That is the title of my latest Free Press piece, here is one excerpt: Or look at the AI revolution,…
Measuring politically sensitive attitudes in authoritarian settings is difficult because expressions of political support may reflect repression and social pressure…
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Federal money flows to cities in three flavors: direct transfers, indirect transfers, and what we call fiscal dark matter. Direct…
The author is Tim Whitmarsh and the subtitle is Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. This is the most…
How do “international efforts” work? Unlike most of the signatories of the letter, I have been a State Department advisor…
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To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in early 2025…
Major new report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Five things in the report I really…
I complained about the casting of The Odyssey per se (the blind beggar was best), but in general I do…