Archive - Small Potatoes

19 pieces of teaching advice

Because it's a new semester

Jan 7 • Paul Bloom

Why are so many professors conservative?

Jan 5 • Paul Bloom

December 2025

2025: A Reckoning

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

Dec 31, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Is it irresponsible for academics to refuse to use AI?

Maybe not yet—but we’re getting there

Dec 18, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Musk, Trump, Fuentes

Podcast with Robert Wright

Dec 17, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Viewpoint diversity and its limits

Affirmative action for iconoclasts?

Dec 8, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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

November 2025

Wokeness and effective altruism

Birds of a feather

Nov 24, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Larry Summers; Olivia Nuzzi; Pluribus

Podcast with Robert Wright

Nov 21, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Viewpoint diversity and its limits

Affirmative action for iconoclasts?

Nov 17, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Would you still love me if I was a worm?

An investigation

Nov 10, 2025 • Paul Bloom

Gatekeepers, antisemitism, and the greatest World Series ever

Podcast with Robert Wright

Nov 5, 2025 • Paul Bloom

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