RIP to Kris Kristofferson, country musician and the greatest villain in John Sayles’ greatest movies, Lone Star and Limbo.

Protip for fusion restaurants trying to make burgers, pasta, etc. “Korean” by putting gochujang on everything: you’re using the wrong sauce. Use ssamjang instead. It’s much tastier.

The Finkelstein firing is a case of a cowardly university caving to an astroturf bot-driven smear campaign, and in the process threatening to end academic freedom for all scholars in the US. I hope she sues them for millions.

Honestly a 40% approval rating is pretty good for an Argentinian president

Argentina’s poverty rate soars above 50% under Javier Milei

Latest data blamed on government austerity measures as radical libertarian’s popularity wanes

Great research project and nice addition to the literature on labor market impacts of migration shocks (mostly null) testing with DiD

Insights from Colombia's massive regularisation of Venezuelan forced migrants

The regularisation of Venezuelan migrants had no significant effects on labour markets, political and social cohesion among Colombian natives, or crimes committed against Colombians while it enhanced ...

Congrats to Bibi for finding another way to stay out of jail a little longer

States and universities trying to destroy tenure are going to drive a mass exodus from academia and turn the US university system from the envy of the world into a joke. Because they think our only job is to teach, and parrot whatever political opinions they think are acceptable.

Let’s not forget “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes.” Gladwell’s career is a reminder of the very low standards for being a public intellectual in the US, where you can spout ideas that are racist and empirically wrong, and say you’re just sparking a conversation.

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This is infuriating because of his usual song-and-dance of sloppy research and lack of introspection. It sounds good to say “[in] a book that is 25 years old, stuff should be wrong”, but him promoting broken windows policing is different — and way more harmful — than some random bad take.

Malcolm Gladwell Holds His Ideas Loosely. He Thinks You Should, Too.

As he releases “Revenge of The Tipping Point,” the best-selling journalist talks about broken windows theory, Joe Rogan and changing his mind.

Since it’s academic job market season, remember: the skills you pick up in your PhD program are extremely valuable beyond academia, so don’t think a TT R1 job is the only measure of your worth

What many people don’t understand about transnational criminal groups like Tren de Aragua is that they primarily prey on their own communities, I tell World News

Venezuelan street gang terrorizing U.S. migrant communities

Tren de Aragua is preying on enclaves of immigrants in American cities