With so much awfulness in the news, here’s some good news about my eldest. Sharing with pride: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...

Episode 2 of O/I, on Black family reunions*, was one of the most rewarding projects I’ve had privilege to work on Deeply moving Deep lessons about the logic of collective identity *Wha??? The events with the t-shirts are important? Yup! #BlackHistoryMonth open.substack.com/pub/ezrazuck...

Danielle Diettrich Hegseth is a very brave woman May she be successful in her mission & may she remain safe & secure

This is a good moment to remind ourselves that Eugene Goodman is an 🇺🇸 hero

Saw #TheBrutalist last night Everyone I was with agreed it was among the worst movies we’ve ever seen Incoherent jumble of cliched ideas, unfollowable plot, uninteresting characters, self-indulgent pacing Anyone who tells you it’s good either has no taste or is afraid to name a naked emperor

As much as the algo at the old place could be annoying, the algo here makes this site next to useless Unless I’m missing something?

A new year’s post on the surprising, paradoxical gifts embedded in modern new years celebrations; on the roads not taken that could have made for a very different new year’s experience & on the hidden costs associated with those gifts Happy 2025! open.substack.com/pub/ezrazuck...

This is the part the cretin wants us to think is *normal*

Insane Robert Reich still hounding us for $$ even though no election anytime soon & Dems couldn’t parlay $1b of our cash into victory

My fav thing to do when seeing America from the sky is to see how much of the landscape is colonized by what— from a landscape perspective at least— will always be America’s favorite pastime

Two months ago,🇮🇱 was so unsure of its victory over Hezb/🇮🇷 & so unaware of implications for Syria, it wanted 🇷🇺 as regional power to help enforce 🇮🇱 - 🇱🇧 deal Now Putin is powerless & humiliated in Middle East so pathetically reverting to Tsarist antisemitism www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

No sh*t?!

Every word of 👇👇👇 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The pot calling the kettle red

Inshallah www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

It sucks Tulsi isn’t in role soon enough to save Assad, innit?

Every word of this. 😡 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

My collaborator & friend @ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social has an interesting post on plagiarism & intellectual property theft, which is unfortunately quite common. One issue I’d add is the POSITIVE value of self-plagiarism for Data & Methods sections. ezrazuckermansivan.substack.com/p/why-do-sch...

Trump's pick to run the FBI wants to target Trump's critics. Forget about whether he *can*—the fact that he publicly stated he wants to, and that this didn't immediately disqualify him from getting anywhere near the government's top law enforcement agency, is a sign of our democracy's deterioration.

Interesting sociological mystery - why did Black Friday spread worldwide?

A post on the mysterious viral spread of “Black Friday” across the globe since 2005 The craziest cases are Venezuela & Iran!! The post frames the puzzle & the beginning of a theory inspired by @emollick.bsky.social’s classic take on Moore’s Law Comments please! open.substack.com/pub/ezrazuck...

Excited to share episodes 6 & 7 of the Outider/Insider podcast, featuring special guest , our wonderful colleague, the political scientist Lily Tsai podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Confronted with falsehoods, people are "morally flexible": They do not mind statements contradicting the facts - if those support some higher "truth". Summary of a paper by @minjaekim22.bsky.social, Oliver Hahl, Ethan Poskanzer and @ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social [autotranslated:] shorturl.at/3CzLd

Fetterman ‘28 !!! x.com/dbashideas/s...

Why did most Americans voters choose an anti-🇺🇸-authoritarian-grifter-narcissist-gangster-kleptocrat-lying demagogue? & how could they 4 yrs after narrowly escaping his violent attempt to subvert democracy? It’s a great question & one my coauthors & I have papers on But it’s unimportant now

Puzzled why I keep on adding followers when I’ve barely posted here Am I listed on some starter pack of insufferable bshool-based sociologists?

Why are folks assuming the causal arrow runs from news consumption to MAGA?

Pretty obvious that had Trump said these were his cabinet picks he wouldn’t have won But will those who jumped on the Trump train get off now? Nope Bc the lifeblood of his movement is the logic of the cult: Get people to violate their principles & then they’ll be loyal to you forever

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One of the key reasons for pessimism: Trunpism reverses the usual relationship between liking a politician & voting for a politician (Short 🧵)

I had one crazy-viral 🧵 that generated most of my followers It even got cited in the NYT! www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/o... x.com/ewzucker/sta...

I largely gave up on this platform soon after joining it It seemed clunky & limited not getting traction Lately there’s a pickup in new-follower notifications Since I’ve barely posted, I’m guessing this means the platform is growing Is that so? Why?

A post-election reflection: open.substack.com/pub/ezrazuck...

Now put on Apple Podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Dame Maggie Smith was a wonderful actress, including as the Dowager on Downton Abbey It’s just too bad so many people remember this scene from D.T., which was based on woefully presentist/anachronistic history Why? 2 reasons: youtu.be/zhfpBW-nUWk?...

How can universities be so good at forging meaningful connections between people with diverse backgrounds— to the point they learn more about themselves & one another— but also suffer from “inclusion failures”? Check out episode 3 of Outsider/Insider!

Excellent, scary piece, by @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social, in right-wing antisemitism & its roots in conspiracism Scary also ppl close to me reacting with ‘what about left A-S’ (also rooted in conspiracism) News flash: Both left & right wing AS can be scary As I told such friends:

Must read piece by @stephaniemlee.bsky.social My 2 cents: The replication crisis has always been as much a crisis of bad theory as of bad method & it’ll never do to focus only on the latter

So we need a culture where you're judged on whether what you literally said is in line with objective evidence. Paper by @minjaekim22.bsky.social , Oliver Hahl, Ethan Poskanzer and @ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social theconversation.com/voters-moral... theconversation.com/voters-moral...

How can universities be so good at forging meaningful connections between people with diverse backgrounds— to the point they learn more about themselves & one another— but also suffer from “inclusion failures”? Check out episode 3 of Outsider/Insider!

For many Americans, facts are less important than deep moral “truths.” (@minjaekim22.bsky.social Oliver Hahl, Ethan Poskanzer & @ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240625-top...

Forthcoming research paper delves into the reasons both Democrats and Republicans permit the spreading of misinformation when it articulates a deeper truth that captures their grievances. (@ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240522-top...

New substack post, part b to my piece on why the Israel-Palestine conflict is so intractable: To Lump or Split? Lessons from Penslar vs. Wolfe's Use of "Settler Colonialism" to Analyze Zionism open.substack.com/pub/ezrazuck...

If you want to put a smile on your face with amazement at what’s timeless in the human condition, this always does the trick

Wow— that means a tremendous amount coming from a serious game theorist like you, Heski 🙏🙏🙏 for even reading it!

This is insightful. I've already passed it on to some friends and family.

Colleagues: Over last 10 days, I’ve heard from colleagues at 4 diff universities of similar moral panic- driven misinformation sharing episodes, all which greatly exacerbate panic over #AntiSemitismOnCampus Please email me if you’ve got more cases of this For bkgrround, see x.com/ewzucker/sta...

A challenge these days is how the untutored can invest a bit of time to get a decent level of sophistication & historical context re 🇮🇱-🇵🇸 conflict Here’s what I just recommended to someone & why I also share this essay of mine open.substack.com/pub/ezrazucker…

Incredibly grateful to Yael Berda for this (tinyurl.com/2p9y5mjb) generous & useful chat about my essay on why I-P conflict is so intractable open.substack.com/pub/ezrazucker…) Bc of our chat, my next substack post will be on why, even though ‘subsuming’ a theory in a larger theory often feels+