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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Arnold Kling</title>
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		<title>Colleges do not card</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/colleges-do-not-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Higher education is the only product,” Arnold Kling says, “where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible.” In The Case Against Education, Bryan Caplan runs with this idea: Fact: anyone can study at Princeton for free. While tuition is over $45,000 a year, anyone can show up and start attending [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Showing off erudition is more of a bug than a feature</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/showing-off-erudition-is-more-of-a-bug-than-a-feature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet deluges us with information, Arnold Kling notes: Martin Gurri terms it a tsunami. Tyler Cowen, who has speed-reading superpowers, says that he finds Twitter to be information dense, by which he means that for him, it contains more information per line he reads than do other media. I disagree with him about Twitter, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Their bloated administrations are the shock troops of the culture war</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of revolutionaries, Balaji Srinivasan argues, technological and political, and there are two kinds of backers, venture capitalists and philanthropists. There aren’t term sheets between philanthropists and political revolutionaries, with “exits” to the tune of billions of dollars, but impact certificates could fix that, Scott Alexander suggests. Arnold Kling doesn’t want that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarianism in the United States is an awkward alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia Postrel notes that libertarianism in the United States is an awkward alliance between nasty “leave me alone” types and nice “don’t dictate to others” types, Arnold Kling reports: She invoked David Hackett-Fischer’s classic Albion’s Seed. That might be a good book to discuss at some point. The nasties are the descendants of the Scotch-Irish [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>There were standards of politeness that people followed</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/there-were-standards-of-politeness-that-people-followed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 14:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One factor driving Wokeness, Virginia Postrel notes, is a desire on the part of young people to be polite, and Arnold Kling doesn’t quite agree: Calling people by their preferred pronouns and avoiding micro-aggressions can be seen as an attempt to be polite. Of course, by my standards these forms of politeness are not admirable, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoom and Amazon fed on the carcasses of mom-and-pop businesses</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/04/zoom-and-amazon-fed-on-the-carcasses-of-mom-and-pop-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When COVID hit, the stock market took a deep dive, but it subsequently recovered: Why did it recover? Because we used the Internet as a substitute for activities that were curtailed by COVID. And the Internet services we used were provided by corporations with shares traded on Wall Street. The economy shifted in the direction [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Is financial innovation a good thing?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/04/is-financial-innovation-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is financial innovation a good thing? In the context of a free market, innovation is a positive-sum game. The innovations that survive — most don’t — are the ones that conserve resources and improve quality. In the case of financial innovation, improving quality could mean better risk management. But financial innovation does not take place [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>This insurance was supposed to pay off in case those bonds lost value</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many money managers who had bought Russian bonds in the past had purchased credit insurance from other companies: This insurance was supposed to pay off in case those bonds lost value, which they clearly have as a result of sanctions. Under terms of some of these contracts, some money managers have been able to collect [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>People perceive government bonds as wealth</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/03/people-perceive-government-bonds-as-wealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Kling thinks that people perceive government bonds as if they were wealth: The government borrows $1 from me and spends it on you. You have a new dollar. And I think I still have a dollar, because the government owes me a dollar. Neither of us thinks that we will have our taxes raised [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The traditional yeomanry is losing out</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/01/the-traditional-yeomanry-is-losing-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The working class may have suffered the most in the past decades, but the angriest class in America may be the small business and property-owning class, Joel Kotkin says: National chains and online services are replacing many traditional Main Street businesses — the insurance and travel agencies, the local banks, the High Street retailers and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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