Noteworthy...

• We should expect more and worse pandemics (link)

• A spy story (link)

• The dawn of man-made mammals (link)

• A brief history of Spain (link)

• Classic feminist essay against “trashing” (link)

• Caitlin Flanagan on free speech (link)

• Doppelgängers (link)

• What we owe the future (link)

• Primitive communism is false (link)

• Apocalyptic thinking (link)

• “It turns out many of us wear ridiculously negative antisocial filters.” (link)

• Megan critiques student loan forgiveness (link)

• Annie Lowrey probes the issue (link)

• Alex Tabarrok on a sneaky loophole law schools use to enrich themselves (link)

• Deep fake video and business scams (link)

• “To understand the state of our healthcare system, consider how it now spends over £2 billion a year on settling negligence claims.” (link)

• Bari Weiss interviews Bill Barr (link)

• From profanity to collective inheritance (link)

• “We were fortunate that Omicron turned out to be as mild as it has been, says BioNTech co-founder Uğur Şahin. In an interview, he says he expects that his company's adapted vaccine will be available in September, just in time for the first Oktoberfest to take place in Germany since the pandemic.” (link)

• Classic Postrel (link)

• When a good guy refuses (link)

• The art of listening (link)

• The sanctification of George Soros (link)

• Xennials understand that one needn’t care what the kids think is cool. Millennials do not. (link)