Of Cabbages and Kings

Reduction in Force

Or How I Got Fired by a Car Salesman*

Nov 12 • 

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October 2025

The Linguistic Crimes of Large Organizations

Must it be this way?

Oct 27 • 

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NYC Mayors Explained

They're all cartoons

Oct 7 • 

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September 2025

Indonesia

A mostly harmless (but mostly useless) visitor’s guide

Sep 18 • 

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August 2025

Burn Day

That curious tradition

Aug 28 • 

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A Whale of a Tale to Tell You, Lads

What is the Met Opera Doing?

Aug 1 • 

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April 2025

Amtrak, a Beginner's Guide

Wherein I get a few things off my chest

Apr 4 • 

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February 2025

Sunk Costs... and Bread

Wherein I really overuse the word “bread”

Feb 11 • 

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October 2024

Why Do an Economics PhD?

If you don’t care for anecdotes, skip the prologue.

Oct 2, 2024 • 

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September 2024

The Icing on the Steak

Or, How I Went to See an Eclipse and Wouldn’t Stop Talking About the Hotel

Sep 12, 2024 • 

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Institutional Review Board (IRB) Application

Experiment Name: “Evidence of Trade in a Robinson Crusoe Economy”

Sep 6, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Carmen at the Rodeo

Beginning my Substack with a review of an opera should be an appropriate way of indicating the level of pretentiousness you should expect from me…

Aug 30, 2024 • 

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