May 31, 2019
What Would a Basic Income Look Like?
Lots of folks who are sympathetic to the idea of a basic income guarantee, and many folks who aren’t, have questions about the details of what such a policy would…
May 27, 2019
English vs Economics: Two Graphs
Full-time US faculty at four-year colleges, in two disciplines, vs. majors in those disciplines over time.
May 23, 2019
Political Activism and Research Ethics Revisited
If you spend any time in academia, it’s not hard to find researchers engaging in political activism. In fact, there often are norms encouraging it. In an influential article, BHL contributor…
May 22, 2019
Spooner Volumes Published
Phil Magness has performed a great service for the history of individualist anarchism by tracking down and publishing some of Lysander Spooner’s hardest-to-find works, in two volumes: Two Treatises on…
May 17, 2019
On Reading Entrails and Student Evaluations
In Cracks in the Ivory Tower, we note that empirical work overwhelmingly shows that students evaluations are reliable but invalid measures of teaching effectiveness. Some early results were positive, but…
May 15, 2019
Paul Gunn’s Forthcoming Hatchet Job in Critical Review
Paul Gunn has a “critique” of Against Democracy forthcoming in Critical Review (the Jeff Friedman journal, not the of International… one.) The positions and arguments Gunn attributes to me are unrecognizable,…