Small Potatoes

Assistant to the Regional Manager

The problem with utopia

Feb 9 • Paul Bloom

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Moltbook, mansplaining, and how we ended up in the Epstein files

Podcast with Robert Wright

Feb 4 • Paul Bloom

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January 2026

Is there a God-shaped hole?

New findings about the appetite for transcendence

Jan 20 • Paul Bloom

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Rosebud

Podcast with Robert Wright

Jan 13 • Paul Bloom

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19 pieces of teaching advice

Because it's a new semester

Jan 7 • Paul Bloom

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Why are so many professors conservative?

Two theories

Jan 5 • Paul Bloom

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December 2025

2025: A Reckoning

Podcast with Robert Wright (and this one has no paywall)

Dec 31, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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Is it irresponsible for academics to refuse to use AI?

Maybe not yet—but we’re getting there

Dec 18, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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Musk, Trump, Fuentes

Podcast with Robert Wright

Dec 17, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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Viewpoint diversity and its limits

Affirmative action for iconoclasts?

Dec 8, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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Your followers might hate you

[This is a reposting of something I wrote just when I started Small Potatoes. I’ve substantially edited and revised it, but kept some of the old-timey…

Dec 1, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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November 2025

Wokeness and effective altruism

Birds of a feather

Nov 24, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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