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🎭 Culture
January 27, 2026

*You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition*

By Bryan Caplan, now on sale. From Bryan’s Substack: My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips this narrative. All of these demands for “reshaping culture” are thinly-veiled calls for coercing humans. As the title essay explains: [C]ulture is… other people! Culture is who other people want to date and […] The post You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesDuke...

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🏛️ Politics
January 27, 2026

Fanning the Flames in Minnesota

A lawyer friend who defends cops in use-of-force cases cautioned me not to draw conclusions about the Renee Good shooting from video evidence, no matter how decisive it looks. The post Fanning the Flames in Minnesota appeared first on First Things

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📈 Economy
January 27, 2026

The Hidden Economics Powering AI

In this episode, Jen Kha, Head of Investor Relations, and David George, General Partner, discuss how late-stage private markets are evolving as AI reshapes scale, capital intensity, and growth timelines. They explain why AI-driven companies are staying private longer, how infrastructure spending is changing return profiles, and what this moment means for durability, value creation, and long-term outcomes in private markets

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💻 Technology
January 27, 2026

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science

In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phone out, which is everywhere. Now OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it had launched a…

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💻 Technology
January 27, 2026

The power of sound in a virtual world

In an era where business, education, and even casual conversations occur via screens, sound has become a differentiating factor. We obsess over lighting, camera angles, and virtual backgrounds, but how we sound can be just as critical to credibility, trust, and connection. That’s the insight driving Erik Vaveris, vice president of product management and chief…

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