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I wish people would stop explaining every meh debate performance by a woman as a function of gender. Yes, there are challenges, but Elizabeth Warren is a good debater! Not

For Trump supporting friends who think I'm overdiscounting his chances of winning next month-- "You said the same thing about Clinton"... well, first of all, I was actually less bullish

I used to get letters from tenure-track but untenured profs saying "Please don't print this, I'm not tenured" ("this" being some mainstream conservative opinion like "abortion is wrong".) Now for

Well, I've had the weekend to round up the responses to my column on cancel culture, so now I'll run through them. A lot of them will be familiar from

I tweeted a funny remark from upthread, but you should read the whole thing: two smart and well-informed people hashing out whether the downsides of social media could, or could

79% of unemployed or furloughed people support keeping the lockdowns going even at the expense of jobs--actually *higher than the general population*. "Open up" has always been about small biz

Yeah, I've seen several people confidently stating "Humans have never successfully made a coronavirus vaccine", which just isn't true; we have them for animal diseases. And we've never had such

I don't need cozy recipes to use up those lazy hours at home. I need recipes for stuff you can cook in the amount of time that it is reasonable

This is not a scientific assessment, just an idle speculation, and please take it in that light, but, looking at all the infections at choir practice, soccer games, restaurants, etc,

Going to take a stab at explaining what this might mean, and why it matters.https://twitter.com/paulbohm/status/1252977663796371458 So basically, there's been a lot of discussion of whether covid produces a lot of

I stand accused of excess negativity on studies showing that covid19 is already extremely widespread, and therefore, that the infection fatality rate is very low.The accusation is that I am

For all the screaming about how out-of-touch elites who still have jobs are wrecking the lives of poorer people, the actual working class people I know are not eager to