Congratulations to @georgeselgin.bsky.social, whose FALSE DAWN from @uchicagopress.bsky.social is one of WSJ’s Top Ten Books of the Year!

When word circulates in Hyde Park that @hatethegamebook.com is in town, there’s a line for her

This angel was just found on UChicago campus. DM if you’re looking to meet her! What a dream.

Ray Madoff explains how the US has made it all too easy for the wealthy to avoid playing taxes. slate.trib.al/bNUJLog

“We might hope that keeping our own data private could protect each of us from unwanted outcomes. But A.I. doesn’t need to know what you have been doing; it only needs to know what people like you have done before,” Maximilian Kasy writes.

**a mere fraction** of the erudition and incision of Max Kasy’s just-published THE MEANS OF PREDICTION, available now from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and featured in today’s Sunday @nytimes.com:

Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p... (by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social) 1/n

Ray Madoff and Gary Gulman in a heartwarming and funny Q&A about THE SECOND ESTATE at New York Public Library via @uchicagopress.bsky.social

For those not in Chicago: It would be hard to overstate how broad & intense the public reaction & activity against ICE’s kidnappings are. This is a movement of everyday people who are going to do everything in their admittedly limited power to make it harder for these people to take their neighbors.

The secret tax lives of billionaires are worse than you think. A fantastic and typically cinematic INET feature on Ray Madoff and THE SECOND ESTATE, publishing this week from @uchicagopress.bsky.social.

Story in the local newspaper makes my children sound like nuns. It’s my fault, but also a clinical overcorrection to being an adult who’s lived his life as a Chad.

This is a really nice escape of a book, as the title implies

The Goldfinch is really happening!

One kid’s sign was “CHILDREN ARE GOOD -MARGARET”; the other was “Trump lives in Slytherin.” After the march they were interviewed for the newspaper!

I paid off my student loans today

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?