Abandoned Footnotes

(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...

There was a bit more activity on this blog than last year , though still very little (only 5 posts); my New Year’s resolution is to write mo...

The Manchus had their own aristocracy of a kind, formed from the descendants of Nurhaci and other famous warriors, and from the powerful C...

(Mostly a disorganized discussion of Richard Stites’ superb Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolu...

(More substantive content soon! This is mostly of interest to political scientists, R users, and people concerned with the measurement of d...

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...

No, not that post . Just me talking about the uses of lies in politics , which may interest some readers here. Posts at the Monkey Cage a...

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...