Never forget: Most rivals prefer to loathe one another in peace. It’s easy to forget that war shouldn’t happen—and that most of the time it
Criminal governance emerges to regulate violence and black market business when the state can or does not. Even in Toronto. To understand why there’s so
Americans agree on few issues, but one thing they have come together on is condemnation of Russian aggression. Western Europeans too. But not so the
Six *massive* murals span hundreds of feet across the walls of a San Quentin prison food hall, depicting the history of California in epic scale.
After reading many things, talking to colleagues knowledgable about Russia, thinking about parallels to other conflicts, and idly speculating about a place that five months
Putin-centered approaches to Russian politics also assume that President Putin can easily turn his preferences into policy outcomes. To be sure, Putin is the central
These New Yorker cartoons do not exist: A thread of panels created by AI trained on the magazine’s comics But deep learning is probably hitting
On Twitter, it makes me a little uncomfortable that some people seem to follow the trials and tribulations of the Russian army with the same
In light of the current crisis, a journalist reached out for general advice for people who want to make a difference, whether it’s with refugees
After reaching Lviv, I visited the Georgian legion’s new base in nearby Dubliani to meet with Commander Mamuka Mamulashvili. His legion also accepted many other
Illustrator Sam Owen’s creepy muppet series Latecomer’s guide to crypto What we can learn from our political adversaries STDs in the centuries before syphilis From
Jeannie and I played a LOT of board games with the kids over the pandemic. We still do. But if you’re like me, long games
For a Russian opposed to the war, and helpless to do anything about it, the horror is not that incomes will fall 10% this year,
How can we get more ‘output,’ and of the right sort, from policing? The question has only taken on greater importance with recent, widely publicized
How a Putin lookalike banded together with a Kim Jong-un impersonator to smuggle a Zelenzky doppelgänger out of Ukraine [Kim Jong-un impersonator] Howard X told
Interview with Penny Goldberg Duncan Green reviews a history of the rise and power of Constitutions as a global ‘political technology’ Why was Nirmal Purja’s
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has rekindled another, potentially more bitter conflict: the long-running war between international relations school of thought. You may have read the
In 2019 the age-adjusted death rate from an opioid overdose was 21.6 per 100,000 people. This compares with 12.9 for kidney disease, 14.2 from suicides,
Some lessons from the last war seem relevant for the current one. What I’ve been reading: …The Taliban in 2002 were broken. After fleeing Kandahar,
The changing of the guard at the India/Pakistan Wagah/Attari border puts the shame to West Side Story Quote of the week: “My goal is not
Alex Tabarrok had a great interview on Ezra Klein’s podcast. A lot of it is on what we learn from Mancur Olson about the current
