Brett Mullins

The selections below from 1826 capture the advance of liberal ideas in Britain, as reformers systematically challenged entrenched aristocratic monopolies over trade and education.

At the close of the spring semester, I spent a bit of time advising students on the near-term: which classes to choose for the fall, how to prepare for graduate school, ideas for things to do over the summer, etc.

I have a new paper out with my colleagues from UMass Amherst and Penn State: Fast Private Adaptive Query Answering for Large Data Domains.

I recently gave a talk at the Privacy and Public Policy Conference on measuring income mobility under differential privacy.

Below are some interesting articles I’ve read in 2025.

Seven years removed from the armistice, 1925 finds the Western intellectual world grappling with reconstruction, not merely of borders and economies but of the conceptual foundations underlying science and the social order.

Below are some interesting books I’ve read in 2025.

The Fortnightly Review was a prominent British periodical in the 1870s, edited by John Morley, publishing articles on a wide range of topics including literature, philosophy, politics, and economics.

A persistent theme throughout the 1820s is the tension between Enlightenment ideals and conservative reaction.

Below is a collection of interesting articles I’ve read in 2024.