China's muscular international image belies a brittle public mood at home. My essay: nytimes.com/2025/11/13/opi…

Interesting long review

Persian Carpet celebrating the successes of Soviet space travel, made by members of Iranian Tudeh Party (1965)

This looks v good

Gerard DiPippo The real data scandal in China is with the labor market not growth indicators. Lots of ways of getting a handle on cyclical momentum, very little real info on what’s happening with hiring and firing

How do people in a rising power view their country's global standing? My new paper in International Organization finds significant national overconfidence in China and shows that misperceptions can be corrected and triumphalism mitigated cup.org/49rBoKZ 崛起大国的过度自信及其校正

Out-rageously brilliant baritone sax by the great #PatPatrick, who arrived on planet Earth this day, tearing it up here with Sun Ra Arkestra... youtube.com/watch?v=3XjTO-…

On this theme, the great novel of trying, but failing, to achieve The American Dream is Wallace Stegner's *The Big Rock Candy Mountain*, which I re-read recently. Hardworking, talented guy keeps trying to strike it rich, comes close a few times but it always goes wrong.

Eighteen centuries before Adam Smith!!! 🤯 “There must be farmers to produce food, men to extract the wealth of mountains and marshes, artisans to process these things and merchants to circulate them. There is no need to wait for government orders; each man will play his part,