October 2023

After they fled Iran decades ago, Nasrin Bahrampour and her husband settled in a bright public housing apartment overlooking the university...

A new internal poll from the National Republican Senatorial Committee shows Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is in third place in the Arizona Senate rac...

From an excellent piece by John Burn-Murdoch in the FT on education and wages in England . The post Narrative Bending Chart of the Day ap...

Times writers revealed their picks. Listen at your own risk.

A study published in 2020, which drew together multiple pieces of research to track the health of almost 50,000 over-65s, showed the incide...

Two cross-sectional studies were carried out in order to identify predictors of antisemitism, measured using the Generalised Antisemitism o...

1. Eric Ambler, The Night-Comers .  (U.S. editions are sometimes titled State of Siege .)  Think of Ambler as a precursor of Le Carré.  I us...

I won’t bother listing the numerous examples in the Middle East, we also have: Azerbaijan vs. Armenia China vs. Philippines China vs. Tai...

Judge Chutkan reversed her stay and reimposed the gag order that she issued on former president Donald Trump. Reuters reported: A federal...

Judge Chutkan reversed her stay and reimposed the gag order that she issued on former president Donald Trump. Reuters reported: A federal...

And when Paraguay’s National Statistical Institute released preliminary data on August 31st, they pointed to a surprising conclusion. Unusu...

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing a conversation I had back in 2018 with Scott Harrison. We discuss the profound impact...

The scariest part of Erik Piepenburg’s job as a reporter who covers horror movies? Films that fail to frighten him.

When writing GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does It Matter? I vowed I would write the whole truth.  Not just that...

She always had concerns about the happily-ever-after ideals of the genre. Now as a director she’s pushing its boundaries to examine issues o...

Today's episode of the podcast is a not your normal podcast. This episode takes place as I travel in the car to an event in NJ. Dustin a...

The [Assyrian] empire’s chief concern were the corridors and trade routes that ran through Gaza on the coast as well as Megiddo, which had ...

Basically, the 2022 numbers — which you can see summarized in  the Fed’s report  — tell a really encouraging story. In a nutshell: Ameri...

The British director Horace Ové struggled to get his 1975 film, “Pressure,” made and released. Now, weeks after his death, a new restoration...

I hear from people all the time how they don’t have time in their day to make content for the internet. When all they have to do is manage t...

1. The culture that was German . 2. “ The profit share has been constant at 18% of GDP because the increase in monopoly rents has been comp...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column , here is one excerpt: Despite the continuing war in the Middle East, most markets have be...

In today's digital world, people play two roles: 1) A media company and 2) ...themselves. Back in the day, you had to pay for almost eve...

Written by me, from my new generative book: Most of all, for me, Becker was a true “micro-machine,” a relentless, unstoppable thinker, ana...

Sokhar Samb  is a Data Scientist from Senegal. Her EV grant supports her work of drone mapping Senegalese cities and towns such as Dakar and...

Grace Jabbari, who accused the actor of assaulting her in a car, was herself arrested on a countercomplaint.

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column , here is one excerpt: Another episode frequently cited as evidence against economists is ...

While indelibly tied to the role that made him famous in 1971, the actor remained active for more than four decades afterward.

Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is not ok. McCarthy has been described as melting down and having outbursts during meetings beca...

Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is not ok. McCarthy has been described as melting down and having outbursts during meetings beca...

Republicans should be concerned as Trump showed his face in public in New Hampshire and was met with chants of lock him up, and Donald Trum...

Republicans should be concerned as Trump showed his face in public in New Hampshire and was met with chants of lock him up, and Donald Trum...

A union leader told members that the board’s viewpoints were varied and that a consensus could not be reached.

Twenty years ago , GMU law professor Lloyd Cohen (RIP) guest blogged at MR. His taxonomy of methods of discrimination in university admissio...

The fear of failure is paralyzing...But here's the truth... you'll never succeed if your fear of failing holds you back from even st...

I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here , free of charge.  It is derived from a 100,000 word manuscript, and is ...

This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.

SNL hit the nail on the head as they had a frustrated Jim Jordan wondering why he did everything that Trump did to win, but it didn’t work. ...

The director was long identified with ornately edited set pieces. In “The Irishman” and his latest film, the flourishes have given way to bl...

This is Part 2 of a recent 4Ds (Digital Discovery Deep Dive) which is the best service that we can provide to give you access to us. It is a...

This paper combines administrative tax data and a model of global investment behavior to evaluate the investment and firm valuation effects...

Musicians, comedians and even a filmmaker make appearances in the epic drama.

4Ds  (Digital Discovery Deep Dive) is the best that we can do to give you access to us.  it is a one-day consulting session where we take a ...

That is the new and excellent book by Uri Kaufman, and the subtitle is The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East .  Here ...

Or do they want you to like and admire them?  Or maybe they are just telling the truth? It’s no surprise that social media brims over with...

House Republicans didn’t want their old Speaker, so they kicked him out. House Republicans didn’t want Jim Jordan to be Speaker, but he ref...

House Republicans didn’t want their old Speaker, so they kicked him out. House Republicans didn’t want Jim Jordan to be Speaker, but he ref...