Well, I knew I did the interview, on March 7, 2024. I just didn't know that they posted the episode six months later, in October 2024.
Now in The Conversation: ‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society
A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States.
Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)
When reasonable math grossly distorts social life.
Comment on After the Spike at UCLA event
Me responding to a talk by Michael Geruso about his book with Dean Spears, After the Spike.
Down the hatch, 2025
How did I end up in this situation? The year in output.
Year end book roundup
I recommend most of the 29 books I read this year. Give books as gifts!
Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards
In the most recent volume, two-thirds of papers based on quantitative analysis provided replication packages.
Me against pronatalism, now in The New Republic
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
Update: Political divide over science widening more (and now including moderates)
The divide has widened further , and now people who identify as moderates are showing a decline in confidence in science as well.
Stopping rules don’t affect the population’s sex ratio at birth
What if everyone has babies until they get a boy? A lot changes, but the overal sex ratio doesn't.
Family Inequality 
