DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

Econ 196 :: The 1870s as the True Hinge of History? :: Pre-Class Assignment—do before 2026-03-08 23:59 PST:
What I am teaching in my seminar these days: was 1875 truly the singular hinge of human history, or at least of human economic history?…
 • Brad DeLong
MEMO TO SELF: What It Looks Like I Will Actually Have Managed to Cover in My Half of Econ 210a This Semester...
Less than one third of the topics I wanted to, and all at much less depth than they deserve. But ars longa, vita brevis…
 • Brad DeLong
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Unleash Chiang Kai-Shek
From 2005-10-05: Jeb Bush’s “mystical warrior Chang” gag stems from a right‑wing Cold War slogan about “unleashing Chiang Kai‑shek,” which Bush family…
 • Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: There Is No U.S. Plan on Iran
Is this the Epstein War, or the Netanyahu War? Dan Drezner thinks it is the Netanyahu War. Dan’s heading: "Maybe, just maybe, the Trump Administration…
 • Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: MICHAEL SELLERS: How the CIA & Israel Pulled Off the Successful Opening Leadership Strike on Iran
This is the best short thing I have read not about the legality, morality, or strategic wisdom of the Trump-Netanyahu war on the Islamic Republic of…
 • Brad DeLong
How the CIA and Israel Pulled Off the Successful Opening Leadership Strike on Iran
Questions continue to swirl around the wisdom and legality of Trump’s war on Iran, but just for this post, let’s strip all that away for a moment and…
Published on DEEPER LOOK with Michael Sellers • 
Killing Khamenei: Regime-Change Roulette in a Powder-Keg World
But Trump insisted he already destroyed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear-weapons program! A sudden U.S.–Israeli decapitation campaign against Iran…
 • Brad DeLong

February 2026

Understanding the State of the Corrupt Supreme Court Today
Legal Realism in CrazyTown facing the chaos-monkey president: Reading the Roberts Court as a Trump‑era power machine as Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch…
 • Brad DeLong
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Anchoring Your Thoughts Against the Blizzard of Trumpist Lies Is Very Important for You!
STILL VERY IMPORTANT: Proper mental hygiene is essential if you are to be a useful part of humanity-as-an-anthology-intelligence over the next four…
 • Brad DeLong
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
Published on Erin In The Morning • 
My Cousin Phil Lord, His Co-Director Chris Miller, & the Entire "Project Hail Mary" Movie Team REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY Want You to Go…
Twelve different video formats, $1.5 million a minute in world-class expert filmmaking craftsmanship, & I got to see where some of that $1.5 million a…
 • Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: JOSH BARRO: Good Things Are Good
Josh Barro’s subhead: "A viral memo, proposing a 2028 market crash because of too much AI-driven productivity growth, makes little sense". This is the…
 • Brad DeLong
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