Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Even fascism is no match for the All-Conquering Power and Holy Terror of the Soul-Destroyer, the Word that Breaks Wills and Slows Time — the Environmental Impact Statement.
another quirk in the econometrica paper is all spatial autocorrelation is viewed as misspecification and i cant understand how their approach works any time you have legitimate spillover in X or Y?
arent they proposing griffith-style spatial filtering?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
on the one hand, it's dope to see spatial analysis win Econometrica's best paper (!)
on the other, it's so deeply troubling that this statement is news to economists in 2026
*stares blankly in Regional Science*
here's Luc and Dan, a mere forty years ago, discussing the inferential issues in spatial regression, which were already very well-known at the time
starting to think podcasts are the problem
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.
Finally updated the search engine behind econlit-db to Meilisearch. Everything should be quite fast now -- under a second or two. Let me know if you have any bugs. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...