This is pretty much where I am. Ya'll know that I'm more conservative than most of the folks here. But Trump v. United States changed things. An unaccountable president is a dictator. No fear of criminal prosecution for himself plus the pardon power equals the end of the Constitution.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A compelling interpretation of the man that leading Norwegian politicians chose to eulogize today. (Do they think NATOs future depends on emulating Graham’s sycophancy?)

Vi må kanskje leve med at våre politikere smisker for drittsekker når de lever og har makt, men er det virkelig nødvendig å fortsette etterpå?

Biddery-Askery Myerson-Satterthwaite Proved that two bargainers, Values concealed, Can't trade both truthfully, Solvent and rational, Ex-post-efficiently Deals stay unsealed.

The Cover-Up in Gino v Harvard datacolada.org/136

He can’t help telling the truth about how much he lies

I was a regular user of Facebook and was kicked off the platform without explanation within hours of my posting excerpts from Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People, which revealed embarrassing details from the life of Mark Zuckerberg, particularly his dealings with Chinese president Xi.

🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…

As long as the government remains on the fascist enabling X nobody can take anything they say seriously with regards to social media and safety

”What is more surprising is that the European Union is collaborating with Trump’s effort to destroy the legal framework that has governed international trade since the 1940s.”

Last push, for those who missed it. I promise, won’t talk about this again…

Erik’s thread is much better than mine!

Ellingsen and Mohlin on how to formalize different kinds of duties - e.g. asking about the tradeoffabilility between a duty and its material cost. 👏🏼

Is unselfish behavior primarily driven by desire or by duty? Erik Mohlin and I don’t settle this question. However, by developing and testing a model of social duties, we allow the question to be addressed: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... (ungated version at my home page) 1/10

Här är ett kortfattat svar till Fredrik Segerfeldts inlägg på DN debatt i dag.

Formerly prominent, surely?

I sense that the maga base might be identified at 39%.

Nog borde regeringen kunna svara ”ja” på frågan: - Gäller folkrätten lika för alla stater?

Polarization happens www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

#NoKings in Chicago.

EFN har gjort ett reportage om Tore Ellingsens (@toreellingsen.bsky.social) och min forskning om plikt och plikt-baserad motivation efn.se/play/pliktka... Tack till de alla de inblandade duktiga journalisterna!

Surely, Sanna Marin (former Finnish Prime Minister) must now salvage what is left of her reputation and leave the Tony Blair Institute?

Yes. Ending the excessive legal protections of US Big Tech is obviously the first step in Europe’s retaliation.

etidning.dn.se/shared/artic... Viktiga frågor, insiktsfull recension.

Så här blir det när man är arg när man skriver. www.dn.se/kultur/anna-...

Many thanks for the kind words, Scott! I’ll immediately update the book’s companion site, where I post lecture notes and more: sites.google.com/view/tore-el...

Is there already a term for overconsumption of negative news about doomscrolling?

”Last night in Sweden,” in contrast to what you may have heard, rates of lethal violence were at record lows ⤵️

I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643

The analysis is on point 🎯 and the framing is a chef 💋. "Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession. He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...

Om man vill göra kriminalpolitiken enklare att utvärdera, kanske man skulle experimentera med olika åldersgränser i olika regioner? Varför inte?

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors-we mean we stab them in it.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

Exactly. The news media did- and is still- not doing its job. Sane-washing or whatever you want to call it.

What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward? A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

Unfortunately the questions and contents of this thread is something military leaders need to think about today.

But in Chotiner’s recent interview with Cass Sunstein in New Yorker, Sunstein claims that ”Alito is an extremely careful lawyer and a very precise judge” so I am sure this ruling must be respecting liberal principles.

Prediction: Guehi’s performance will now drop until he moves elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

A brave and powerful statement. More people need to speak up about what they are seeing, rather than keeping their heads down and hoping that the administration's ill-informed and spiteful destruction of American institutions will somehow stop when confronted only with silence.

Europe is selling its soul to Trump

The Draghi-report’s proposals about joint borrowing to fund EU-wide investments are more relevant than ever. An under-appreciated benefit is that joint debt would create a deeper euro currency market, potentially breaking the dollar’s dominance (a major source of US political power).