Maia Mindel

Dec 10, 2024 | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz |Maia Mindel |Celeste Davis

A lot of people, especially women and leftists, are very unsympathetic about the epidemic of male loneliness. I understand why. But it’s never sat quite right with me. Today I want to share how thinking through the gender pay gap helped me empathize with men and boys. Sex and the State is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. To help you understand where I’m coming from, I’m going to tell you a story.

Oct 8, 2024 | experimental-history.com | Adam Mastroianni |Paul Bloom |Maia Mindel |Jason Collins

There’s a thought that’s haunted me for years: we’re doing all this research in psychology, but are we learning anything? We run these studies and publish these papers and…then what? The stack of papers just gets taller? This worries me because I want to contribute to the grand project of understanding the mind, but I’m not sure how to do that. What’s the point of tossing another paper on the pile when it’s not clear that the last 100 papers added anything?

Jun 28, 2024 | someunpleasant.substack.com | Maia Mindel

Old Man Warner snorted. “Pack of crazy fools,” he said. “Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about ‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ First thing you know, we’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There’s always been a lottery,” he added petulantly.

Feb 13, 2024 | someunpleasant.substack.com | Maia Mindel

I’ve decided to try something new: once a week, to write a shorter, narrower post focusing on one specific paper. Last week, I wrote about discrimination against gay couples in the housing market. This is the tab with all the previous (and current) posts. Onto the actual post: are families that used to be wealthy in the 15th century more likely to be wealthy today? “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before.

Dec 16, 2023 | someunpleasant.substack.com | Maia Mindel

There's a lot to this, and I think many observers pick one or two data points and shout that the sky is falling while missing most context. I like that you compare Hungary and Poland to France and Sweden. Also - Russia is probably the most conservative European country and it has been shrinking for decades. Japan has been shrinking for 13 years, and if you look at the ratio of working age to retirees, that ratio has been going on even longer. It is still a wealthy, powerful country.