#Institutions

Bradly Mason

AlsoACarpenter

A refresher: What is Critical Race Theory after all? As drawn from the explicit answers to this question given by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Devon Carbado,

Dr Angela Trentacoste

dr_bone_lady

Made it to the extremely impressive Etruschi - Journey Through the Lands of the Rasna exhibit at the Bologna Museo Civico Archaeologico The mostra brings together some 1,400 objects from

Aditya Dasgupta

_adasgupta

Thing about state capacity: takes rare societal consensus + generations of effort to build public institutions like the post office, but just a few corrupt leaders to hollow them out,

ProfB

AntheaButler

I've been thinking about writing a " I told you so" thread but let's just call it- Academics "on here" are more prepared for the post Pandemic future than their

David Fickling

davidfickling

"China's economy will overtake the U.S." is the Zeno's tortoise of high-level geopolitics. https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1200499150879543296 In 2010, Standard Chartered said it would happen in 2020.In 2014, IHS Markit said it wo

JMDavis

JessMarinDavis

Interesting article on the issue of QAnon in Canada. A few thoughts in a short thread: /nhttps://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/1316745726270099457 1) We still don't know that the #RideauHall incident was motivated by QAnon.

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

hamandcheese

Ancaps became white nationalists because they realized the institutions that would form spontaneously in a stateless society would mirror racially separated prison gangs.Murray Rothbard, for ex, supported both the Black

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JungNihang

Interesting how the intro to Terry’s report claims that grievances by Sikhs against the Indian state apparatus are political theater to “seduce” politicians — yet claims that Punjabi Sikh remembrances

Aiiduh

aiiduh

I’m glad Juneteenth was an opportunity for (descendants of) Black immigrants to understand how Black American cultural traditions are often usurped under Pan Africanism, but understand that this extends from

Marie Léger-St-Jean

Marie_LSJ

I've been having an interesting email exchange with @ivozandhuis, whom I met at the Atlas of digitized newspapers workshop run by @EmilyJLB and @mhbeals a few weeks back.I think I've

Peter Helps

PeterHelps3

Personal Message – Thoughts My Own etc. etc.!Those that have the misfortune of following me know I rarely use social media platforms to campaign. These are not normal times. The

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

The idea of convergent instrumental goals is a concept popularized by Omohundro and Bostrom. It means that, regardless of one’s ultimate goals, certain sub-goals are universal, are “instrumental” to the

Ian Dickson

IDickson258

1. Thanks to @lemnsissay for reminding me of something that oddly I never forgot. I watched his programme on BBC last night from the position of an insider, knowing more

The Leave Alliance

LeaveHQ

What we're seeing isn't right wing authoritarianism. It's Johnsonism. A government that will go to any lengths to avoid owning up to its unforced errors. It's cowardly incompetence. If it

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

I've been sitting on some thoughts about the perpetual search for useful, universal (quantitative) proxies for structural racism, and what it means when those proxies beg the question, rather than

Atiku Abubakar

atiku

The 2021 Budget Proposal Contravenes The Fiscal Responsibility Act. Looking at the 2021 Budget Proposal placed before the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, October 8, 2020, a number