Very excited for this new book.

Highly informative new article. [Law and Industrial Policy: the East Asian Experience by James Si Zeng :: SSRN] papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an…

I am feeling *very* happy that classes ended today and that I have a sabbatical coming up—there are many reasons for this, most related to my desire to focus on writing, but ongoing campus politics and the ability to stay away from it all do play a role.

Didn’t think the case for having more faculty edited law journals could get even stronger, but here we are…

Must be hard to reduce inflation while also fighting a trade war against the world’s biggest manufacturing supplier… Almost feels self-defeating. ft.com/content/bd60c5…

Excellent institutional news.

If you only read one social media post this week…

I kind of sympathize with this position. wsj.com/world/china/a-…

This has been all over Chinese social media since yesterday. There’s a cautionary tale in here about transplanting American academic structures and cultures into the administrative/bureaucratic realities of the Chinese academy. (It doesn’t seem like there were significant…

This is… welcome, I guess? Academic research datasets and economic datasets are still subject to strict constraints, though, so I won’t personally benefit much from any of this…

Sat through the first episode of Netflix’s Three Body Problem. It was… a difficult experience. The revisions just didn’t work for me, but maybe that’s because I’m too emotionally attached to the original, and therefore was never in a position to neutrally receive revisions of…

Omfg.

Who said Ivy League games can’t be insanely dramatic? espn.com/mens-college-b…

What are the odds that TikTok’s present is SHEIN and Temu’s future?