Chicago, stay strong and take care of one another. For help for your family or to report ICE activities, call 1-855-435-7693 (HELP-MY-FAMILY) Para ayuda para su familia ó para reportar actividades de ICE, llame al: 1-855-435-7693 National Lawyers Guild Chicago Legal Support Hotline: 872-465-4244

REMINDER: @maxkasy.bsky.social has written the definitive account of where this whole "AI" thing is going. Available from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and everywhere on Halloween 🎃

George Will devoted a whole column to @georgeselgin.bsky.social, FALSE DAWN, and our bipartisan dreams about the New Deal: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Bury me with a little bottle of this please

When you tell me you crowdsourced your book’s title and subtitle and actually it’s quite popular

Clara Mattei doing Clara Mattei things

My dog Pearl has been extra cute and funny this week, shoutout to Pearl for being the best

Entering my second week of a bender on this song. I know it’s not new. But it’s now affecting my sleep.

Hyde Parkers walking their doodles off leash with the stupidest self-satisfaction

Leo passed Chicago’s greatest character test

These are actually 15-minute snuggle stories, and the lack of regulation on these claims is a bipartisan issue we should all care about

8-year-old picks up book proposal sitting on kitchen table. “I don’t like this title, so I’m gonna trash it.” What title would be better? “Maisy Takes the Bus, by Lucy Cousins.”

New substack post: taking a break from current events posting to review @hatethegamebook.com's book! With some (somewhat) deeper meditations on self help books, housing, and the similarities between the job and dating markets open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...

“When you are deciding what to leave out, begin with the author. If you see yourself prancing back and forth between the subject and reader, get lost.” Elizabeth Kolbert on John McPhee’s “Encounters with the Archdruid” www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

This Airbnb has guitars and beanbags like a bad dorm room

The Harry Potter books all misuse the word comprise. Who do I tell about this?

These poor decisions are going in the book box

A Chicago man with vanity plate “FISCAL” just honked at me and my children as we crossed at a crosswalk

shareholder primacy has always been about increasing power & wealth for the corporate elite, whether shareholder or manager so this Delaware move makes sense I wrote a book about it press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Joined Costco yesterday. They sell prepper kits!

Perfect setup and execution in the comments of NYT Cooking

Got my advance of one of the books I’m most excited about this year. The Unaccountability Machine, from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, explains so much of what’s maddening (and in the worst cases, deadly) about contemporary life. In bookstores everywhere April 1—pre-order at your local now!

Pearl on pile of reading and one parking ticket

I met economist Clara Mattei

Found in the little library

People I admire have started using ellipses in casual writing and I’m just going to have to stop admiring them

Just when I thought today couldn’t get any worse

Clara Mattei and THE CAPITAL ORDER reviewed in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Asking a friend to explain crypto and it keeps getting worse

One reason (among many) that soccer can’t scale in the US is that American media can’t resist speaking and writing in affected European terms about the sport. It’s insufferable. This is from @theathleticfc.bsky.social: what does “fine form” mean? That they’re in shape?

Put Sam Sifton on the opinion page

We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Qing Wang and @adamtooze.bsky.social to publish PW articles in translation as a new column on Chartbook’s Chinese edition. First up, @andrewelrod.bsky.social on Bidenomics and the tectonic forces arranged around US tax and fiscal policy.

This recipe is lifted from the episode of Daniel Tiger where Daniel tries new foods

If we zoom, just know I am being pestered by this

SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...

Jon Klassen's I WANT MY HAT BACK is a classic in my household. Here Klassen talks about the importance of writing for readers, as opposed to writing at them. It's a useful pep-talk for anyone struggling to write something, which is most of us most of the time. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

IN: Buying children’s Advil because it’s on sale, even if you’re traveling without children, even if you’re only in this Berkeley grocery store to use their bathroom. (I’m at #ASSA btw if anyone else is around.)

The Allied Social Sciences Association meeting has started, and you can now browse our virtual exhibit! Get 30% off and free shipping in the US with our promo code EX57856 here: bit.ly/UCPASSA. #ASSA2025

We may not be in the exhibit hall for #ASSA2025, but you can still chat with our acquistions editor @chadzimmerman.bsky.social who's in San Francisco for the meeting!

WINTER BREAK BOOK REVIEWS This one was better than the reviews. Loved it. Best book of the year IMO.

Happy holidays to everyone except those with off-leash dogs

Reading pile is very tall. Some of these are abandoned because they’re terrible. Some of them were good and need shelved. Kushner book is my favorite of the year.

What can big data and other 'non-standard' do to improve measurement of productivity? Erica Groshen explains in launch of our new book, The Measure of Economies. Video. www.youtube.com/live/aVaISsh...

Asked bookseller at Seminary Coop if I needed to read Sally Rooney. Her: “I’m not sure I’m the right age for her” Me: “Yeah, me either” Her: “Oh you’re DEFINITELY not” Age comes on so fast.

This beautiful book (with its Rousseau cover) publishes soon. Galbraith and Chen ask: is the idea of economic equilibrium kind of… bad?

Tried reading my first 33 1/3 book. I’m not certain they’re even copyediting these things.