So this piece in Time by Jess Zimmerman, I think, is a pretty good example of why the internet can be such a uniquely useless place to try and play politics. Zimmerman provides a brief history of the “not all men” meme, which is the new new hotness in the world of people who take their politics […]
Continue reading →Good news for me. I passed my French test! It was a selection from Camus, which is funny if you know the name of my old blog. Which was the final hurdle keeping me from being a PhD candidate! I have been awarded a fellowship by the Purdue Research Foundation for this summer, which means […]
Continue reading →It’s really to the credit of FiveThirtyEight that they’re making some of their data publicly available. That open access comes in part thanks to this wonderfully smart post by Brian Keegan, a postdoc from Northwestern. In it, Keegan advocates for availability of data by doing a replication of research by FiveThirtyEight’s Walt Hickey. In it, […]
Continue reading →“It’s a TV channel aimed mainly at millennials, whose only real guiding rule is that it’s going to stay away from anything conventional….So here’s the idea: let’s say we can serve up high-quality Fusion-branded content to a new generation of digital natives…. Here’s where things start getting really cool. ” — Felix Salmon. The whole piece is like some […]
Continue reading →I apologize in advance, because I am going to talk about a piece that I have not yet read. To be clear, I do not intend to read Megan McArdle’s “Piketty’s Tax Hikes Won’t Help the Middle Class.” I’m afraid that I can’t wait to weigh in — not on the review itself, but on […]
Continue reading →So this may get my Hater Card revoked, but I actually have found a lot to like about the early days of Vox. There have been some really good pieces on there– I liked the Passover explainer, and Yglesias’s distillation of Pikkety’s Capital in the 21st Century was well done, and an example of how that type […]
Continue reading →One of the traditional, fundamental political divides between the left and the right has been the question of rights and ability, the question of positive rights. Conservatives have tended to endorse only negative rights, while liberals have endorsed a more expansive vision of positive rights. Healthcare is a prime example. Conservatives have long reacted to […]
Continue reading →“Bowers writes that Perkins always wanted someone different. Bowers writes, ‘He always wanted someone different.’ “ — Claire Pires, “22 Rumors, Orgies, And Relationships From The Golden Age Of Gay Hollywood,” Buzzfeed
Continue reading →Remember how everybody thought that Kim Jong Un fed his uncle to rabid dogs, and they all had a good time working themselves into a frenzy about it? And remember how that wasn’t true, and everybody was like, boy we sure were stupid then! Remember how weeks later, everybody thought that everyone in North Korea […]
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