Jonathan London

How to Study Contemporary Vietnam? The 38 chapters of the 600+ page Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam provides clues. The volume's introductory chapter and contents are available for download at the link below. taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…

🇺🇸⚔️ Trump is set to propose a 2027 budget focused on a major defense spending increase—up to $1.5 trillion—while cutting domestic programs to support it, - Bloomberg

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @dcpoll His too

@atrupar @dcpoll Calling this “his war” is so, so important.

Reporting like this makes clear that Trump’s thinking about his war is completely incoherent and governed by whatever impulse he’s feeling at a given moment wsj.com/world/middle-e…

CBS News: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seized control of universities rewrote the Constitution and neutered the courts. Is that what you're advocating for in the US? JD Vance: I think Orbán made smart decisions that we could learn from in the US. (June 2024)

@ben_golub @tylercowen @ATabarrok Pleased overall, but wondering how it can help me further develop the paper…

Thanks, Shruti (and thanks @tylercowen / @ATabarrok for resharing this on MR!) Something I find especially rewarding about working on Refine is that it's appreciated especially by researchers who care about chasing down the details, which to me is much of the heart of research

@ben_golub @tylercowen @ATabarrok I used it today… 32 useful suggestions, e.g., repetition, logic …. But I wonder how, beyond these, it can help me developm paper further..

@KhoaVuUmn I thought you were talking about posture

I've started using LaTeX. It's great but I can see how someone can spend 20 hours a day on this thing and feel like they accomplished something when they've done nothing.

@hsu_steve Thanks for sharing. Sorry for your loss. I grew up in Cambridge MA

One of my closest friends passed recently of a heart attack, leaving behind his wife and children. He was an accomplished physicist, head of the physics division at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. These are my remarks for his memorial. William J Evans My condolences to the Evans family and to everyone who knew Will. Please let us remember his Christian faith. He is with God now. Will was a man of integrity and hard work and fine character. A great and true friend, someone you could always depend on. We are all richer for having known him. His loss will be felt for the rest of our days. We met at freshman camp at Caltech in 1983. We were boys then, not yet men. Callow, youthful, with so much yet to learn about life and the world around us. Will was serious but friendly, easy to get to know. We confided in each other about everything. It was the 1980s and we shared a love for Prince, Madonna, Bo Jackson, The English Beat. Our intellectual heroes were Caltech legends like Richard Feynman, Kip Thorne, Carver Mead, John Hopfield. We explored the mysteries of quantum physics and mathematics. Endless problem sets, working late into the morning, scribbling on the floor with books and papers all around us. But we were also explorers of the night world of Los Angeles. Clubs, UCLA frat parties, blonde girls with heavy eyeliner smoking clove cigarettes. To Live and Die in LA, a movie we all loved, provided the soundtrack as we hurtled through the darkness on the endless freeways. We were suckers for every coming of age movie and we both loved Parker Posey. Will and I were roommates during the 85-86 academic year, and again we were neighbors on the Charles River in Cambridge in the 1990s. His office faced the back entrance of Lyman-Jefferson, the Harvard physics building. I would always look in the window to see if Will was at his desk when I entered the building. It was a joy to stop in and shoot the shit with my best friend at Harvard. Cambridge MA: Sunday afternoon in the early spring, a house with a gigantic window facing trees and a green lawn. Mostly girls at the party - anthropology and literature PhDs, alumna of Smith College, drinking good wine from fluted glasses. After some time we looked at each other - Time to go. Suddenly the sky was full of fat snowflakes, falling in sheets from a blue white sky as we ran to his car. Immortal times, timeless days and nights of youth. My children can’t imagine my young life - probably true for the Evans kids as well. I want you to know that Will lived a full life, full of friendship and adventure, the joy of scientific discovery, and later the joy of family life. The world captured in those grainy photos really existed, even if it is long vanished now. We are all richer for having known him. His loss will be felt for the rest of our days.

RIP Jürgen Habermas faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

@KhoaVuUmn Causal channel

When you finally found an important gap in the literature:

@RadioFreeTom I can get the Vietnamese for you @RadioFreeTom

Finally got the Armenian and Turkish editions, so now I almost have a full set of all of the foreign translations of The Death of Expertise - except for Vietnamese.

@SirRogerGale @horton_official It's worse though Trump /Netanyahu could put the world into a crushing recession, a ongoing wide ranging long lasting war and terrorism. Let alone the incredibly damaging environmental damage of the war. All because of two 80 year old men are trying to stay out of prison.

@Sean_in_Kyiv @Mylovanov @Mylovanov why do you post this?

@Mylovanov No idea why you are spreading this vatnik’s propaganda

Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, U.S. murdered 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. What we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, we use economic leverage to basically starve people, to make them suffer. 1/

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire-f…

Song of the century…

I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran. I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly. When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight. Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office. Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action. We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

Man, this seems really fishy.

Watching this story rapidly move down the Bezos Knee Pad Post… ho hum, nothing to see here…

@Shivram_Krishna @dieworkwear Good advice.

@dieworkwear Life without intention collapses into repetition. Afternoon fatigue, nightly wakefulness, shifting deadlines, and cyclical trends are entropy disguised as routine. Authority emerges only when you legislate meaning beyond the loop.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

@dddonnnaaa @CamRMacKenzie Maybe it will be occasion for a national reckoning, an awakening…a no kings day II … July seems far away… and right around the corner… USA b1776 rip 2026

@CamRMacKenzie I hate that he is our WH for the 250th celebration. I don’t feel like celebrating America. I am completely embarrassed to be a part of this country. It would be a miracle if something happens before July 4th. I mean he is 80 & unhealthy. Then it would be something to celebrate.

I cannot believe that it’s America’s 250th and we’re again fighting against taxation without representation from a (wannabe) King. We’ve really come full circle, haven’t we?