Great piece which all experts should read.

Academia should have more and better jobs, of course, but insofar as it currently doesn’t, nobody should be beating themselves up. Moreover, the outside is actually pretty nice for most people, and there are many places to use what you learned to do.

but has there been a randomized controlled trial

T is OK for cis women but not trans men.

Puberty blockers are OK for cis kids but illegal for trans kids.

You see it, right? You see what this is?

mindx

people want to explain elon musk using eugene fama but he's more a larry iannaccone character

When the CEO Becomes the Brand Research suggests that Elon Musk’s political stance appears to have reshaped how different groups perceive Tesla. Overall sales trends hint at trouble. The company’s growth stalled in 2024, and delive...

Interesting piece from @hbr.org that fails to consider the scenario we lay out in an @theatlantic.com piece coming out today: the CEO doesn't just engage in political messaging but builds an entire alternative informational ecosystem to support his politics.

hbr.org/2026/04/when...

okay but they should muzzle all their speech and allow the government to dictate hiring policy just this once because it's politically convenient

Presenting a model of university organization and sketching the evolution of the university’s products and conflicts over the last 900 years, from @davidmcutler.bsky.social and Edward L. Glaeser www.nber.org/papers/w35079

minions fiction movie about them lounging around in gru's house while the world suffers the consequences of gru's actions. every night the three little girls sneak out to give food to people and it's all shot in infrared cameras

peace and reconciliation committee for the minions where they apologize to nelson mandela in minionspeak while looking contrite

What is the "Mamdani Act"? GOP bill would ban socialists, Marxists from US Chip Roy's "Mamdani Act" would make socialists, Marxists and Islamists deportable and inadmissible to the United States.

As a liberal, I am against this kind of thing.

Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech Artist Simon Denny offers a close reading of the dark art of defense tech in an essay for Artforum's May issue.

tour de force essay here from @simondenny.bsky.social to accompany his show opening soon in munich

www.artforum.com/features/sim...

the institute for what now

like with culture. caring about any of it feels like living in the past

what does sam levinson know about all that - yet it works

honestly i'm still astounded wes anderson was the one person who caught the world he was heading into in 2014

The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction.

I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.

you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable

kinda funny how the biggest takeaway from euphoria season 3 so far is that rue is the most compelling character and the beating heart of the show was her lesbian love story with he trans best friend and yet the show got completely derailed by love triangle histrionics

idk how to articulate this but i don't really like that we live in a world where the only thing that benjamin netanyahu will condemn his soldiers doing is a destruction of a christian artefact

There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.

still kinda crazy how the next prime minister of hungary is just called hungarian pete

Zohran's Pied-à-Terre Tax is Good Policy and Good Politics An economically sound way to tax the rich!

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I wrote about some of the less obvious impacts of @mayor.nyc.gov’s plan to tax the rich and why it may raise even more money than estimated!

and under kakutani's fixed point theorem preferences are convex. triggered, lib? need a safe space? this is challenging you enough, snowflake?

it's a cognitohazard for everyone. the less horserace you consume the better

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

like, william galston worked in the white house and clinton had john rawls and michael sandel over for lunch regularly. he almost appointed sandel to the supreme court seat ultimately held by ruth bader ginsburg

A lot of people forget Bill Clinton had a substantive policy platform backed by a very particular and intellectually mature political philosophy not just pointing and naming random nobodies who said upsetting lefty things

magyar get in the robot