My mom emailed me a clip of Malcolm Gladwell telling Katie Couric that Berlin has 2x as many cops as LA, so LA should hire more cops. There are 11x more people incarcerated in LA county than in Germany. Clearly the LA police and the Berlin police are doing something very different to...

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it finally happened: my child zoombombed me while I was giving a talk. kind of sad I didn’t capture him waving to a classroom of Chicago law students but I was too flustered to screenshot it

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i’ll be on wttw’s week in review tonight at 5:30 pm central to talk about this and some other big stories from the week. 📺 watch live: www.wttw.com/wttw-live-st...

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new preprint: The Public Interest in Private Science. It explores how government grants & contracts became central ways to fund scientific research; argues that these agreements fail to effectively protect either scientific independence or the public interest; & sketches a few possible reforms

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Thanks to Korey Tillman for a generous review of Indefensible Spaces: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

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