#Polarization

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

It is easy to see of the loss of life from covid19, and hard to see the loss of life from closing schools, but, make no mistake, both rob people

Cathy Young

CathyYoung63

Just realized I forgot to reply to this by @derocrates https://humanevents.com/2020/09/21/wartime-conservatives-against-appeasement/ First of all, I think the "wartime conservatism" rhetoric is ludicrous and takes us further down

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

So much has happened geopolitically, culturally and spiritually during my absence from this space.. January was bananas. February was bananas. Between Iran, Australian fires, the largely meaningless political theatre of

dikaiopolis_2

dikaiopolis_2

How can we capture maturation within society (bildung) when so much of society is bent on polarizing everyone?One option is to focus only on the process of harmonizing with those

Steak-umm

steak_umm

critical thinking beef tips, A THREADcritical thinking is not a singular skill. it’s a constant state of metacognition, measuring evidence, and recognizing when to defer to experts. it's analyzing this

Georges Haddad

Georges__Haddad

I was walking around Gemayze, Mar Mikhael, and Martyrs' Square and took some pictures of graffitis and a couple of other things that pretty much illustrate the situation in #Lebanon.

Chris Reus-Smit

CReussmit

Ten thoughts on Covid and World Politics (see thread). @POLSISEngage @UQ_POLSIS_Grads @soaspolitics @IAJournal_CH 1. The virus is a quintessential material phenomenon, but its varied effects in different countries bear out

The Tweet Sniper💥

IWashington

"Black and Blue" is the third episode of the second season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street, and the twelfth overall episode of the

Jacob T. Levy

jtlevy

I am definitely not on @roddreher 's side on the underlying questions, but I do think there's something very real in what he's describing. Going after Kim Davis and Masterpiece

Strategy of Tension CEO

iamthewub

So I watched the new hyped Netflix doc "The Social Dilemma" & it amounted to a radical centrist propaganda film (which is ironic considering a fictional subplot that ties the

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

I may be proven wrong, but I think the debates will be a fact-checking fail. Nothing like a real time check on Trump's firehose of falsehood will unfold. At best

Alec MacGillis

AlecMacGillis

I’ve been trying to make sense of the extraordinarily mixed messages coming from college administrations that brought students back to campus but are now upbraiding them with all manner of

Richard Hanania

RichardHanania

A new paper with @epkaufm and George Hawley on the Great Awokening, progressive racial rhetoric, and whether it leads to a backlash among white Americans. We find that talking about

Mike Madrid

madrid_mike

Time to dispel some misinformation on the anti-mask/anti-vaccine movement. Unfortunately it appears there’s now an attempt to suggest this isnt largely a fringe movement of the alt-right and right wing

(((Barak)))

lawnerdbarak

So @ezraklein asked liberals to articulate what it was Mcconnell did “wrong” with the Garland blockade, and so I thought I’d try to give an explanation of a couple of

Teddy Fusaro

teddyfuse

My sense (from reading tweets, reading WSJ & NYT, watching e.g. CNN/CNBC) is that people are not grasping the severity of the economic situation we’re in (note: I’m NOT talking