What “liveability” really means; what Jesus would cut; website load times; minimum wage side effects; and more.

How government interventions in the free market have promoted auto-​​oriented urban design over denser, more walkable forms.

Arthur Brooks draws the battle lines in today’s culture war; a good-​​looking transit project in Maryland; must-​​reads on urban policy for conservatives; and how Google destroys office productivity.

Rand Paul tries his hand at a new conservative fusionism in Kentucky; a new budget simulator; making transit pretty and whether to subsidize it; and why conservatives should engage in urban policy debates.

Families are increasingly living in cities, and conservatives need to offer them solutions; Medicare’s false “savings”; Mother Jones finds much to love in Thomas Malthus; why the NYPD isn’t racist; and whether obesity is really a problem.

Why are conservatives on board with Question Time at all? Plus: defending Paul Ryan’s entitlement reforms; and two surveys demonstrate broad political ignorance.

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from June 12^th to June 14^th.