I teach public policy at Dartmouth. I am the author of Naked Money, Naked Statistics, and other books.
Hanover, New Hampshire
Joined January 2009
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Over the last few months, we’ve been taking Adam Smith & @UofGlasgow to the world for #AdamSmith300. In June, we’re bringing the world to Glasgow with lectures, workshops, musical events, archive displays, theatre productions, student competitions and more. A🧵👇 (1)
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If you're tired of cheap talk about fixing politics, here are some great ideas for reforms that can dampen the partisanship ted.com/talks/katherine_m_ge…
How to fix partisanship? Address the "primary problem": youtube.com/watch?v=6W4G82iw…
Charles Wheelan retweeted
Almost every voter surveyed said they found ranked-choice voting simple to use, with 80 percent indicating it was "very simple."
Something tells me that New Yorkers would have let us know if they didn't like something... good sign for RCV.
thefulcrum.us/voting/ranked-…
My fictional take on the state of American political partisanship narrativemagazine.com/issues…
Why Americans don't have the third party that we say we want: youtube.com/watch?v=6aPJj-em…
Charles Wheelan retweeted
"The big idea: If more lawmakers in the House and Senate are, like Murkowski, rewarded rather than punished for working together, the institution as a whole will be far more responsive to voters."
@RussellBerman on reform in Alaska & its future:
theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
For those who feel we could use a little "West Wing" right now:
cnn.com/2020/10/15/opinions/…
Dartmouth has done a nice promo of my novel The Rationing. No, I did not predict the pandemic--but I did write about that possibility in 2019 because lots of smart people were warning about it. news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020…
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. @uniteamerica Board Member @LisaDTRice pushes for smart electoral reforms and more diversity in the political reform movement. realclearpolitics.com/articl…
If you're looking for a diversion from real life, I've just had my first short story published. It's dark (but less dark than real life at the moment): narrativemagazine.com/issues…
Perhaps coronavirus will wake us up to all the other "termites in the basement" problems we are not addressing. smerconish.com/news/2020/3/1…
Great new video from Represent.us describing some basic state-level reforms that can begin to roll back the partisanship. And Michael Douglas does a great job explaining it all! represent.us/?akid=43909.370…
It's dispiriting to see Warren peddling the same fiction as Trump with regard to where most jobs are lost. The data show that technology is a bigger culprit than trade--but that makes for complex solutions, not "better trade deals." qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mist…
