Enik Rising

I recently re-watched the original 1983 "V" miniseries with my kids. If you don't recall it, the premise is that aliens come...

Loyal readers will notice that I haven't posted much on these pages in a while. I'm devoting my blogging energies these days to Misc...

What happens to the electorate when you tighten up rules for voting? Does everyone have a harder time voting, or are some groups of voters a...

Andrew Gelman is right: this graph is pretty bad. If you want to get a sense of what temperature trends look like over the past century or...

Dan Drezner makes some nice points in response to the Forbes article that lists academia as one of the least stressful occupations. Whil...

I saw "Lincoln" the other night. This is a very good and very rich film -- it contains a great deal of detail, both in the scri...

In my ongoing efforts to visit the sins of the father on my children, I recently watched "Superman II" with them. While "Su...