Scott Gehlbach

It was a thrill to join other colleagues and students of Henry Brady yesterday for the panel "Remembrances, Rants, Roasts: Henry Brady’s Contributions to Political Science."

When Jim Croce sang about "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," he could not have imagined what the historically maligned South Side would look like with a proper investment in public goods.

You will have seen the announcement that, effective immediately, arXiv will impose a one-year ban on any authors found to have used LLM-generated content that they did not verify.

Wednesday was a special day.

A preview of a paper in progress, which I will present next week at Yale.

That is the subtitle of a new working paper by Sultan Mehmood, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy, and Hans-Joachim Voth.

Washington, DC was never the most democratic of capital cities.

Maksym Butkevych— journalist, human rights activist, and winner of the 2025 Václav Havel Prize given by PACE—was on campus yesterday for a talk at the Neubauer Collegium.

Just back from a glorious evening at the Logan Center on campus, where my wife and I saw the Julia Keefe Indigenous Jazz Ensemble.

The nightmare in Minnesota has me thinking about Russia in the 1990s, when aggressive young men wielded coercive power in the country's new markets.