As you probably know if you follow me on Twitter, I have recently become a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), where I will now be blogging from now on. Here is how…
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Just so you know, I temporarily deactivated my Twitter account last week because I really need to get shit done, but everything is fine and I should be back shortly. Since I keep receiving emails asking me what happened, I…
Just so you know, I have installed Polylang, a plugin for WordPress that helps you create a multilingual website. So you can now switch between English and French by clicking on the little flag in the top menu and it…
As I was busy not working on my dissertation, not only have I not written much in the past year or so, but most of it has been off the blog. So I wanted to write a post quickly to…
Bryan Caplan wrote a very good essay in The Atlantic in which he makes the case that investment in education is socially wasteful. It’s based on a forthcoming book he wrote on that issue, which I’m sure will be very…
I have been really busy lately and didn’t have time to write for the blog, but readers might be interested in my conversation with Glenn Loury, who kindly invited me to talk about police violence on his podcast after he…
I recently came across this interesting blog post, in which the author describes his experience dealing with state insurance regulators in the US. He points out that regulators are often ignorant of even the most basic statistical techniques used in the…
I don’t have time to write another post for the blog at the moment, though I have several of them in the works, but I wanted to let you know about a few things I published elsewhere. I already mentioned…
L. J. Zigerell had an interesting exchange with the authors of a recent meta-analysis of field experiments about discrimination on the labor market. According to him, the data suggests there is a strong publication bias, but they argue that’s not really…
Helen Pluckrose wrote a fantastic essay about patriarchy on Areo Magazine. She goes over the history of patriarchy and criticizes the way in which most contemporary feminists use the term. It’s rare when I’m so completely in agreement with something.…