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Nick’s Coconut-Lentil Soup Recipe

Nick’s coconut-lentil soup 2 yellow onions 4 cloves garlic 2 tbsp cooking oil (grape seed, veggie, olive) 2 cups lentils…

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

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

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

Nick’s introduction On July 20, 2017 the news broke that my employer, the University of Utah, agreed to accept a…

To appear in PS: Political Science and Politics, the journal of record for the American Political Science Association Benjamin Highton,…

UC Berkeley held a memorial for my dad on April 11, 2015. Here are most of the eulogies, as well…

This post also appears on the American Association of University Professors Academe blog. Academia doesn’t always do a good job…

As all my friends have noticed, I’ve never spent a lot of time on social media. Indeed, I never quite…