To me, all of this raises the importance of a bipartisan Congressional permitting reform bill that contains executive branch discretion to deny routine permits for American energy resources (yes, of all kinds). Biden bans offshore oil & gas, Obama rejects Keystone XL. Trump bans

Also: if we continue down this path, with broken utility interconnection processes, anemic proactive transmission expansion, glacial federal permitting, and politically-driven attacks on whatever resources the President dislikes, we will find ourselves in a genuine energy

Data revisions are a normal, necessary part of trying to measure a $30 trillion economy in real time. They can also be jarring, especially for people who don't obsessively scrutinize every jobs report. So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways:

Very, very occasionally an exceptional generalist intellectual or particularly well-informed journalist might be able to see a problem with a paper that an academic close to the subject doesn't, but this radically underestimates the uses of expertise/familiarity with a literature

This is a video of masked government agents removing a D.C. protest sign expressing an opinion that would certainly appear to be protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment.

In the last two weeks, I’ve gotten tons of institutional emails about AI and undergrad education, and literally none about the simultaneous politicization and defunding of federal humanities research funding.

The deputy Treasury secretary, the CDC director, and the DIA director all got fired suddenly this week and I think only the most committed of news consumers noticed

On grade inflation I was once a jazz saxophone major. I would practice 20-30 hours a week on top of a 19 credit hour overload. I would sometimes go to sleep at 9, wake up at 3am and practice 4-5h before class. At the end of my first semester, my sax prof sat me down:

My thoughts on gun violence. Today I testified in a sentencing hearing for several young adults convicted of murder. With a gun, always a gun. Listening to the victim impact statement of a mother whose son was murdered, you learn to not wish violence on anyone. It’s not a joke

New research on state legislatures finds that legislative institutions do not result in the outcomes we would often expect, highlighting need for "case-specific knowledge" of state-level formal and informal legislative institutions: (1/2) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

I just taught my first class since Charlie Kirk's assassination. We spoke about the attack for more than an hour. My students at Lipscomb University, to a person (and regardless of whether they were on the right or the left), engaged thoughtfully and mournfully. There wasn't a hint of

Would critiquing a Scalia opinion in class constitute “belittling conservative ideas”?

Every American Airlines boarding experience is another chance to be reminded why one should never fly this airline.

💯 Fed critics obsess about cumulative inflation over 100 years - which is not really important. What matters is that inflation is slow, steady, & predictable. Early inflation may have netted towards zero long-term, but the yearly instability wreaks havoc on people and economy.

Speaking as an alum, this is entirely appropriate, and would have been so if the proposed group had been some liberal equivalent.

“PERFECT SHOTS ALL THE WAY!" A D3 golfer aced the same hole twice on the same day Monday at the Chick-Fil-A Invitational in Rome, Georgia. Sewanee Athletics sophomore Niel Phillips began his first round with a hole-in-one (6-iron from 182 yards) on the par-3 eighth hole at

You won’t find a better tweet out there today.

If you live/work in NoMa, you may have seen a new hot dog stand at 1st and M NE. The guy running it is Isaac Stein, an IRS lawyer who’s been furloughed since Oct 8. The government shutdown has unexpectedly given him time to pursue a passion project long in the works.

Request for proposals: HPE and the United States. Papers for a special issue of JHPE, with a conference USC Price School in early May. Details below.