New paper out in Science Magazine! Brain drain or brain gain? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

BOOK REVIEW: The Early Tourists' Guide to Italy: Vicenza (2023), by Giovanni Chiampesan and Graziano Ramina academia.edu/129894154/Earl…

Growing international interest in Ireland’s eye popping economic indicators. The Economist’s Charlamagne visited Dublin to make sense of it all. Yours truly shared views over a few pints of stout. economist.com/europe/2025/06…

What an absolute joke. Trump literally wrote yesterday that the attack on Iran was a punition for not respecting his "ultimatum", yet today he writes that the "U.S. has nothing to do with the attack on Iran." Both can't be true.

The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.

With German logic: If Putin manages to march all the way to Berlin, then his success has proven its justification.

One fascinating thing about German media is how it tends to move in a coordinated way. So here's another column, in the high-brow centrist Zeit magazine, calling into question adherence with international law. With picture to match! 🙈

New research finds widespread belief in the “Great Replacement Theory” in Germany. James Dennison and Alexander Kustov analyze original survey data to explore who the GRT, an extremist, anti-immigration conspiracy theory, has gained momentum with. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

As a European, the fact that the White House is now using Rutte's "daddy" comment in their propaganda represents the absolute low point of our continent's dignity. They're literally celebrating our leaders' submission as entertainment for their domestic audience. This is the

What nation has the strongest Karens, who most check on retail/service & push it to provide consistent high quality service?

There is not a single Gaza story on the homepages of the The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, or MSNBC today. Not one. The below stories apparently don’t merit coverage in the largest and most resourced news outlets in America—the country sponsoring this endless slaughter.

It's kind of hilarious that, not only are Western journalists going along with the absurd claim that "death to the IDF" is antisemitic (which it's obviously not regardless of what you think of it), but they're also demanding that Palestinians express outrage because some guy has

So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and the U.S. still cut off previously funded weapons supplies, leaving Ukrainian cities defenseless against Russian missile strikes. A lesson to all here.

The Children of ZIRP

“I wouldn’t be surprised if next week or very soon we saw Pat McFadden sat in that place as chancellor.” If the tears streaming down Rachel Reeves’s face mean her exit is imminent, @PatrickkMaguire says Pat McFadden is likely to replace her. @HugoRifkind

Happiness is highly linked to how focused you are on what you're doing. A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

Life-size model of an "intelligent workspace" in the Home Information Machine exhibit at a Moscow electronics show, 1971.

I have to read this more carefully, but at a glance it seems not great for empirical social science.

Earlier today, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, got to the heart of a significant problem with British politics, which is that politicians don’t feel able to be honest about what is achievable. “The UK public finances are in an unsustainable position in the long run. The UK