#Critique

SCC nerd alert: Stern & Stiglitz are out with a new take that's bound to make some waves.The upshot: It's a cogent critique of 'traditional' approaches.But: their 'recommendation' is an
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I have thoughts on this piece:https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1297203935535538178 Joseph Bottums argues that the rise of “woke culture” is not just coinciding with the collapse of religious (specifically Protestant) identity; it i
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Okay, here we go. I research the AANES (Rojava) in graduate school and wrote a 200+ thesis on it when in undergrad. My hot take is that its success thus
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Ok let's dig deeper into this theory, which is informed by the findings from the fieldwork I did for my book.https://twitter.com/RizomaSchool/status/1344287828667228161?s=20 In educated circles (that is, among college educated and
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It looks like @RepMarciaFudge is chosen as the new @HUDgov Secretary. Very interesting choice by the Biden-Harris team. We don't know much about what Rep. Fudge thinks on housing, but
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Thread: @bopinion Ed. Board propose #Biden should prioritise regional negotiations btwn #Iran+neighbours & hold back from rejoining nuclear deal. No doubt regional talks urgently needed as parallel track - but
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the either/or logical fallacy in this fucking argument is rooted in white supremacy culture. the idea that if you make a mistake then you ARE a mistake is an internal
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L’universalisme au dĂ©fi de l’intersectionnalitĂ© et ses dĂ©rives dĂ©coloniales-indigĂ©nistes, et de l’usage politique du «sentiment d’offense». Thread philosophico-politique Tour d'horizon...1. Origine de l'intersectionna
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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that issues of identity are the main ground of disagreement between many in the crypto community and @RadxChange.Thread: First of all, by identity, I
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Okay actually gonna expand on this a bit. The EU acting in a brash way over health issues is not new. That is how these superpowers (esp Western ones) function
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Dearest Reader/Writer, Being unpublished & searching for an agent/publisher is like being a Regency debutante trying to make an advantageous match, let me count the ways. A thread. 1/13 In
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La période dans laquelle nous sommes prend de plus en plus l'aspect d'une période pré-révolutionnaire. Attention, « pré- » ne veut pas dire qu'elle précÚde forcément une révolution. Simplement qu'elle contient d
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I think I'm having one of the biggest aha moments I've had all year, which is that in many ways folks who belong to the "woke" left & those who
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Vermeule in 2008 wrote that conspiracy theorists cultivate "paranoid cognition" among their followers to isolate them & make outsiders appear "sinister" (full text below)After @ChronicleReview *invited* me to pen a
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Someone with the range must unpack how our beloved queen Beyoncé is reducing blackness and Africanness to aesthetics and the western imaginations of our existence. They must also speak about
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A person living in Los Angeles, short for "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula" has told me that Americans should speak English. This
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