Slow Boring is a blog and newsletter by Matthew Yglesias on American politics and public policy. The name comes from Max Weber’s essay on “Politics as a Vocation” where he writes that
Hello from out here on the Thames Delta. I am on low power this week - I am, in fact, doing a couple of days of Slow Carb to try and kickstart the loss of the annoyingly clinging winter weight I picked up, and I would murder you for a...
No matter how many hours we spend in an office, in the car, caring for patients or children or client accounts, at the end of the day we all come home. I’ll be writing here about my stay-at-home findings, but you don’t have to be a
Cleaning the Glass is built for hardcore basketball junkies. After 8 years working for NBA teams I wanted a venue to research and discuss interesting basketball topics and to bring what I learned working inside the league to its remarkably…
Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here.
That’s where this newsletter comes in.
I’m a professor of American history.
The name “Culture Study” is a modification of “Cultural Studies,” a term used to describe an academic field — and general posture — towards the culture that surrounds us. The scholars of this early field believed that if people