Vol. II · No. 295
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Thursday, October 22, 2026
174 writers in the library
a reading room for the unhurried web
Economics · Long read

Do mass shootings in universities lead to permanent effects?

Using a stacked difference-in-differences design covering shootings between 1990 and 2025, I compare cohorts at affected universities before and after the shooting with cohorts at matched control universities. I find no detectable effects on time to degree, but undergraduates enrolled at the time of...

  1. Life

    Clothes diversity

    Pertinent Observations Oct 22
  2. Culture

    A brief reply to Ed West about reading

    The Common Reader Oct 22
  3. Tech

    [Article] Dem Bones! (Weird Web October)

    Dan Q Oct 22
Ten shelves · 50 essays

The Reading Room

Culture · Feature

Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine

Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share paywalled articles with friends and followers. These are commonly referred to as gift links. Thousands of gift link...

From the Stacks

Five rediscoveries from the back issues, rotated by the day

Read slowly. There is no hurry.

  1. I. Finance

    Why Credit Risk Has Paid Off for Bond Investors

    Larry’s Substack Oct 7
  2. II. History

    The Battle of All Poets and Authors

    The Abrahamic Metacritique Oct 2
  3. III. Philosophy

    I’m Disappointed in Leftists on AI

    Bentham's Bulldog Oct 7
  4. IV. Psychology

    The value of experience in an increasingly online world

    Maria Konnikova Oct 7
  5. V. Science

    The world without solar and wind?

    The Climate Brink Oct 5
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