SNF Agora, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Monkey Cage. Crooked Timber. But none of this is their fault.
This kind of piece - connecting deep political science knowledge to what is happening in actual politics - is what we live to publish.
The widening of US sanctions targets is an important and under-discussed story.
Worth reading
Non-spontaneous-human-combustion @IChotiner interviews don’t get nearly as much love as they deserve, but this with @rianjohnson [link] is really quite excellent on both the practice and thought that goes into movie making.
As an aside - some claims in Pascal Boyer’s Minds Make Societies that I’m not at all sure I agree with - but it is an essential book for social scientists to read.
Lots of good stuff in this book.
On the report that Yale is pulling out of the US News and World Report rankings, lots of good stuff on the role these rankings play in Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder's book, Engines of Anxiety.
This is a very interesting conclusion from a really interesting thread
This is a fantastic thread, and interesting sequel to the echo chambers piece.
Not really what you are looking for but Fareed Zakaria’s book-of-his-dissertation is quite interesting on this.
This article by @deGoede9 [link] draws some of the connections more explicitly than we do. There is also a strong body of work in history on infrastructure and empire, which I would love to be able to draw on/in more.
