Why should economists & other social scientists care about how people feel? Carol Graham's lecture will review empirical evidence and research-based lessons that suggest possible policies for restoring hope in populations where it has been lost. Join our Opening Lecture of 2026 👇 shorturl.at/3DRQB

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Doing this to a teenage child is bad parenting for them and for the parent on so many levels, as the original op-ed itself demonstrates ('spin out? 'panic'? 'can breathe again'??) But when your son is nineteen--an adult by all legal definitions--doing this is not parenting at all. It is stalking.

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Woo, R&R article just came back with accept! That's two articles accepted this year (and indeed in the last two months - though they were both written at completely different times), so I am feeling very pleased, given only 20% of my 0.7 contract is given over to research.

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It was a privilege to serve on the judging panel this year for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social Warmest congrats to all six authors, whose books show us how brilliant History writing can intrigue, inspire and educate, make us laugh and move us to tears. If you haven't already, read these books!

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‘Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale are all in smallish cities with populations under 200,000, so that the gown dominates the town – unlike, say, UCL, the University of Chicago, UCLA, NYU or Columbia.’ Susan Pedersen on elite universities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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