Hungary’s government wants to shut down its most prominent university. That may be backfiring. Henry Farrell - April 10, 2017 [caption id="attachment_56659" align="aligncenter" width="960"] People protest the bill that would
Kenneth Arrow has died. He changed our view of politics. Pablo Balán - February 23, 2017 [caption id="attachment_54565" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Kenneth J. Arrow of Harvard University
Would Jean-Jacques Rousseau actually approve of Trump? Not exactly. David Lay Williams - January 28, 2017 [caption id="attachment_53221" align="aligncenter" width="960"] President Trump delivers his inaugural address
Racism is a framework, not a theory Andrew Gelman - May 27, 2014 A couple of weeks ago, we had a discussion on
Traditionalist claims that modern art could just as well be replaced by a “paint-throwing chimp” Andrew Gelman - June 23, 2012 Jed Dougherty points me to this opinion piece by Jacqueline
Shooting down B.S. claims about divorce predictions, part 2 (Somewhere, Karl Popper is smiling ruefully) Andrew Gelman - March 13, 2010 Last year, we heard about "maths expert" and Oxford University
Those who don’t know statistics are doomed to . . . rely on statistics anyway Andrew Gelman - June 2, 2009 To paraphrase Bill James, the alternative to doing statistics is