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2026 42

  1. University of Florida President Disavows H-1B Hiring After My Reporting
  2. Inside the Old Glory Club’s Civil War
  3. I Exposed Oklahoma’s H-1B Hiring. Now the University Is Hiding Its Notices Behind a Login.
  4. 15 More Academic Scandals
  5. The $100 Million ETF Built on Research That Doesn’t Replicate
  6. Arday Affair Erupts Into U.S.-Belgium Diplomatic Dispute
  7. Cambridge Professor Found Dead After Rampant Plagiarism and Pattern of Deception
  8. 23 More Academic Scandals
  9. RIP EJMR (2008-2026)
  10. breaking down my debate on voting & military service
  11. How The Manhattan Institute Helped Paul Singer Siphon Billions from Dying Asbestos Victims
  12. Duplicate Data at the University of Chicago
  13. Academic Finance’s WikiLeaks Moment: Confidential Referee Records Exposed
  14. The Legend of Log(NAICS)
  15. His Name Was Seth Rich, Part III: The Guccifer 2.0 Deception
  16. I Exposed a $110 Million Crypto Scammer. Then It Got Dark.
  17. My First Political Monologue
  18. U.S. Lawmakers Fight to Merge the Israeli and American Militaries
  19. The Father-Son Scandal Corrupting Academic Finance
  20. I’m a YouTuber Now, Apparently
  21. New Seth Rich Documents Blow Open the Case 10 Years Later
  22. Exclusive: Michigan Insurance Giant Lays Off Thousands, Blames “AI” — But the Evidence Points Overseas
  23. Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It's Stabilizing Housing Prices.
  24. How The Manhattan Institute Hired a Porn Star to Infiltrate The Conservative Movement and Channel its Energy into Being Pro-Israel
  25. Exclusive: Chinese-American Professor Sues Southern Methodist University over Discrimination & Retaliation by Indian Professors
  26. Elise Stefanik's New Book Exposes Her as a Fraud
  27. Missouri Lieutenant Governor Launches H-1B Investigation Based on My Twitter Crusade
  28. Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown; Hundreds of Papers At Risk of Retraction
  29. 23 More Academic Scandals
  30. 36 Charts That Show Canada’s Decline
  31. Wisconsin Becomes 38th State to Enact IHRA Speech Code; Ohio Set to Follow as 39th
  32. DC Meetup: Dinner & Drinks this Wednesday
  33. Join Me in Washington, D.C. on March 19th — Discount Code for Readers
  34. 26 More Academic Scandals
  35. CNN: America is going to war with Iran to “fulfill the mitzvah of remembering Amalek”
  36. Are you Smarter than a Rothschild?
  37. Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel
  38. Trump Betrayed the Youth. Now MAGA Is Burning.
  39. The Cato Institute Is Disemboweling America
  40. We Need to Talk About Amalek
  41. my appearance on The Scott Horton Show
  42. The Biggest Winner in Venezuela: Paul “The Vulture” Singer

2025 26

  1. professional update
  2. The Karolyi Dynasty and the Corruption of Academic Finance
  3. Harvard's PhD Bloodbath
  4. 16 More Academic Scandals
  5. The Collapse of the Econ PhD Job Market
  6. Canadian Detective Found Guilty of Investigating Infant Deaths Linked to mRNA Vaccines
  7. Pam Bondi Goes Woke Right, Spits on Charlie Kirk's Grave
  8. I’ll let you in on an open secret: Lisa Cook wasn’t fired for mortgage fraud
  9. Lisa Cook’s Tenure Packet Exposed
  10. EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Report Finds Harvard Professor Failed Burden of Proof in Misconduct Probe
  11. MIT Econ PhD Student Kicked Out for Massive Fraud
  12. His Name Was Seth Rich [Part 2: WikiLeaks]
  13. University of Michigan Pulls Hacked EJMR Dataset and Launches Investigation
  14. His Name Was Seth Rich [Part 1: Introduction]
  15. How Senate Republicans Are Using Fake Polls to Justify Bombing Iran
  16. Bill Ackman Thinks Your Sons Should Finish Israel’s Fight
  17. Exclusive: Trump Administration Launches Probe Into Yale’s Use of Hacked EJMR Data
  18. Interview with the Previously Prohibited podcast
  19. Avraham Eisenberg Sentenced to 52 Months in Prison for Child Porn Following Karlstack Investigation
  20. A Zionist Onslaught Against Freedom of Speech [Part 1]
  21. The George Mason PhD Student Who Called for Blood
  22. I Was Fired by the Manhattan Institute. Here's Why.
  23. Cartoons of Contempt: When Satire Becomes State Weaponry
  24. Canada's Claudine Gay Moment Falls Flat
  25. The Girl Who Went Home to Nebraska
  26. Top 50 Nick Fuentes Pedophile Scandals

2024 46

  1. The Manhattan Institute Deleted This Article
  2. EXCLUSIVE: Harvard Professor Ryan Enos Found GUILTY in Massive Critical Race Theory Data Fraud
  3. Help Bring Colin Home
  4. Foreign influence operation exposed: Chris Rufo forms alliance with George Soros-funded magazine to call for censorship
  5. Chris Brunet (Hailed Twice)
  6. Right-wing anti-Zionism is on the rise in America
  7. Why Is George Soros Funding COMPACT?
  8. a Based and Brave reply to Chris Rufo
  9. Breaking: Chris Rufo calls for tighter censorship on X
  10. Chris Brunet vs. Christopher Rufo
  11. PEI Government Rejects Protestors' Work Permit Extensions Following Hate Crime Hoax
  12. Professor at Toulouse School of Economics Writes Open Letter Accusing Harvard Professor of Plagiarism
  13. 22 more academic scandals
  14. Exclusive: Indian Protestors Stage Hate Crime Hoax in Canada
  15. Paradise and Oppression in Nicaragua
  16. You know what’s cooler than 10,000 subscribers? 100,000 subscribers.
  17. Why Canadian Conservatives Lose: A Case Study
  18. UPDATE: Regeneron ISEF winner withdraws project, returns $50,000 prize
  19. I was interviewed by The Harvard Crimson
  20. Prince Edward Island to Indian Immigrants: "We're full.''
  21. challenging Mark Cuban to a debate
  22. Exclusive: Scandal at America's Top Science Fair
  23. Philosophy heavyweights defend free speech after Cambridge lecturer is canceled over Substack article that constituted a ''rejection of DEI policies''
  24. DEI Was Never About Profitability
  25. EXCLUSIVE: Avi Eisenberg charged with possession of child pornography
  26. interview with Coffeezilla
  27. Ashes of Apathy in El Salvador
  28. Lisa Cook's new plagiarism scandal was entirely predictable
  29. 27 more academic scandals
  30. Letitia James’s Offensive Against VDARE is Harrowing for Free Speech
  31. Claudia Sahm stole the ''Sahm Rule'' from Bill Dudley. It should be called the "Dudley-Sahm Rule''.
  32. GraceMed CEO resigns following Karlstack investigation
  33. University of San Diego Retracts Illegal Job Posting Following Karlstack Inquiry
  34. Rampant text recycling at the world's largest independent research organization [PART 1]
  35. Exclusive: Healthcare CEO refuses to resign or provide proof of doctorate following Karlstack investigation
  36. Before Claudine Gay retroactively corrected her plagiarized PhD thesis... there was Terrell Strayhorn
  37. A Personal IVF Story
  38. 35 More Academic Scandals
  39. Exclusive: Harvard Alumnae Demand University ‘Commit to DEI in All Facets of University Hiring and Admissions’
  40. Romania is quietly doing great
  41. Timeless or Tired? A Critical Examination of Sowell’s ‘Social Justice Fallacies’
  42. Chris Brunet: Who Is the Man Behind Gay’s Ouster at Harvard?
  43. The King has no clothes: Claudine Gay's mentor built his fiefdom on bullying, censorship, incompetence and... plagiarism?
  44. Claudine Gay: my part in her downfall
  45. HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY
  46. Harvard President Claudine Gay Hit With Six New Charges Of Plagiarism

2023 97

  1. Inside The Plagiarism Scandal Roiling Harvard
  2. for me, this was personal
  3. ACKMAN: Claudine Gay has been asked to resign
  4. These scholars asked Claudine Gay for her data. She said no.
  5. Georgetown professor stripped of tenure following Karlstack investigation
  6. John McWhorter is an American hero
  7. EXCLUSIVE: Statement on Claudine Gay from Vernon Smith, Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
  8. Harvard is the Bud Light of academia
  9. BREAKING: US Congress launches plagiarism probe!
  10. Breaking: Fresh Allegations of Plagiarism Unearthed in Official Academic Complaint Against Claudine Gay
  11. i'm thinking of doing a PhD, can you help?
  12. EXCLUSIVE: Statement on Claudine Gay from Philip Dybvig, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics
  13. Harvard's double standard for Gay
  14. my first TV appearance
  15. Giorgia Meloni Falls Short
  16. LEAKED DOCUMENTS: The President of Harvard swept fabricated data under the rug
  17. Tenured Georgetown professor scrubbed from faculty directory following Karlstack investigation
  18. The State of Karlstack: Subscription Drive
  19. My (reuploaded) Stanford seminar
  20. My full lecture at the Stanford University Classical Liberalism Initiative
  21. The Ballad of the Bibby Stockholm
  22. How A Doxxing Scandal Wrecked The 'Trust The Experts' Ethos
  23. Update: Helen Grus Legal Defense Fund raises over $16,000 in 24 hours
  24. Trudeau regime puts Canadian detective on trial for investigating link between infant deaths and mRNA vaccines
  25. Numbers on the Italian Migrant Situation
  26. Florian Ederer: Plagiarist!
  27. Fraud at Georgetown Finance Shakes the Foundation of the Corporate Bond Literature
  28. BREAKING: Mastodon server to be SHUT DOWN following Karlstack investigation
  29. My email to Yale IRB, legal counsel, provost, president, and deans
  30. I discussed suicide on EJMR
  31. How to Expose Academic Fraud - PODCAST
  32. UNPAYWALLED: my latest for The American Conservative
  33. Must watch: Thomas Sowell's first public appearance in 3 years
  34. COVID kabuki ramps back up in America
  35. Florian Ederer: the next Fiona Scott Morton?
  36. 28 More Academic Scandals
  37. Pope Francis continues to alienate American traditionalists
  38. Pope Francis continues to alienate American traditionalists
  39. Breaking: Avraham Eisenberg caught with child pornography following Karlstack investigation
  40. It's time for Anya Samek to step up
  41. Fundraiser for Data Colada - important if you value academic free speech
  42. Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 6]
  43. Destroying Canada’s Farms, for What?
  44. Karlstack goes to Stanford
  45. Fatal flaw found in Ederer et al. (2023)
  46. Twitter Poster Railroaded for Free Speech by Biden’s DOJ
  47. EXCLUSIVE: Every economist on Mastodon just had their anonymity compromised by hackers from Yale University 🍿🍿🍿
  48. Rest in Peace, Roxham Road [UNPAYWALLED]
  49. EJMR doxxing watch party, live from NBER, starts in TWO HOURS!
  50. Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 2]
  51. Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 1]
  52. 23 More Academic Scandals
  53. Write Wing Roundup #2 -- Twitter space starts in TWO HOURS!
  54. I am hosting a Twitter space in ONE HOUR FROM NOW!
  55. The Economics Profession is Systemically Racist and Sexist (against Asian males)
  56. BREAKING: American Economic Review retracts Princeton economics professor's paper due to "coding error"
  57. BREAKING: HBS professor placed on "administrative leave" following bombshell investigation into fake data
  58. How to Hike Canada's Most Expensive Mountain for less than $50... Theoretically
  59. Rest in Peace, Roxham Road
  60. Ottawa's Jussie Smollett Moment
  61. This PhD student at Brown University keeps threatening to murder Matt Walsh
  62. Postcard from Alberta
  63. 24 More Academic Scandals
  64. The Taco Truck Delusion [Unpaywalled!]
  65. Update: Woo Network Sheds 30 Million in Market Cap Following Karlstack Reporting
  66. A Warning about WOO X: Withdraw!
  67. Issue #3: Canada Forges Ahead with CBDC While Florida, Texas & North Carolina Ban It
  68. EXCLUSIVE: Leaked admissions data gives glimpse into Harvard's affirmative action practices
  69. Update: Calgary Cop Killer To Be Sentenced as Adult
  70. Bill C-11 Becomes Law of the Land
  71. Issue #2: CBDC is More Dangerous Than AI
  72. Launching This Week in Central Bank Digital Currency
  73. The Taco Truck Delusion
  74. The Crucifixion of Avraham Eisenberg
  75. Canadian Censorship Bill Inches Closer to Reality
  76. 8 More Academic Scandals
  77. Join Karlstack on Notes!
  78. Criminology Professor "Abruptly Leaves" Florida State University Following Karlstack Reporting
  79. The Anti-Defamation League Defames Substack
  80. Duplicate Data at the University of Chicago
  81. George Mason University Economics Department Takes a Stand Against the DEI Agenda In Academia
  82. David Card Blackpilled an Entire Generation of Economists [repost]
  83. Karlstack Hits One Million Reads🥳
  84. American Political Science Review Issues "Expression of Concern" Following Karlstack Investigation
  85. Affirmative Action in Jail Sentencing
  86. Six More Academic Scandals
  87. 26 Growth Lessons from 26 Substack Writers
  88. The Nick Bostrom Scandal Differentiates Effective Altruism From Rationalism
  89. The End of Academia As We Know It
  90. Exclusive: Fox News Executives Censor Tucker Carlson in Order to Protect Pfizer
  91. The Price Cap On Russian Oil Seems to be Working... For Now
  92. The GOP's Civil War Approaches an Apogee
  93. I Donated My Body to Science Out of Spite
  94. The Federal Reserve Goes Woke 2: Electric Boogaloo
  95. WANTED: Justin Trudeau's DNA
  96. The Future of Karlstack
  97. Exclusive: Evidence ElonJet is a Scammer

2022 90

  1. BREAKING: FBI Arrests Mango Markets Exploiter Following Karlstack Investigation
  2. See you in January
  3. Fabricated Data Goes Unpunished at Florida State University
  4. Four of the Latest Academic Scandals
  5. BREAKING: Harvard Taps Gay as Next President
  6. The Largest Bug Bounty in Crypto History
  7. A Legislative Onslaught Against Freedom
  8. Checkmark Cognitive Dissonance
  9. New York Fed Launches CBDC Pilot Program
  10. The State of Karlstack
  11. FTX as a Controlled Demolition
  12. The American Economic Journal Goes Woke
  13. Making Peace With Never Doing a PhD
  14. Economics' #MeToo Moment: A Witch Hunt Just in Time for Halloween
  15. A Bluff Gets Called at Edinburgh Business School
  16. EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Document Proves Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Swept Fabricated Data Under the Rug
  17. Karltok
  18. EXCLUSIVE: The Man Who May Have Milked $100+ Million from Mango Markets
  19. Ryan Enos Waves His Hands
  20. Send Noah Smith to the Donbas
  21. START HERE
  22. The Cost of Plagiarism & P-Hacking
  23. Postcard From Yucatán Peninsula ☀️
  24. Keeping Tabs on the Ford Foundation
  25. Ford Foundation Shuts Down Fellowship Program
  26. The Death Throes of the Canadian Green Party
  27. Carl Icahn's Redemption Arc
  28. All My Earthly Possessions Fit Into These 2 Bags
  29. 🚨Karlstack Hits 100 Paid Subscribers🚨
  30. This Princeton Economics Professor Doesn't Know Basic Math
  31. Boycott the American Economic Association
  32. Western University Hit With Lawsuit!
  33. This Job Posting is Racist and Illegal
  34. Western University Goes Full Retard
  35. The State of Karlstack
  36. Discrimination is Now Legal at Ontario Universities
  37. Journal of Finance Withdraws Article Following Karlstack Investigation
  38. Kalshi Murders PredictIt
  39. The State of Pronouns in Academia
  40. Maryland Congressional Race Reveals Glimpse into GOP Slime Machine
  41. Probe Launched Into Harvard Professor Following Karlstack Investigation
  42. Uber Bribes French Economics Professors
  43. Canada's Retarded New Plan to Emulate Sri Lanka
  44. The State of PPMP: Month 1 (+10.3%)
  45. Leak me documents please
  46. The American Political Science Review Goes Woke
  47. Is it Moral to Gamble on War?
  48. Marco Di Maggio: Putting the BS in HBS
  49. Where Should I Move?
  50. Credential Fraud By The Co-Creator of the Dudley-Sahm Rule?
  51. The Conservative Party of Canada Jumps the Shark
  52. Update on Fabricated Accounting Data
  53. This is how honest scholars respond
  54. Shuo Chen & Yiming Cao: The Men Who Made History
  55. AutoAdmit is Now Banned... EJMR Will Be Next
  56. Cease and Desist Deez Nuts
  57. Princeton Plagiarism
  58. Housekeeping
  59. BREAKING: The President of Harvard Just Resigned
  60. Ryan, I’ve known you for over a decade.
  61. Update on AJPS / Harvard Corruption
  62. Another Stinker at the Journal of Finance
  63. EXCLUSIVE: Chimpanzee Showdown in Missouri
  64. Press Release: PPMP Announces First Tranche of Initial Token Offering
  65. An Open Plea For One Single Honest Academic
  66. His Name Was Seth Smith
  67. How the Australian Regime is Weaponizing Credentialism to Crackdown on Free Speech & Independent Journalism on Behalf of Vested Interests
  68. The Canadian General Captured (?) by Russia
  69. Fleeing the Trudeau Regime
  70. Lisa Cook is Successfully Confirmed To Fed Board
  71. 2 Scandals at the Journal of Financial Economics
  72. A Bluff Gets Called at Singapore Management University
  73. The State of Karlstack
  74. Lisa Cook Suffers Serious Setback in Senate
  75. The Slime Machine Targeting Libs of Tik Tok
  76. The Curious Case of Claudine Gay
  77. Chad Topaz Booted From the Williams College Math Department
  78. Senator Calls For Investigation Into Lisa Cook
  79. Anatomy of an Alleged DAO Scam
  80. The Top 10 Scandals in Academic Economics That You've Never Heard Of
  81. Fabricated Data Swept Under the Rug at Chicago Booth
  82. EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Cook's Tenure Packet
  83. Plagiarism at Yale School of Management
  84. Pressure Mounts on Harvard Professor to Come Clean Over Fraudulent Data
  85. Why Is Jesse Singal Whitewashing Harvard's Corruption?
  86. Woke Mathematicians Are Putting Their Enemies On A Surveillance List
  87. EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Complaint Shows Harvard Professor Fabricated Data
  88. Farewell to Karlstack
  89. The Economics Profession is Systemically Racist and Sexist
  90. Frauds in the Duke, Boston, and Stanford Economics Departments

2021 34

  1. Open Letter from an Anonymous Ontario Teacher
  2. Shots Fired in the Math Civil War
  3. State of the EJMR Union: November
  4. The State of Inflation: November
  5. Call Me By Your Name
  6. BREAKING: Woke mob at ASU tries to get Kyle Rittenhouse expelled
  7. Karlstack is 6 Months old
  8. Leaked Email Shows Ford Foundation Using Political Influence to Bully ASU Administration
  9. Forecasting the Rittenhouse Verdict
  10. The State of Inflation: October
  11. The State of EJMR: October
  12. fire Kristalina Georgieva into the sun
  13. The Death of the Canadian Green Party
  14. Justin can’t get it up
  15. The Lynching of Roland Fryer
  16. Princeton cucks MIT
  17. MIT cancels Chicago geophysicist lecture under pressure from twitter activists
  18. That racist chick from ASU who went viral yesterday? She wasn't an undergrad... she was a Ford Fellow
  19. Whistleblower emails reveal partisan rot at Ford Foundation, that gets "nonpartisan" tax perks
  20. State of EJMR Union: August and September
  21. Polymarket Prediction: August Inflation
  22. Polymarket Prediction: July Inflation
  23. I am putting together team to solve a decentralized inflation problem
  24. State of the EJMR Union: July 2021
  25. Decentralized Deathpools are Coming
  26. Polymarket Prediction: June Inflation
  27. The State of EJMR: June 2021
  28. Karlstack is 1 Month Old: a Retrospective
  29. David Card Blackpilled an Entire Generation of Economists
  30. Andrew Giuliani Should Drop Out of the New York Gubernatorial Race
  31. The Federal Reserve Goes Woke
  32. Polymarket Prediction: Will inflation be 0.4% or more from April to May?
  33. hello world
  34. Karlstack