I talked to La Croix about the Reichsbürger movement

And apparently I said this: « Les théories du complot fascinent beaucoup plus de monde que l’on ne croit et participent à un processus classique de radicalisation », constate Kai Arzheimer, professeur de sciences politiques de l’université de Mayence. I couldn’t agree more with myself. And in my humble opinion, it’s quite amazing that a…

ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and Stata’s margins command

Seems that my students and I are not the only ones who are occasionally baffled by Stata’s margins command, which does all sorts of amazing things. Margins is incredibly powerful, and the accompanying marginsplot command almost always does just the right thing. These commands come with excellent documentation, but at a mere 58 pages (not…

The Secret Life of Canada: Jewish Montreal – a culinary history

https://podcastaddict.com/the-secret-life-of-canada/episode/156123463 (podcastaddict.com)

TIL I learned that the first Jewish person in Canada was Esther Brandeau, who arrived in New France disguised as Jacques La Fargue, a male Catholic. She was found out and  deported back to Old France when she refused to convert. Also, in Quebec Matzah can only be sold around Passover and only under a…

3 reasons why the war against Ukraine matters less for the German far right than you would think

Or something along those lines: listen to me rambling on about Russia, German right-wing populism, and the AfD.

In my defence, it was supposed to be an interview, but then the person just to the left of the camera declined to ask any further questions and just smiled encouragingly until I ran out of steam. Click here for a slightly more coherent writeup and the reference for the full article.