artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/do-liber…

Shocking death toll and a new war emerging in South Asia. But hardly anyone seems to have noticed. ft.com/content/da1d82… via @ft

“Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West.” Philosopher Maarten Boudry quotes Bruckner and diagnoses of the strange but persistent strain of bitter antagonism of Western intellectuals against their own broader culture. maartenboudry.substack.com/p/the-enlighte… @MaartenBoudry

Mexico City is a big plot twist. Most people expect gray mega city vibes but instead it hits you with jacarandas, giant parks, bougainvillea, gorgeous architecture and tree-lined streets. Love it here!

Introducing Catalyst, the agent layer for all of finance. Turn any natural language idea into a live strategy: research, backtesting & execution. Don’t get left behind. Waitlist open, join now.

Fascinating Conversation with @tylercowen in which Harvey Mansfield reveals that @bronzeagemantis is NOT a Straussian.

I have been dreaming of this day for a long time. Arena is now a book publisher, and our first volume, "Silicon" is open for preorders. It's quite unlike anything you've seen: a coffee table book capturing the ecstatic beauty of silicon technology. arenamag.com/silicon

"There are no accidents in a great book. Everything is as it should be." My favorite line among the many favorite lines in this excellent conversation with @tylercowen @cowenconvos conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/harve…

My excellent Conversation with Harvey Mansfield: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/harve…