I tried seven kinds of fancy tea. Three were worse than regular mass-market tea that you get in a grocery store or cafe. Two were truly excellent.

Chipotle is two pounds of industrial waste in a one-pound bag. Freebirds is just so much better there's no comparison.

Yesterday Twitter -- I mean, X -- blew up over a history postdoc who said he was unemployable because he's a white man. This is, fundamentally a story about elite overproduction. www.noahpinion.blog/…

Academic history is a shrinking field, thanks mainly to falling interest in the history major, but also various other factors. That inevitably means the battles over who gets hired will be more bitter, and the suspicious of unfairness more intense. www.noahpinion.blog/…

I wrote about the David Austin Walsh affair, and the problem of elite overproduction in American academia: www.noahpinion.blog/…