Abandoned Footnotes

(A footnote on Crabtree, Kern, and Siegel, “ Cults of Personality, Preference Falsification, and the Dictator’s Dilemma ”, Journal of Theore...

(Reflections on the nature of charisma and charismatic authority. Applications to current events and people are left as an exercise for the ...

(Of historical interest mostly, though I think it’s a good story). Most people reading this blog probably know about Trofim Lysenko , who,...

I have piece at the Monkey Cage on what flattery in authoritarian regimes might say about flattery in the Trump administration . There is pr...

A rather long post  on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains in...

I recently finished Nina Tumarkin’s fantastic book Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia , which is totally up my alley, as you may i...

(Warning: not about Steve Jobs, or about modern economics). I have a post at the Monkey Cage on Putin’s recent prowess at the hockey rink...