We just submitted our paper on the rise of Serfdom in Russia (joint work with Timur Natkhov), and we're very proud of the result. I am going to start here a long thread explaining the paper (I will add little by little as I have time)

It was foretold.

It seems that the anger at immigration stems from losers being ashamed at their own lack of ambition. Moving to a new country is risky and difficult. People who do it are usually high agency. The migrant reminds the worst Americans of their own failures.

Someone, please, tell me how to keep calm when most of the nuclear weapons are in the hands of fascists at the moment?

Identifying Causal Effects in Information Provision Experiments. arxiv.org/abs/2309.11387

This is disgusting Secretary Marco Rubio Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave.

I’m a scientist. I post on here knowing I’ll be mocked, misquoted, and attacked. But silence lets misinformation win. If scientists stop explaining, outrage fills the void. So no. I won’t stay quiet. Evidence deserves a voice. Even here.

When you write an essay, the paragraphs you delete are in some sense part of the essay: they were useful in shaping the final content.

I swear - this is really funny for my people!

This is why Western support of Ukraine is critical for world peace (should have been much much larger at the very start of the war) doi:10.1017/S0020818324000043

Russia has no place to be at the UN Security Council. It is a terrorist state committing genocide on an independent sovereign state with no regard for the rule of law. When will the West summon up courage to do what is right? Marcus Kolga 🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦 Maria Popova 🇨🇦 Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦 MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀

A new episode in the Breaking Bad series just dropped

"...economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power. An economist can never be a favorite of autocrats and demagogues...and the more they are inwardly convinced that his objections are well founded, the more they hate him." — Mises, Human Action

Hot take: When newly independent African nations were seizing mines and farms in the name of "the people," Botswana's leaders looked at the same playbook and said: "No thanks." They partnered 50/50 with De Beers instead of kicking them out.  They let mining experts run

I am so happy that I do not live in the USA (I wonder how 14-year-old me would have reacted to this tweet). Also, does this tweet now ban me from entering the USA?

As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10

Thinking about it way more often than about the Roman Empire

Нам не нужна Россия. У нас есть свое государство - Республика Татарстан! Правительства Независимого Татарстана с призывом ко всем татарам пробудиться от имперских оков Московии и стремиться к восстановлению собственной государственности... youtu.be/QyJg1FgkEYQ?si… через YouTube