Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“In 1917, some Portuguese children started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin told them she would enact a great miracle on a certain day in October, and a crowd of 100,000 gathered to witness the event. According to eyewitness reports, newspaper articles, etc, they saw the sun spin around, change colors, and do various other miraculous things. At least a hundred separate testimonies of the event have come down to us, with only two or three people saying they didn’t see it. … there was no record of a miracle exactly like Fatima happening within a non-Catholic religious tradition. Until now! Substacker Arthur T, building on research from Sophia In The Shell, has found a 1990s Buddhist sun miracle very similar to Fatima.” (03/27/26)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/a-buddhist-sun-miracle

Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by George Agbesi & Joshua D Ammons

“At one point, Gordon Tullock thought taxi medallions were inefficient but intractable institutions, a classic example of what he called the transitional gains trap. The medallion system persisted not because it served the public, but because the rents it generated were capitalized into medallion prices, making any reform politically impossible. Then came Uber, and within a matter of years this supposedly permanent institution crumbled. What if a similar technology shock could do the same for societies lacking the rule of law?” (03/27/26)

https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/betting-on-better-governance

Source: Law & Liberty
by Titus Techera

“The late actor was an example of principled, courageous manliness that our elites have forgotten how to celebrate.” (03/27/26)

https://lawliberty.org/remembering-the-man-chuck-norris/

Source: Washington Post
by Matthew Schmitz

“Far from being a sign of resurgent faith, Christian identity politics is a symptom of religious decline. As one observer has noted, the fact that Americans are growing more secular and less religiously literate has made religion more salient as a marker of political difference, even as invocations of it become less informed.” (03/27/26)

https://archive.is/9wrwf

Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes

“A bad idea doesn’t get better with age. Bad ideas aren’t wine, jeans, or your high school memories. The tax subsidies for the Post-Dispatch building redevelopment in downtown St. Louis were a bad idea back in 2019 when the development was proposed, and they are a bad idea now. Using tax subsidies for economic development rarely benefits the public. Instead, it lowers the risk and increases the returns for private investors.” (03/27/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/subsidies/tax-subsidies-are-a-mistake-we-cant-seem-to-learn-from/