Far down the list was a line that read “New Keynesian macroeconomics deserves a Nobel”. Somehow I never got around to writing ...

“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.” — Ernest Hemingway What is the greatest city on Earth? If you answered “New York City”, I wouldn’t laugh at you.

It’s easy to tune these posts out, for at least two reasons. One is partisanship — as a reader, I’m sure you know how hard it is to separate “Trump is bad” from “Trump made me mad”. The second is ...

“Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the land from which his forefathers came and ...

Back when I was a teenager, a lot of people were very into the Left Behind series. Evangelical Christianity was still very strong in those days, especially in Texas, and Left Behind blew up by putting ...

After days of thinking about the possibility that AI might kill all of humanity, it’s almost a relief to be able to write about a lighter topic — like how the xenophobic Right is threatening to tear ...

I’m a little late to this story, but New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a very complex and interesting post about sending her daughter to a crappy New York City public school. She was ...

Americans never asked for a lesson in East European history, but we’re getting one. Tucker Carlson, exiled from Fox News and now broadcasting mainly on Twitter X, recently traveled to Russia to ...

Ross Barkan recently wrote an op-ed calling for a large expansion of public housing. He’s broadly right — this would be a good thing to do. But there are a number of significant obstacles that stand ...

Oren Cass, the founder of the think tank American Compass, is probably the leading intellectual voice of MAGA economics. In a recent blog post, he discusses the question of whether economic forces are ...

The 2022 Econ Nobel went to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig for their work on banking and financial crises. This award is, in my opinion, richly deserved — very few economists have ...

I remember, when I graduated, there was this guy I knew who was very disappointed with his university experience — so disappointed that he made us all listen to a poem he wrote about it. The poem was ...