Abandoned Footnotes

Not much happened on this blog this year, except for two announcements (for my new book and a software package for extending the Unified D...

My new book, Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization has been out for a few weeks ( Palgrave , Amazon ...

(Apologies for the lack of posting - I've been finishing some big projects. This is of interest primarily to people who care about quant...

Happy solstice, everyone! It’s been a good year here at Abandoned Footnotes HQ. On the more academic side of things, three papers deriv...

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...

When asked, “What do you know about Yugoslavia?” the peasant, painstaking and placid, answered, “It is a pseudosocialist country run by rev...

About six months ago, Tom Pepinsky wrote a post , on the occasion of Lee Kuan Yew’s death, where he argued graphically that Lee Kuan Yew’s ...