Periodic reminder that <no one> knows the “right” amount of “viewpoint diversity” on campus & you simply can’t be a serious academic institution & have full “viewpoint diversity” when 1 of our 2 political parties is centrally organized around the Big Lie & other lies www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/o...

This is like eavesdropping on one side of a telephone conversation. WTO talks on reforming dispute settlement are secret, as is the 50-page draft. Now 5 WTO members have circulated a response publicly. Fascinating. Thanks to the person who first shared it. docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages...

Sounds like it’s going great btw.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...@adamgrant.bsky.social , while not strictly related to PoliEcon academia, has certainly some food for thought for academia in general. Settling, while being “unamerican”, could be ideal and oftentimes the “best” choice.

Congrats, Houston, on #1, but if you're not familiar with the DFW suburbs, we take #3, #4, and #5 on this the FT's best cities for international business.... Good place to study FDI :)

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