• We learned: some of the dangerous effects of pollution on human performance. In the United States, there have been significant improvements in air quality over the past 40 years, but they are not evenly distributed, even in our own country..

• We think: it remains important to consider unintended consequences of government policy. In this column, Tyler Cowen looks at how a wealth tax might negatively impact art and artists, without meaningfully increasing public access.

• We read: about a hotel in Japan that offers a room for just $1/night IF you allow your entire stay to be live-streamed on YouTube. Not worth the cost in our book.

• We recommend: a few recent movies that we managed to catch over the Thanksgiving holiday. Knives Out was really great, with excellent performances and some memorable writing. We also saw Frozen II and all ages thought it was a better movie than the first one.