Found this article...

Got a lot of these.  Gotta get 'em out there. 

“If we are to understand how politics and markets work at the moment, we need to pay attention to how algorithms work, and how the economy is being remade from the ground up by these new forms of information processing.” Well this is a bit hyperbolic, isn’t it, but Henry Farrell is a political scientist, and they’re not...

No real reason to say these are for Father's Day.  But it is Father's Day!  And here are some links.

My UVA colleague and friend Gregory Fairchild has published a piece on his family and the Tulsa "race riot," which was actually an attempt by whites to annihilate a successful black...

There's just a lot of good stuff out there.

A careful analysis of why rural areas in the US have a greater susceptibility to harm from COVID-19.  Key factors are: a significantly larger number of older people, and significantly fewer hospitals, and...

Just to while away the hours.

A good backgrounder on Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the economists (really we should call them by the older and more honorable title of “political economists” at this point) behind the rising attention over the past few years to “deaths of despair” in the white working class. This piece is worth reading only to see how they...

I'm way behind on sharing these.  I know you guys have been waiting.  Here they are!  

Writers have rituals.  But what exactly constitutes a ritual in this case?  

Pretty...

I am reading William Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers, in the old Oxford “World’s Classics” series—which I bought for £1.99 in a charity shop here in Oxford, which was quite a bargain for this amazing work—and I come across this:

Anything is sufficient to keep contempt upon an object; even the bare suggestion of a mischievous allusion to what is improper, dissolves the whole charm, and puts an end to our...

Fiona Hill—remember her from the Ukraine hearings?  Seems like a million years ago, doesn’t it?—on expertise.  She’s just as impressive here.   

How is the internet shaping us?  Why is outrage so common on-line?  A...

Presidents don’t just execute policy, or design plans, or haggle with legislators, and oversee and manage a large bureaucracy.  They also present, in a way, as the first human among us—the one who will register reality in their body, on their face, in the tone of their voice.  They incarnate the nation, in a way.  That is part of the magic of their charisma, and it can never be reduced to a bureaucratic algorithm.  It is foolish to imagine a candidate for president will not be judged as a person.  It’s part of why presidential elections can so easily feel...

It's a Friday.  I'm feeling generous!  Here, plebs, have some links.  (I sprinkle them to you, from my chariot, as I pass by.)

Helpful piece, for non-scientists, on how to read a scientific paper.

Basically, Gen X is still falling between the cracks here, but Millennials and Gen Z are doing...