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Daniel W. Drezner
Personal blog · drezner.foreignpolicy.compoliticseconomics
Daniel W. Drezner writes Foreign Policy, a personal blog at drezner.foreignpolicy.com about politics and economics. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Drezner's posts for a 2006 argument that paper sketchbooks suit exploring ideas better than computers, and for a 2012 optimistic counterpoint to the 'Average Is Over' discussion.
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Daniel W. Drezner is an academic dean and a distinguished professor of international politics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.
What Hacker News says?
A more optimistic counterpoint: http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/22/prediction...
Comment linking /posts/2012/01/22/predictions_about_the_death_of_american_hegemony_may_have_been_greatly_exaggerated
on “Average Is Over”Submitted How to read research papers as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThey are also better than using a computer for exploring ideas, because paper is more flexible. http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2006/05/26/pen_and_pa... The comments including many by engineers, and a couple of musicians, are especially interesting.
Comment linking /posts/2006/05/26/pen_and_paper_rule
on “Sketchbooks aren't about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker”Submitted American Hypocrisy, R.I.P.? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted A message to future post-apocalyptic historians on the debt ceiling as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pen and paper rule (2006) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daniel Drezner: The dollar ain't going anywhere as a reserve currency as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How international relations theory would cope with a zombie uprising as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The utopianism of Julian Assange as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daniel W Drezner: The power of academic culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drezner: China's soft power hits the brick wall of economics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The global governance of apocalypses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daniel Drezner: Assessing China's (limited) financial power as a story · 1 points
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