I’m so confused by everything about the RFK candidacy.

His team says they want to defeat Biden above all. Also Trump asked him to be VP. So the plan is to defeat Biden by running … against Trump? What am I missing here.

This week, students are standing with Gaza across countless U.S. colleges.

Derek Thompson speaks with political science professor Omar Wasow | @[email protected] about the history of anti-war protests and what we can learn from the 1960s.

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I wrote about a truly impossible question: What makes us happiest—marriage, social well-being, or financial security?

And came away with a new theory: that the correlation between these 3 things—the “happiness trinity”—helps explain why marriage is falling most, and loneliness…

I talked with Derek Thompson about my research on 1960s civil rights protests, what kinds of strategies can contribute to movement success or backlash, and how that evidence might apply to the current wave of campus activism. theringer.com/platform/amp/2…

“Marital quality is, far and away, the top predictor I have run across of life satisfaction in America,” I wrote in *Get Married*.

Derek Thompson isn’t totally convinced.

He offers his own fascinating take on marriage, money & happiness The Atlantic:
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Whatever you make of him as a philosopher, if Nietzsche were alive today, he would absolutely crush at Twitter.

This is basically a tendentious 200 character summary of the fifth most interesting idea in On the Genealogy of Morality and it has 17 million views.

before the pandemic, new england colleges had more than 2x more applicants than southwestern colleges.

at current trajectories, southwestern college applicants will surpass new england in two years.

Overall, Americans drive 30 percent less than government forecasts anticipated in 2002.

It seems like a combination of
- slowing population growth
- miles driven per capita suddenly flatlined in the 2000s after decades of steady increase

Trump’s team keeps floating plans to literally, directly increase consumer prices and Americans’ cost of living. And voters still trust him over Biden to bring down inflation by landslide margins vox.com/2024-elections…

The Atlantic is publishing several of my essays (with a new introduction) in a book this fall!

On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy will hit the shelves just in time for you to argue with your various relatives over the holidays.

New Michael Cembalest JPM note has a very interesting section on the politics of Elon Musk vs. the politics of Tesla buyers

In 3 parts:

1. Musk said in March: “There is either a red wave this November or America is doomed.' Ok, but:

2. From 2012 to 2022, ~50% of all EVs went…

What's the best paper or essay out there explaining why the number of college administrators—at expensive schools, certainly; at all schools, possible—is growing infinity-times faster than the number of tenured faculty?

Enjoyed this conversation with Derek Thompson - listen on the link below!

New pod: The future of India is the future of the world. It is the largest country by population today—and is projected to remain so for the next 100+ years.

But what is India becoming under Prime Minister Modi? Ravi Agrawal explains.

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