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- The Pentagon Papers leak.
- The one argument conservatives make against every new social program.
- Arundhati Roy on capitalism.
- Infrastructure spending can save local journalism.
- Russia may have found a new way to censor the internet.
- What Tyler Cowen has been reading.
- Don’t muddy the objectives on fighting domestic extremism.
- The Cold War is being rebooted and rebranded.
- ‘I never thought China could ever be this dark.’
- Social and development impact bonds by the numbers.
- International Studies Association 2021 Virtual Conference program. I’m looking forward to some great sessions including one on strategic culture featuring new scholars.
- Economics 210A – World Economic History syllabus. The COVID-19 pandemic has revived the Malthusian world of population, diseases, and deaths. Professor Gregory Clark’s readings offer historical clarity.
- John Goldthorpe interview excerpts. The leading United Kingdom professor on social mobility reflects on his life and sociological research methods.
- Unequal Chances or Unequal Abilities TED talk: Professor Gregory Clark speaks on his longitudinal study of surnames and the genotype implications for social mobility.
- Why don’t more people go to college? comments: the replies to economist Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution post offer insights into the social class stratification of higher education.
- The Academic Job Market Is Fake article: I find it helpful to read contrarian views about the winner-takes-all market in higher education.
- Academia Is A Cult TED talk: Karen Kelsky (The Professor Is In) explains how credentialism in higher education creates social stratification in terms of occupation outcomes.
- Ian Bogost: what on Earth is Amazon doing?
- The haunted imagination of Alfred Hitchcock.
- Why computers won’t make themselves smarter.
- How Bellingcat unmasked Putin’s assassins.
- When illness is invisible.
- Teaching in the Age of Corona, one year later.
- The anti-pop conservative outrage machine.
- Physicists learn to superfreeze antimatter.
- The next conservative kingpin.
- Georgia’s new anti-voting law.