En pocos días José Barreiro cruzará la frontera y regresará del exilio casi noventa años después. De Chaum🇫🇷 a Sama de Langreo, dibujé su historia para La Nueva España.👇 www.lne.es/asturias/202...

Sunday

77% of conservative Republicans prefer bigger houses in drivable communities 65% of liberal Democrats prefer smaller houses in more walkable places https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/02/majority-of-americans-prefer-a-community-with-big-houses-even-if-local-amenities-are-farther-away/

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

I detected a “Mourinho” wifi in our Madrid neighborhood, so appropriate measures were taken

Unwanted finding: iPhone chargers still work after a full washing machine cycle

About D voters registering as R in deep-red states. I find the arguments in section “How Good Intentions Create Bad Outcomes” much more compelling than the ones in “The Myth of Strategic Voting” elevatepac.substack.com/p/stop-prete...

Oh crap

Econ history family: incoming book alert! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I really appreciate how Dr. Glaucomflecken has become all of medicine and public health's emotional support ophthalmologist. I sat through 16 hours of ACIP meetings last week. If I do not laugh, I will cry.

The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks @echistsoc.bsky.social for inviting me. ehs.org.uk/multimedia/t...

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today. The reason involves greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and of women, from Claudia Goldin https://www.nber.org/papers/w34268

It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

📹 VÍDEO | Netanyahu modifica su ruta de vuelo a Estados Unidos ante la amenaza de un posible arresto por crímenes de guerra en Gaza y evita sobrevolar España y Francia social.elpais.com/_icko7

Take your time, don't rush it to avoid the mistakes that other people made, and see you on the coaching side (and thank you for all these years in the field, of course) www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Taking back control. Where did I hear this before?

Hem… ¿cómo?, ¿es un término realmente aceptable? Me suena francamente mal (es de un libro para niños cuyo tono hasta ahora había sido normal)

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

The state as a stationary bandit in quite a literal way

Spain’s Health Ministry posting against the lies on acetaminophen and pregnancy. Pigouvian tax on the US badly needed.

[Podcast] “A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes to “This American Life” the dismantling of [US] immigration court system from the inside.” www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

New PhD-student run journal in the history of economics, Oikonomos, has just published its first issue oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...

Happy to see @victoriagierok.bsky.social argue ‘ “The state made war and war made the state” does not describe very aptly what happened during pre-industrial Europe’s largest wars’ in a recent paper on wealth destruction in urban Germany during the Thirty Years' War. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

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Good (i.e., depressing) podcast on US colleges today. The first story features Utah, its anti-DEI legislation, and the U. www.thisamericanlife.org/867/college-...

Good summary of the H-1B situation by @sampeak.bsky.social

Si el Gobierno busca reducir la criminalidad, bastaría con quitar la licencia federativa al Getafe

Este artículo de @mariaramirez.bsky.social sobre lo que la distracción constante en la que vivimos significa para la política. Con una gran ilustración, muchas claves interesantes y citas a ensayos de Neil Postman, Chris Hayes y Tim Wu. Léelo hasta el final www.eldiario.es/cultura/corr...

Finished Scurati’s fourth volume of M.’s series. Good to see how a scary, cruel, and authoritarian regime starts disintegrating due to its ineptitude, unpopularity, and personalism.

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Si ves esto, postea un videojuego que te lleve a la infancia.

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

@sanpages.bsky.social está que se sale 🚀 🚀 Otra super entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san...

Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.

Incredibly dangerous and scary times. The average Bluesky user should probably decrease their levels of doomerism, and the average US citizen should probably increase their alarm levels.

1. La ruina 2. Tenía la duda 3. Malas personas 4. La palestra candente 5. El Olimpo de las diosas [All from Spain, and mostly comedy because, you know: countercyclicality]

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

Mi entrada sobre inmigración y crimen en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social ha tenido más comentarios que ninguna otra publicada en el blog desde 2018. ¿Para felicitarme? No, para decirme que "es innegable", que "es obvio" que la inmigración causa crimen. Estos son algunos de los culpables.

Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter

Interested in a take that situates the Cook saga -- and concerns about the erosion of Fed independence -- in a broader theoretical framework? Then, check out the updated version of this working paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. gratton.org/papers/Techn...

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

one relevant starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?