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
Area studies (ethnic studies, gender studies, and the like) are common magnets for criticism. These are the fields harboring…
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An Assault Weapons Compromise to Save Lives
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
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
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
(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
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
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.
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
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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