He deleted almost every app from his phone. Then he wrote 4 bestsellers in 9 years. Cal Newport's controversial take: Your phone is making you mediocre. His science-backed system for getting your brain back:

Happy to share that my paper, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review (American Political Science Review)! Updated draft here: bit.ly/3DU4Vj7

The theory of "Dark Enlightenment" rejects liberal democracy as incompatible with freedom and progress. Today's power players in Washington and Silicon Valley have all cited the philosophy and one of its leading developers, Curtis Yarvin. But do the people embracing it genuinely

Co-hosted by Allison Hartnett (ashartnett on Bsky) and myself. Support provided by PIPE Collaborative and the Center for International Studies. Funding for accommodations available for presenters.

Best conference I’ve ever attended.

Social theory is tempted by “the logic of congruence”—the idea that every institution or association must mirror the regime. That makes it impossible to understand either family or government, says Rita Koganzon

extra judicial killings are bad, actually. It doesn't matter if the perpetrator is "famous" or "handsome" or "young" or "smart." You really don't want to live in a world where killing people for vaguely political reasons is accepted, much less condoned or celebrated.

A lot of people are pointing that most of the money universities receive directly from the feds is research grants and contracts, which is true. Not many people are asking whether it’s been good for universities to become massive federal contractors.

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I did not know this! Did you? In Japan, some people believe that blood type influences one's personality. Specifically, some people think that those with type B blood are more likely to be (among other things) selfish. This new working paper argues that this bias against people

You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right? Why is that? This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning. This is consistent with Gelman's

Academics—and other em‑dash enthusiasts—what are we supposed to do now? I just graded my undergrad take‑home exams—and the avalanche of brand‑new em dashes—dash after dash—is making me question every life choice I've made. I'm this close—really—to getting radicalized against AI.

NEW STUDY: It's dogma that fasting is good for you because it increases autophagy, the recycling of cell parts. But in the largest study ever, 6 months of time-restricted eating (TRE) or calorie restriction (CR) did not increase autophagy Huh? Is fasting still worth it? ... 🧵

What do you make of this finding? "We find that parental divorce reduces children's adult earnings and college residence while increasing incarceration, mortality, and teen births."

I sent this out ~11 months ago: looking for PhD students interested in working with me on HPE & American Politics ideas. It led to two new papers & collaborations! **Consider this another call!** Message or email me about who you are and what you might be interested in.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you AB testing at its finest:

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If you’re an academic, ask the LLM a specific q that comes up in a paper you’re working on. Not sth googleable like “what are the Gauss-Markov conditions”, I mean sth more like “explain this proof to me from p14 in this guy’s working paper”. 9/10 times I’m amazed.

I never understood why Catcher in the Rye was supposed to be a good book.

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field. I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with an overview of many essential contributions to this growing field. (1/4)