The Measles Crisis Is Regional—Let's Keep It That Way
Measles is a national issue. It's not a national phenomenon.
Politics
The New England Option in Action
In January, shortly after the inauguration, I floated the idea of The New England Option, a thought experiment about a regional, rather than national, approach to politics. Subsequently, I worked with an AI
Writing the History of the Future with Google Gemini
With the end of the semester, I have been experimenting with Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (preview) to see how it works with different things on my to-do list. I've used
The New England Option
As an academic researcher with at least three current and several pending federal grants, this week has left me with a particularly acute case of Trumpian whiplash of the kind I had somehow
Briefly Noted for May 27, 2021
I read Zach Carter's magisterial biography of John Maynard Keynes, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes. Not only is it a super-readable education in