August 2022 I was recently asked by a grad student for pointers on giving a presentation, so here we…
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August 2022 I was recently asked by a grad student for pointers on giving a presentation, so here we…
Continue reading →Background: on May 13, 2022, the self-described “post-liberal” conservative Patrick Deneen appeared on Ezra Klein’s podcast. He got some things…
Continue reading →Abortion has remained America’s most intractable political issue because it defies compromise. If you believe that abortion is the murder…
Continue reading →What I’ve read, more or less in order of preference: 1) Earth Abides (plague) 2) Alas, Babylon (nuclear war) 3)…
Continue reading →Area studies (ethnic studies, gender studies, and the like) are magnets for criticism. These are the fields harboring the…
Continue reading →Almost 70 percent of Americans (including a bare majority of Republicans) want to ban new assault weapons sales, but…
Continue reading →In a recent podcast, journalist Cathy Young drew an unlikely comparison between libertarian icon Ron Paul and the Soviet Union:…
Continue reading →Since the release of the 2018 wave of the General Social Survey, the big story has been about the sex…
Continue reading →(Image credit: NSF) Previously I posted a version of my CV that listed all the peer-reviewed journals that had rejected…
Continue reading →Revised on March 11, 2019, with new analysis reported after the original post. Often on Twitter I encounter people I’ve…
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