The Cranky Analyst

Reading Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives , by Michael Specter. Fun ...

I have been happily working with a killer set of co-authors recently: Josh Angrist , Parag Pathak and Chris Walters of MIT, Tom Kane of Ha...

A letter to parents was in my kids’ backpacks this week. It’s about whether teachers at their school and in their classrooms meet the No C...

While the nation has been storming and heckling and angst-ing over health insurance reform, there has been a productive conversation and q...