Sarang Shah
@sarangshah.com
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
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
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Sarang Shah
@sarangshah.com
· Jul 22
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Who Wants #Stakeholder #Capitalism? Public & Elite Perceptions of the Role of #Business #Leaders in #Politics
By @eitanhersh.bsky.social & @sarangshah.com
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Who Wants #Stakeholder #Capitalism? Public & Elite Perceptions of the Role of #Business #Leaders in #Politics
By @eitanhersh.bsky.social & @sarangshah.com
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Pleased to share our new paper now out in Perspectives on Politics! Happy to discuss and looking forward to hearing thoughts and suggestions for further research.
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Hundreds of protestors are on the march from the ICE office in downtown Atlanta to the Georgia State Capitol building. They are calling anti-Trump slogans after ICE officers killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday and shot two more in Portland on Thursday.
January 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Hundreds of protestors are on the march from the ICE office in downtown Atlanta to the Georgia State Capitol building. They are calling anti-Trump slogans after ICE officers killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday and shot two more in Portland on Thursday.
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I have written on this tactic for over a decade. I hold a research grant on vehicle ramming attacks, and I curate what I believe is the largest database of these incidents, over 500 cases worldwide since 1987. 2/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I have written on this tactic for over a decade. I hold a research grant on vehicle ramming attacks, and I curate what I believe is the largest database of these incidents, over 500 cases worldwide since 1987. 2/7
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
Look they tried this with Belgium when they got them to make King George IV's son-in-law the king after striking out with Greece. Why not try again
noticing the BBC's coverage is REALLY focused on asking Iranians how they feel about Reza Pahlavi lol
January 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Look they tried this with Belgium when they got them to make King George IV's son-in-law the king after striking out with Greece. Why not try again
too real
All this time I've been thinking about how weird it is for us IR people to see them relitigate the merits of 19th-century colonial empires, and suddenly I realize how weird it must be for all the political philosophy people to see them relitigate the merits of 17th-century absolute monarchy.
This is very straightforwardly the old vision of absolute monarchy subject only to the king's conscience and duty to God, exceeding even Hobbes' account of sovereign authority.
But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.
But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
too real
Class solidarity but for degenerate dilettantes who like a little treat
January 8, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Class solidarity but for degenerate dilettantes who like a little treat
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The power of left politics today: Mamdani's argument for universalism has gone from controversy to common sense in about 2 months.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
January 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
The power of left politics today: Mamdani's argument for universalism has gone from controversy to common sense in about 2 months.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
Whether governments ban app stores run by Apple and Google, two of the world's largest and most powerful corporations, is an interesting test of states' claims to absolute sovereignty.
It's not a question of politics or adherence to law. It's the structural power these companies have over states.
It's not a question of politics or adherence to law. It's the structural power these companies have over states.
frankly app stores should be banned by governments over hosting this
i do not think app stores should allow 12 year olds access to apps which allow them to create photorealistic video pornography out of glenn danzig lyrics
January 8, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Whether governments ban app stores run by Apple and Google, two of the world's largest and most powerful corporations, is an interesting test of states' claims to absolute sovereignty.
It's not a question of politics or adherence to law. It's the structural power these companies have over states.
It's not a question of politics or adherence to law. It's the structural power these companies have over states.
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This is very straightforwardly the old vision of absolute monarchy subject only to the king's conscience and duty to God, exceeding even Hobbes' account of sovereign authority.
But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.
But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
This is very straightforwardly the old vision of absolute monarchy subject only to the king's conscience and duty to God, exceeding even Hobbes' account of sovereign authority.
But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.
But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.
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I keep saying, he does not understand himself to be president! That's not the office he thinks he holds. He doesn't see his powers as deriving from the Constitution, and therefore does not see them as limited by the Constitution (or any other law)
Asked “if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I keep saying, he does not understand himself to be president! That's not the office he thinks he holds. He doesn't see his powers as deriving from the Constitution, and therefore does not see them as limited by the Constitution (or any other law)
Britain, please be a comparative case study of how a country's politics improve when this trash is shut down.
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Britain, please be a comparative case study of how a country's politics improve when this trash is shut down.
I've become really troubled by the youths asking politely whether they can take a vacant seat in my vicinity on the train or in a cafe. I thought we had a social norm where if a seat is empty, you sit there, as long as there's no joint property like a table between that seat and another.
January 8, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I've become really troubled by the youths asking politely whether they can take a vacant seat in my vicinity on the train or in a cafe. I thought we had a social norm where if a seat is empty, you sit there, as long as there's no joint property like a table between that seat and another.
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This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
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The U.S. is spending $37.5B on ICE this year—more than Canada’s entire military budget. That’s double the EPA, FDA, and OSHA combined.
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The U.S. is spending $37.5B on ICE this year—more than Canada’s entire military budget. That’s double the EPA, FDA, and OSHA combined.
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
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everyone knows that what trump is saying about renee good is a lie, including ICE and CBP. the messaging needs to be a lie in order to be effective. what they are communicating is this: opponents of the regime have no rights which you are bound to respect, and the conspiracy goes to the top.
January 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
everyone knows that what trump is saying about renee good is a lie, including ICE and CBP. the messaging needs to be a lie in order to be effective. what they are communicating is this: opponents of the regime have no rights which you are bound to respect, and the conspiracy goes to the top.
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I barely think about The Obelisk anymore. Couldn't care less about its strangely oily surface or the gentle hum of its presence
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I barely think about The Obelisk anymore. Couldn't care less about its strangely oily surface or the gentle hum of its presence
This is an interesting and useful way of looking at disinfo
It isn’t about intelligence, it’s about desire. The manufacturing of false evidence isn’t about convincing people who didn’t know the real facts; it’s a prop magic wand that the VP waves around on TV before he tells the willing audience that he’s going to pull a left-wing terror plot out of a hat.
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
This is an interesting and useful way of looking at disinfo
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“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
January 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
Really interested in seeing the potential bias this introduces to several published and ongoing studies
The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are.
Wow; this is pretty damning.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Wow; this is pretty damning.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
January 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Really interested in seeing the potential bias this introduces to several published and ongoing studies
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On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...
Why Wealth Inequality Matters: A Symposium - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions on wealth inequality – its origins and political philosophy, its national and global contexts, and its connections…
shapingwork.mit.edu
January 8, 2026 at 7:27 PM
On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...
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wrote about this exact point yesterday in the context of figuring out what/where/how musk's power lies. musk making himself twitter (and vice versa) is a strength for musk but a weakness for twitter maxread.substack.com/p/why-wont-s...
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
wrote about this exact point yesterday in the context of figuring out what/where/how musk's power lies. musk making himself twitter (and vice versa) is a strength for musk but a weakness for twitter maxread.substack.com/p/why-wont-s...
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And I know this Treasury stuff is boring, but it is key to an ongoing dispute in 2025, Congress appropriates the money and the President does not get to play monkey games with disbursement.
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
And I know this Treasury stuff is boring, but it is key to an ongoing dispute in 2025, Congress appropriates the money and the President does not get to play monkey games with disbursement.
This is one reason why internal corporate governance and stakeholder cross-pressures, such as that between employees and customers, can possess outsized impact on the rest of us. It matters how these big powerful infrastructural companies are governed.
removal from app store + google play probably fatally wounds the entire global right wing movement and significantly hinders musk’s own ability to get involved with elections both here and abroad
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is one reason why internal corporate governance and stakeholder cross-pressures, such as that between employees and customers, can possess outsized impact on the rest of us. It matters how these big powerful infrastructural companies are governed.
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yes, but that narrow bloc includes like 50 percent of the ultra-rich at least
I never really understand who Bari Weiss is for. She offers nothing to hardcore Trumpers but even people like Yglesias and View From Nowhere journalists at CBS recognize that she's doing right wing propaganda. She's appealing to such a narrow block of people.
January 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
yes, but that narrow bloc includes like 50 percent of the ultra-rich at least
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Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.