Good thread to share with those who question the value of viewpoint diversity (Eg www.aaup.org/academe/issu...)

For 478 (literal) swing voters, your vote really did matter www.pressherald.com/2025/11/05/b...

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

According to Google AI I have coined the term "affective polarization" 😆

When the President of the United States of America starts bragging about his results on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for dementia.

"Provalus looks for small towns where incomes are low and people are eager for positions that will teach them 21st-century skills" Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

www.chronicle.com/article/trum... @brendannyhan.bsky.social did you see this? Thoughts?

This. The president can't extort corporations to pay essentially taxes to him personally so that he can use that money at his personal discretion to do government work.

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

Consumer activism can actually work

For your mental accounts slides www.reddit.com/r/personalfi...

Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon: “He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Is this a good time to remind everyone (as the article covers at length) that there is effectively no regulation by the FDA or any other government body of any supplement? And that the definition of "supplement" is very, very wide?

This actually looks like useful advice www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Backward induction for the win (via The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel, ht Justin Welsh)

“The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser” -Melville

Good summary of the speech debate www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

😅👍👏https://www.jericoliver.com/about-me

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Delete Yik Yak www.pressherald.com?p=7506232&uu...

Good concrete advice toward the end of this hbr.org/2025/11/a-sm...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... Very good to confirm this: the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats (still) do not think of the other party as "the enemy"

"Chinatown? Only in New York!" -Marge

I wish people who think a lot about politics would try harder to reconcile their actual lifestyle choices with their stated views. www.slowboring.com/p/live-your-...

Rest of world already pouncing. @bloomberg.com @reuters.com #H1B www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bowdoin econ is hiring two assistant professors! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... This place is pretty great - see e.g. www.google.com/search?q=wha... (Doesn't even mention the full year full pay junior sabbatical...) Let me know any questions !

Thrilled to share that our article “Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events” is forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). (with C. K. Becker, T. Melkonyan, @andissofianos.bsky.social Sofianos, S.T. Trautmann) (1/5) 👉 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...

Student visas dropped to a four year low. Trump also cuts spending on research by hundreds of billions on college campuses. This is how you end American exceptionalism. I gifted this article so you can read it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saving America from Trump and preserving our democracy explicitly requires that people who voted for Trump change their mind. Which in turn requires that those who didn’t vote for Trump show grace and empathy to those whose change of heart came from being hurt by the guy they voted for…

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/why-build-... More good stuff from @jonathanstray.bsky.social

A nicely done story about Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys: umbc.edu/stories/denn...

Obvious but not obvious to so many of us www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

"The number of deaths in politically motivated terrorist attacks is so tiny that any statistical analysis is extremely fragile. However, there is one consistent finding from analyses of politically motivated terrorism: There aren’t many deaths." www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politicall...

Not sure if it's relatively bad or good timing to share this but... Some encouraging news re polarization in a new working paper with Jack Banks (Bowdoin 2027): LLM-measures of *lack of* hostility in campaign rhetoric robustly predict electoral success for US gubernatorial candidates from 2010-2023

Teaching Bayes today...

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 #econsky Emily Cook, Paola Ugalde, and I are thrilled to share "Political Views and College Choices in a Polarized America" — now out with both @iza.org and @annenberginstitute.bsky.social EdWorkingPapers www.iza.org/publications... edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1280

Scott Alexander on humans vs AI www.astralcodexten.com/p/what-is-ma...

Maybe just threatening to use this could be pretty effective papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Vivid illustration of audience capture.

Favor allowing any voter to vote by mail Democrats 83% Republicans 32% Favor at least two weeks of early, in-person voting Democrats 89% Republicans 71% https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/08/22/majority-of-americans-continue-to-back-expanded-early-voting-voting-by-mail-voter-id/

People don't know what a 'supply shock' is and associate new housing with higher prices because in their experience these are usually positively correlated (because in reality new housing is usually driven by demand)

Alright #econsky fam, what are your fav replacements for written “reading responses” (a couple of paragraphs that go beyond summarizing) for undergrads? Worked well before LLMs and with a smaller class size.

Yes, interior solutions are usually optimal! bt.e-ditionsbyfry.com/publication/...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal