A quick bit of housekeeping before today’s column: This reader column was originally scheduled to run last Friday, but we rescheduled following the debate.
The National Basketball Association probably isn’t looking for any constructive criticism. The league is on the verge of signing one of the largest TV deals in the history of professional sports, and new teams are almost certainly set to…
If you compare Mexico to Iceland on almost any basic counting metric, you’d probably conclude that the aggregate achievements of Mexico are dramatically more impressive.
The whole notion of “misinformation” as conventionally construed has taken some blows lately, including scandals in the misinformation research field and, more importantly, some great work from Brendan Nyhan, Emily Thorson, and co-authors…
This week, I’m recommending Steve Teles’ essay “Beyond Academic Sectarianism,” which pleads with America’s professor community to take concerns about ideological homogeneity undermining the purpose of the university seriously.
It’s a federal holiday, which means no full-length post. But there was a question in last week’s poll that I personally thought was interesting, so even though it wasn’t the winner, I’m going to share a bonus answer here today.