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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 4d

Red Sox are in the Bronx on an October night—good to know with all the craziness in the world that some things continue as they should

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 6d

When I first glanced at this, I thought it involved a young Paul McCartney

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 8d

Inflation and immigration

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 10d

The way to stay sane is to remember that Joe Biden lost because of inflation, which drove down real incomes. Clinton lost because it's hard to win 3 consecutive terms, the economy was good/not great, and her support was misaligned with the Electoral College.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11d

A few years ago, my team looked at household sizes around the world.

The household size experienced by the average person ranged from 2.7 people (in Germany) to 13.8 people (in Gambia).
www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...

Map shows variation in the average household size experienced by people in 130 countries around the world.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 16d

"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Line chart showing that India has long been the most common birthplace for workers whose H-1B visa applications in the United States are approved each year. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 18d

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 19d

Trump's abuses lend additional weight to the great economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 argument for abolishing the FCC. We don't need a govt agency that licenses broadcasters, and such an agency is inherently dangerous to liberty: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Abolish the FCC

FCC The Trump Administration Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent efforts to intimidate broadcasters into taking anti-Trump comedians off the air…

reason.com

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 19d

Listening to Democratic Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro interviewed on a podcast and thinking he sounded more conservative than I would have guessed.

Then I realized it was Ben Shapiro being interviewed.

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 21d

I read the first half and have some hopefully constructive suggestions. Bravo for the breadth of your research!

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 21d

I feel this

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 21d

A university distinguished professor of law at the University of Kansas says President Donald Trump's use of tariffs is destroying international trade law and will result in harm to the U.S. economy and global standing.

via @kansasreflector.com

University of Kansas professor says Trump’s tariffs are xenophobic, unlawful and harmful to U.S.

LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas law professor says President Donald Trump’s tariffs against more than 100 countries violate international trade law and harm the United States by undercutting its…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · Mar 5

I've repeated this quote before, but Stanley Rosen is reputed to have once said in a grad seminar at BU: "You liberal grad students think postmodernism is cute, but just wait until the right gets a hold of it."

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 26d

Interesting corporate #arbitration post,

including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Sep 7

#USOpen now is a good match, enjoy

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is one of the rare times I’ll disagree. They definitely imagined Trump. Half the Federalist Papers are about Trump.

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Aug 22

Woke up early today and took my coffee out to the deck for something I have not felt in months – – a morning chill

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · Aug 9

This is why physical media is still so important.

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Aug 8

The younger nation is not as wise as the mother country but has the flexibility and energy to learn and adapt and persist

Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab) @martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social · Nov 6

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” ― Winston Churchill

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Jul 31

Good morning #SEALS2025!

Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Jul 30

I agree with the first half of this sentence and would like to learn more about the second half

The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · Jul 30

Postliberalism has this strange argument that liberalism made us rich, increased the population tenfold, produced technologies that make our lives transformationally better, and yet now, after all these spectacular successes, it’s petering out in anomie and alienation and suffocating bureaucracy.

Are Advanced Capitalist Liberal Democracies Victims of Their Own Success? A Conversation with Brink Lindsey

Mass affluence is leading to a crisis of meaning that postliberals are exploiting to knock down liberalism

www.theunpopulist.net

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · Jul 30

As a daily subway rider, it’s horrifying to see just how indifferent so many people are to forcing their music and videos and calls on other people.

It’s such an obvious thing that the breakdown of that norm really is reflective of the selfish coarsening of our me-focused society.

James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · Jul 30

There's no excuse for talking on speakerphone, or watching video with full audio on public transit.

When I see it, I am frequently tempted to do dickish passive-aggressive things like pull out my phone and play "Asshole" by Dennis Leary at full volume.

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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Jul 30

Roads today full of moving trucks – end of July still common time for leases to end and home sales to close

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some ppl think Detroit is in the Midwest

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Jul 29

This view that US has awful elites was I think not widely held on 9/11 but then rapidly gained adherents with the failures of the war in Iraq and then the financial crisis and Great Recession.

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Jul 28

Yes, it is typical, but can be a fun distraction for an hour or so that both serves the field and prompts thoughts for one’s own writing