Richard Hanania

Great thread. Science is mostly fake because people don’t want to admit we don’t have the tools to find small effects in the complexity of the real world. We should focus on making policy around big obvious facts that don’t need complex methods, a lot of low-hanging fruit there.

This new paper is the best academic treatment I've seen of how civil rights law led to wokeness. Framed the issue in ways I hadn't thought of before. Must read for those interested in the topic. From @GailHeriot

Great listen. Not many people are discussing the war with anything resembling objectivity, indispensable work. Highly recommended.

John Shifrinson wrote an important paper on how the US broke a no NATO expansion pledge to the Soviet Union, which led us here. He’s apparently been driven off Twitter by the mob that only heard of Ukraine last week. Very fitting for the current moment.

Must-read on the relationship between Zelensky and the Ukrainian far right. These forces would not let him make peace in the East. Think of the relationship between McFaul types and Biden, radicals are driving the conflict.