Darren Lilleker, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, and Anastasia Veneti edited this insta-book of post-election analyses.

Actually, at least one of these chapters was written before the election. When the editors asked me if I could contribute to this book, I said, sure, and I pointed them to this article from a few weeks ago, “Trump-Clinton Probably Won’t Be a Landslide. The Economy Says So.” After the election, I changed the tenses of a few verbs and produced “Trump-Clinton was expected to be close: the economy said so.”

I haven’t had a chance to read any of the other chapters, but I glanced at the table of contents and noticed that one of them was by Ken Cosgrove, from Mad Men, writing on brand loyalty and politics. Cool! I knew the guy had published a short story in the Atlantic, so I guess it was only a matter of time before he dabbled in political science as well.