Notes on Giving Presentations

August 2022 I was recently asked by a grad student for pointers on giving a presentation, so here we…

An Open Letter to Patrick Deneen about the Family

Background: on May 13, 2022, the self-described “post-liberal” conservative Patrick Deneen appeared on Ezra Klein’s podcast. He got some things…

Abortion has remained America’s most intractable political issue because it defies compromise. If you believe that abortion is the murder…

What I’ve read, more or less in order of preference: 1) Earth Abides (plague) 2) Alas, Babylon (nuclear war) 3)…

Area studies (ethnic studies, gender studies, and the like) are magnets for criticism. These are the fields harboring the…

Almost 70 percent of Americans (including a bare majority of Republicans) want to ban new assault weapons sales, but…

In a recent podcast, journalist Cathy Young drew an unlikely comparison between libertarian icon Ron Paul and the Soviet Union:…

(Image credit: NSF) Previously I posted a version of my CV that listed all the peer-reviewed journals that had rejected…

Revised on March 11, 2019, with new analysis reported after the original post. Often on Twitter I encounter people I’ve…