Imagine groggily waking up from general anaesthetic to this

I have a title! Look out for “Selective Affinities: Literature and New Critical Theory,” out with @uchicagopress in 2026

kenyon.edu/news/archive/s… Actually and honestly everyone else on this list is so good, I’m definitely bringing up the rear. But I have the longest title so clearly mine will simply eat all the other titles.

Back at Max’s (Opera Cafe) in Burlingame after like 25-30 years and, well, I barely remember it.

if your abstract gets accepted you will have to write the paper

1) read 2) re-read 3) re-re-read 4) re-re-re-read 5) submit 6) typo

"Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?" by Sinem Adar (@sinemadar.bsky.social). [5/5] foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/tur…

new wp: taking the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor seriously means taking the nuances of actually-existing markets seriously, which means thinking about tradeoffs between transaction costs and conformity costs. applied to misinfo and ideological belief systems (link in next post)

There are more dogs in strollers here in the Philippines than children

Academics will be like, "I can't believe they pay me to read and write" and then not read and write

Actually I mostly only read

Exciting. Our paper, "Intentional Polarization," which discusses how presidents deliberately create polarization to achieve democratic backsliding, will be published.

I’ve never heard so much easy jazz than I’ve heard in two weeks in the Philippines.

Research = downloading PDFs Academic research = downloading PDFs academically

Never do today what can be anxiously put off for 3 weeks for no reason even though it ended up taking like 5 minutes

Friendship rating: Nods during your presentation ⭐️ Shakes head during your enemy’s presentation ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️