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Who are Europe's immigration worriers?
A contemporary sociological profile of citizens with anti-immigrant attitudes
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Stop spreading uninformed populist nonsense about mainstream economics
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You should be freaking out about AI
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Yes, strong family ties are bad for society and development
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A few critical takes on Karl Marx's sociological legacy
A group of Slovene sociology students at the Faculty of Social Sciences recently asked me to record a brief podcast with them for a series they’re doing…
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Why is the European hard right gaining electoral support?
Though, yes, we thankfully got rid of Orbán
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Yes, strong family ties are bad for society and development
Looking at the quantitative evidence
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Do we really need to do another round on Trump’s stupid tariffs?
Globalization > tariffs
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Developed democracies virtually never break down
With a few exceptions, Przeworski's law still holds
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You can't analogize the evidence on social media harms to that on smoking!
Not even in a stylized manner
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How does Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" hold up a decade later?
On violence, living standards, inequality, and capitalist democracy
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