This has aged well

“I began to add a few things up and realized there was no way I could come from a little town in Iowa, be eating 2,000 people a year, and nobody said anything about it,” Mrs. Burgus told The Chicago Tribune in 1997.

nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/…

That’s narrower than I would have thought, but people rightly don’t like chaos.

The border is the ~only immigration issue.

nytimes.com/2024/04/13/us/…

Another enthusiastic immigrant who loves liberty, property, and capitalism youtu.be/RlDzrbKuPPk?si…

David Friedman demolishes collectivist arguments by libertarians opposed to free immigration.

Dave Smith & HHH make a collectivist exception by supporting immigration restrictions that ends up swallowing libertarianism.

Well done piece.

daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/immigration?…

True.

“More than 99 percent of the [Iranian] missiles and drones were intercepted.”

Question for people who study IR. The argument I hear is that Iran had to attack to save-face. But how is this outcome “face-saving”? It’s humiliating and ex ante predictable.

washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel, causing slight damage to a military base.

He says most of the missiles were intercepted by the long-range Arrow air defense system. The missiles were mostly downed outside of Israeli…

In about 12 hours y’all are gonna realize how incompetent, poor, and ineffective Iran is.

Personal opinion.

'Writing online tends to make people slightly worse writers because you always have the voice of the most pedantic reader in your head...you dilute the impact of a strong sentence by adding a bunch of disclaimers to head off commenters.' thewhippet.org/150-heartsmitt…

Yep. Wisconsin conservatives will remember this bit of industrial policy from the past.

Turns out having Republicans in charge didn't make it work.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/N…

Harvey Ross Ball, inventeur du 'visage smiley' en 1963.

Great news that this paper by the fantastic Barbara Biasi won the AEA's award for Best Paper published AEJ: Policy in the past 3 years!

Important insights into the impact of flexibility in teacher pay schemes on student outcomes.

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Immigrants are entrepreneurial.

Immigrants are more likely to be owner-employers (2.9% v 2.2%), non-employer owners (9.7% v 6.1%), and self-employed than native born Americans (10.7% v 10.4%).

gallup.com/analytics/6431…