Archive - The Update

The quixotic fight against self-driving cars

Plus: accelerating vaccine development, the chances of Iranian regime change, and more

Jan 8 • Stefan Schubert

Why all the college catastrophizing?

Costs are falling, returns are holding up, and graduates aren’t being displaced by AI

Jan 6 • Stefan Schubert

Why is crime plummeting in the most liberal places in the world?

Plus: less has changed than people expected in 1998, falling American death rates, and more

Jan 2 • Stefan Schubert

December 2025

Governments spend far more on old people than on children

Plus: the most central chart in AI, rising economic optimism, and more

Dec 23, 2025 • Stefan Schubert

The shrinking US–EU unemployment gap

Plus London’s housing slump, how journalists should use social science, and much more

Dec 19, 2025 • Stefan Schubert

Launching The Update

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?

Dec 16, 2025 • Stefan Schubert

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