Scott Abramson

Universities have an enormously positive economic impact on communities across the country. Think what they might be able to do if they tried banding together instead of waiting to be picked off one by one.

I think Jhoan Duran is still a nice upgrade for y'all.

Buckingham Nicks

Something like 3/4 of CEOs are Republicans. Can the next Democratic administration (if there is ever again a fair election) impose viewpoint diversity on them?

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The Ballad of Wallis Island asks "What if Richard and Linda Thompson were born 40 years later and forced to reunite on a remote island off the English coast?" It is not about a formal theory conference in Rochester, NY.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵

Reminders:

"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.

Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.

Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.

Never again is now.

Opinion | Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews Antisemitism is real. But the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.

Roth, again, clear-eyed and not mincing words:

"Jew hatred is real, but today’s anti-antisemitism isn’t a legitimate effort to fight it. It’s a cover for a wide range of agendas that have nothing to do with the welfare of Jewish people."

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

Once again, I ask what exactly folks have seen over the last three months to make them really believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & competitive?

Bill Kristol is doing it. You can do it too. You can stop writing false equivalence op-eds and donating to Third Way.

As Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs announcement tanks markets, remember: his billionaire supporters knew this was coming. They backed him anyway. They knowingly sacrificed our economic prosperity to protect their elaborate tax avoidance schemes and privileges—despite gaining 64.6% under Biden.

Trump says his tariffs will raise $6 trillion.

Assuming that's over 10 years, that's $600 billion per year.

There are 134 million households, so this is nearly $5,000 per household per year.

And it's like a sales tax, so it's a flat tax. A huge hit to the budgets of working folks.

I think I know what I will be showing my relatives next week.

When is it enough?

Admit DC, PR, Guam...

As the service academies purge libraries of books Hegseth doesn’t like, remember what Eisenhower, a West Point grad, said on the matter: “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

The party of limited government and free markets folks...

This harm to the US national interest is permanent, inexcusable, and so bizarrely unnecessary

This.

Everyone is blaming Waltz, but why did no one—not even the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—say that they should not be discussing classified information on Signal.

The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care

the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real

We are hiring a pre-doc at Stanford to work on (among other things) a project called Public Pulse, which will provide reports on public opinion in the US, and potentially fill the void of things like 538. Please share with your undergrads. iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2025-...

It's been a complicated week for a number of reasons, but I am very happy that my paper with Stathis N. Kalyvas, "Ideology and Revolution in Civil War: The 'Marxist Paradox'”, has been accepted for publication at the @apsrjournal.bsky.social [note: this ms has not been handled by my editorial team]