Tuesday Links – 7 April 2026

College matters: Students at Ivy League schools and the similarly selective University of Chicago, Duke, Stanford, and MIT together comprise less than half a percent of America’s undergraduate population. Yet their alumni represent more than 12 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs, 32 percent of all New York Times journalists, and 13 percent of the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the population.

Jury verdict against big tech is an example of moral dyad – the tendency to treat one side as if it were a robot devoid of feeling and the other side as if it feels pain but has no agency.

California’s $20 minimum wage: 18,000 fast food jobs lost plus higher prices.

Steuerle: the president’s budget message is “Budget Lite.”