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The (Almost) Complete Crowd-sourced Bibliography of Apocalypse Fiction

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

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Report: Area Studies are a Tiny Part of American Higher Education

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

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An Assault Weapons Compromise to Save Lives

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

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An Open Letter to a Young Libertarian

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

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Evaluating the Accuracy of General Social Survey Sex Data

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Since the release of the 2018 wave of the General Social Survey, the big story has been about the sex…

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Failure Is an Option Part 2: Grants

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

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No, IQ Isn’t the Magic Variable that Explains Everything

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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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Failure Is An Option

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Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is hard. It’s also highly arbitrary. Here’s an abridged version of my CV that shows where…

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Has Sociology Been Overrun by Postmodernists? Probably Not.

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Is social science infested with postmodernism? This seems to be a constant refrain on Twitter and other venues for social…

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Marriner Eccles’ Grandson Comes out against Koch Money at the University of Utah

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Nick’s introduction: If you live in Salt Lake City or are involved with the University of Utah, you might following…

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