Jeff Anderson

The only thing better than being a father is watching your sons become even better dads. Happy Father’s Day to all who grow the next generation.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqga... And now for something completely different — a religious figure who is tough on crime… The Bishop

Trump Attacks Pope Leo as Too Liberal and ‘Weak on Crime’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u... Love these teaching moments. Children, this is NOT an example of “it takes one to know one.”

Fascists are fragile. They depend on hierarchy in a world where hierarchy makes you vulnerable. Important to remember that a win yesterday is not a loss for all time.

Hungary's Viktor Orban, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, concedes defeat in a general election, breaking the momentum of a global nationalist revival promoted by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

It’s so hard to parse my feelings for this country when we do something so fundamentally awe-inspiring on the same day SCOTUS heard a case questioning birthright and Trump’s gonna go on tv tonight & talk gibberish about our needless war against Iran. Our best and our worst chaotically intertwining.

Watching the Artemis II launch. It’s like the last couple of years didn’t reach NASA yet. A woman overseeing the launch from the ground. A black man, and woman, and a Canadian on the crew. A blast from the recent past. Fingers crossed it goes well. And there’s every reason to believe it will.

The Jetsons lied to us

You thought NATO was going to break up over Greenland?! Guess again (and you could still be half right!). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran

Congratulations to Emerson, Lake & Palmer for winning the Grammy for Best Concept Album About An Armadillo Tank for the 54th year in a row

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

wapo.st/45CaNrY Your brand is toxic, Mr. President.

If there's a "Top Five Most Annoying Things University Colleagues Do", this is surely on it: "Course assignment: Interview an expert at [your university] about the topic you have chosen to research." Sigh... It's enough of a challenge to stay above water up with our own students #AcademicSky

What is place‑based policy and why does it matter today? In the latest Productivity Puzzles, @bartvanark.bsky.social talks with @jefeja.bsky.social & @andywestwood.bsky.social about their new research. Listen: podfollow.com/productivity... Read the research: www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the...

The Europeans just don’t get it. The only thing this administration understands is muscle. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Donald Trump’s fury over the Greenland deployment of a few European troops h

Improving the productivity of second tier cities. The latest ep. of Productivity Puzzles looks at place-based policy: podfollow.com/productivity... @bartvanark.bsky.social is joined by @andywestwood.bsky.social & @jefeja.bsky.social discussing new research: www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the...

"The coffins with three Danish soldiers killed in Helmand, Afghanistan, arriving in Denmark in Dec. 2008." ""Krestine Havemann/Polfoto, via Associated Press" archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.b...

It’s time for UEFA and CONMEBOL to start discussing a joint boycott of the 2026 World Cup

It’s time for UEFA and CONMEBOL to start discussing a joint boycott of the 2026 World Cup

the only saving grace (no pun intended) for the US is the fact that the Pope is an American with a big heart and rock solid humanist values. If we get out of these times with any semblance of a global reputation still intact, it may well be down to him. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... To promote a level playing field for all students, I give *every* student more time: paper deadline + 3-day grace period. Might not work in some disciplines/courses (in-class exams), but it does in mine. #AcademicSky

Bill Ackman has begun writing a tweet that he will finish at midnight.

No truer words have ever been said.

I've been teaching contemporary politics for nearly 40 years (Emory, Brown, now Georgetown) and *never* experienced anything even remotely like the inflection point Lepore describes. Hard to describe this as anything other than pandering to the self-appointed critics of universities.

Obama and his dog in the East Colonnade, now destroyed.

A bold new economic program for America, by Martin Carnoy, Michael Reich, and Derek Shearer irle.berkeley.edu/publications...

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Brilliant, erudite, and funny. apple.news/AU7x4AK1fS3W...

question for #AcademicSky -- received an AI subsidiary aggregation addendum from my publisher for a book that came out some years ago. Are you signing these kinds of agreements? I'm inclined to reject the request, but have no feel for the consequences/implications either way.

People be like "it's an authoritarian police state but with dopes", and the subtext I'm getting is "authoritarians get misremembered as non-dopes". Like... no, my friend, authoritarianism is just what you get when impulse-driven doinks run the show. It wasn't called "Triumph of the Smarts".

Why are the Port Vale supporters booing Saka? Yes Eze! #Arsenal

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

Looking forward to the official launch of "The World's Worst Bet" on Sept. 9th. If you're in the Washington area, please swing by www.csis.org/events/book-...

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

Received this today. When I listened to it, I discovered to my horror that AI was attributing the arguments of the book's author to me, the book reviewer. I informed Academia that they might want to reconsider this new service for subscribers if they want to keep their subscribers. #AcademicSky

THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all. Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“