Oath is the campaign-donation allocation optimizer you’ve been looking for
OK, I don’t know what you’ve been looking for. And maybe you’re looking for Republican candidates to donate to, in which case Oath is not for you, that’s fine, we can still be friends. But if you have...
View ArticleMemorial Day
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. William James, in 1897, dedicating the monument to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th regiment, a monument which still stands in Boston Common today: “And when South...
View ArticleLarry Agran is the Paul Soglin of Irvine, CA
I remember Larry Agran because he was the dad of a college classmate of mine and he ran an outsider campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in 1992. I happened to look him up and learned...
View ArticleLet us now praise United Airlines
I did manage to get home last night from Providence, despite widespread cancellations and delays caused by the government shutdown de-staffing air traffic control. United was speedy, flexible, and...
View ArticleDoing less with less
I wrote an opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel expressing my view that attacks on science funding and international students are bad. This will probably not be very controversial to...
View ArticleA birthday message from Azat Miftakhov
(via Michael Harris) Lena Gorban, the wife of the mathematician Azat Miftakhov’s, has requested that mathematicians post this message on Azat’s birthday, which is March 21. This is his sixth birthday...
View ArticleAn open letter on funding cuts at Columbia
Back to math and baseball posting later this week, but first, some politics. I don’t always talk about this on the blog, but I’m Jewish and I’m a Zionist. I work closely with Israeli mathematicians, I...
View ArticleKamala Harris Straw Poll, Day 1
I was in a coffeeshop in Berkeley, CA when Joe Biden announced he wouldn’t be running for re-election. I kind of wanted to talk to somebody about it but it wasn’t clear anybody else knew it had...
View ArticleDredging as good government
A few summers ago we had really bad floods in Madison. There were a lot of reasons. The proximate reason was it rained a lot. But also: we keep the levels of the lakes artificially high with dams, in...
View ArticleAm I supposed to say something about the invasion of the United States Capitol?
Or the reimpeachment of the President, a week before the end of his term? I feel like I should, just because it’s history, and I might wonder how it seemed in real time. It is hard to understand what...
View ArticlePandemic blog 43: bluster
Blustery day in Madison; windy and wet, light snow falling, but not sticking. An unwelcome reminder that the constrictedness of our current way of life is going to be harder to handle when the...
View ArticlePandemic blog 42: Thanksgiving
A lot of political tumult about Thanksgiving and whether turkey dinners are likely to give the pandemic another boost in the last few months before vaccines become available. Maybe! But I think these...
View ArticlePandemic blog 39: pandemic election
Oh yeah, we had an election. Joe Biden won. I could have written about it but actually a lot of other people were also writing about it. I did do an interview for the Atlantic the day before Election...
View ArticlePandemic blog 36: undecided
Oh yeah, on top of everything else, there’s an election. Ordinarily, this time of year, I’d be spending some of a nice weekend day knocking on doors around Madison and making sure everyone’s...
View ArticlePandemic blog 35: Updates
What’s going on with some of the topics previously covered? Slimming: The initial weight loss reported slowed down, but hasn’t stopped, even though I started eating take-out from restaurants in July...
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Pandemic blog 21: we all look like freedom fighters
Wisconsin is slowly loosening its emergency health restrictions. Stores are allowed to open as long as they’re not in enclosed malls and no more than five customers are inside at once. People are...
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Pandemic blog 15: “lock them down”
Trader Joe’s on Friday: the first time I had to wait in line to get in the store. To maintain an appropriately low density, they don’t let a new shopper in until someone comes out. This week, about...
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Pandemic blog 13: Violent Frisbee
Already discussed: the fracas over the April 7 spring election, which should have been postponed, or held by mail if it was held at all. To my great surprise, Jill Karofsky, the liberal running to...
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Maps of candidates from coconsideration
G. Elliot Morris posted this embedding of the current Democratic presidential candidates in R^2 on Twitter: Here is a fun diagram. I took 2k responses to our polling on the Dem primary with YouGov and...
View ArticlePolitical coordinates test
A popular political quiz on the internet purports to place you on a Cartesian plane with “left-right” on one axis and “libertarian-communitarian” on the other, by presenting you with 36 assertions...
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