Sarang Shah
now: lawyer + politics phd candidate @ UC Berkeley
soon: Columbia Law School fellow at Public Economic Law Project
Corp law + governance, political economy, democracy + money in politics, housing
past: physicist, tech writer, journalist
taoist in SF
- This is the deal right. There are certain moves we need to make that, while not things we'd like to enable in a more democratic society, are necessary for building that more democratic society. It's a war footing for democracy.
- Natural experiment for the extent of personalism/cult of personality...apparently
- Brexit-ass logic
- Really curious about what happened with the SF Standard, which seemed so promising and at one point hired so many good people
- It's been pushing the tech right as "cool" for months now and it's really, dare I say, cringe
- "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" is indeed a viable, even necessary, disposition in these times. We must cultivate reasonable expectations while anticipating the worst.
- Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com
- w ha t
- Good news for all who %>%!
- dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
- A good reason as any for empirical social scientists to redouble their efforts to conceptualize and measure power, and integrate it into their explanations
- Who all will be at ALPE in Richmond VA this weekend? I'll be presenting some work on corporate law and governance and how to conceptualize corporate power on a panel at 11:30 Friday. Come on by!
- How in the world is anyone from the West Coast (BEST COAST) supposed to pack for a trip to the East Coast (LEAST COAST)?
