Sarang Shah
@sarangshah.com
lawyer + politics phd candidate @ UC Berkeley, soon Columbia Law School
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past: physicist, tech writer, & journalist
taoist living in San Francisco
Social media fasting. Email me:
[email protected]
Here's what I am up to:
sarangshah.com
past: physicist, tech writer, & journalist
taoist living in San Francisco
I'd like to see more work from political scientists (including myself!) on the behavior of donors and how this behavior structures and conditions the rest of politics. Donor behavior isn't entirely upstream from everything else, but as the rich get richer w/ fewer restraints on money in politics...
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'd like to see more work from political scientists (including myself!) on the behavior of donors and how this behavior structures and conditions the rest of politics. Donor behavior isn't entirely upstream from everything else, but as the rich get richer w/ fewer restraints on money in politics...
What this means is that messaging appeals are not reflections of what leaders understand voters wanting. Every empirical study that analyzes politician messaging and ascribes it to a perception of what voters want is increasingly likely to be biased.
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What this means is that messaging appeals are not reflections of what leaders understand voters wanting. Every empirical study that analyzes politician messaging and ascribes it to a perception of what voters want is increasingly likely to be biased.
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Yeah that's how I avoid the charge of supporting deregulation when supporting YIMBYism: bsky.app/profile/egal...
Also, instead of removing the majority of zoning regulations, I'd simply reverse the polarity of them: All parking minimums are now parking maximums. All minimum lot sizes are now maximum lot sizes. All maximum height limits are now minimum height limits. All setbacks are now setforwards. And so on.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Yeah that's how I avoid the charge of supporting deregulation when supporting YIMBYism: bsky.app/profile/egal...
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A Cool Young Writer Is Isekai’d Into the Future By Time’s Inescapable March
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A Cool Young Writer Is Isekai’d Into the Future By Time’s Inescapable March
One of the best, and the bit about Henry Carr and his widow in the preface is rather extraordinary.
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
One of the best, and the bit about Henry Carr and his widow in the preface is rather extraordinary.
Reposted by Sarang Shah
Trump has entered the US into a new international order—neoroyalism.
"The purpose of neo-royalist orders is to develop rules that allow a small clique to maintain dominance in both material and symbolic goods"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
bsky.app/profile/aben...
"The purpose of neo-royalist orders is to develop rules that allow a small clique to maintain dominance in both material and symbolic goods"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
bsky.app/profile/aben...
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Trump has entered the US into a new international order—neoroyalism.
"The purpose of neo-royalist orders is to develop rules that allow a small clique to maintain dominance in both material and symbolic goods"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
bsky.app/profile/aben...
"The purpose of neo-royalist orders is to develop rules that allow a small clique to maintain dominance in both material and symbolic goods"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
bsky.app/profile/aben...