The NYT actually published a column arguing that to accept the American creed to its fullest extent requires a belief in God. In 2026. @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
@bcdreyer.social seems like a lot of unnecessary punctuation.
2 days/wk in office the magic #?
"Workers who spent around 2 days in the office each wk on avg have greater work-life balance, job satisfaction, and lower isolation from colleagues compared to those who spent more or fewer days @ the office." @mitpress.bsky.social
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What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to a US/Israel attack? This classic 2008 article from the @mitpress.bsky.social journal International Security offers an analysis that remains relevant.
Is he being held hostage by @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ?
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Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. "a potent object of collective hatred that consolidates political communities through performative rejection and online “hate-sharing.” @mitpress.bsky.social
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Newly declassified CIA and British intelligence files reveal that the KGB systematically used staged same-sex “compromise” operations against Western diplomats, journalists, and scholars during the Cold War. @mitpress.bsky.social
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Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime - can increasing public school funding can serve as a long-term strategy for crime prevention in the U.S.? Signs are positive. @brittanyvasquez.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/rest/article...
Abstract. This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and performance. Worker...
Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...
In August 1963, The New York Times informed its readers that a U.S. citizen had been arrested in the USSR.1 According to the newspaper, the Soviet travel agency Intourist had announced that Bernard L....
Abstract. This paper asks whether increasing public school funding can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the United States. Specifically, we examine the effect of increases in funding early in children’s lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in public school funding, leveraging two natural experiments in Michigan and a novel administrative data set linking the universe of Michigan public school students to adult criminal justice records. First, research design exploits variation in operating expenditures due to Michigan’s 1994 school finance reform, Proposal A. second design exploits variation in capital spending by leveraging close school district capital bond elections in a regression discontinuity framework. In both cases, we find that students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood. We show that the social benefits of increasing school funding are greater than the costs, even when considering only the crime-reducing benefits.
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How might Iran retaliate in the aftermath of a limited Israeli or U.S. strike? "Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz tops the list of global energy security nightmares," wrote Caitlin Talmadge in 2008 in @intsecurity.bsky.social.
Talmadge's article is freely available to read for 90 days:
Abstract. How might Iran retaliate in the aftermath of a limited Israeli or U.S. strike? The most economically devastating of Iran's potential responses would be closure of the Strait of Hormuz.…
