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Venkatesh Rao
vgr
Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition.A grift is a scheme that profits from the
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maddiecare for all 💫💕
Perf_Maddie
Since I know most of the raggedy rich bitches at WashU don’t consider service staff worthy of a conversation, let me make a quick thread of “WashU culture” and what
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Eric Rauchway
rauchway
Readers of this feed may know that I believe Roosevelt campaigned on the New Deal in 1932—contrary to a widespread impression he did not. George Selgin of Cato says "Rauchway
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S.P.A.
TheRealSPA
Happy 104th Birthday I. M. PeiA thread http://waldina.com/2021/04/26/happy-104th-birthday-i-m-pei/ Today is the 104th birthday of the architect I.M. Pei. I first witnessed his work in person with the I. Magnin on Pine
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Back in 2016, @thomasfrank_'s "Listen, Liberal!" forcefully explained that "liberals" are not leftists, and that while we on the left might sometimes ally with liberals, we are not on the
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Paul Poast
ProfPaulPoast
@SecPompeo wants a "new alliance of democracies".Can this happen after 3+ years of @realDonaldTrump berating traditional US allies?Absolutely! IR scholarship shows that forming alliances has little to do with being
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Omar Wasow
owasow
What could #BlackLivesMatter mean for writers & scholars? I’ve been thinking about this over the last three days since @NathanJRobinson critiqued my study on the political consequences of 1960s
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Left POCket Project
LeftPOC
"Who's that in your avatar?" you might ask.That's Marielle Franco, Brazilian researcher, socialist, & human rights activist murdered yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, likely by the police whose brutality she
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vakibs
vakibs
In this thread, I will discuss the colonial invention of the religion called "Buddhism". I will summarize some arguments from S.N. Balagangadhara's book "Do all roads lead to Jerusalem?" I
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G.Krithiha
krithiha
@vikatan @AnandaVikatan @JuniorVikatan. @Suriya_offlகொரோனா காலத்தில் கோவில் சர்ச்சை அவசியமா??கோவில்களால் ஒரு பயனும் இல்லை ; நடிகை கூறியது சரிதானே !கோவில்களுக்கு ஆதரவு தெரிவிப்பவர்கள் சங்கிகள் ;என பல்வேறு விவாதங்கள் ஓடிக் கொண்டிருக்கின்ற வேளையில், இன்
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Albert Pinto
70sBachchan
China doubling down on Coal is as much about military strategy —their “Malacca Dilemma”— as it is about cheap industrialization & electricity.https://twitter.com/HeuristicLineup/status/1125121874755604480 "Energy insecurity
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Jeffrey Alan Miller
jeffalanmiller
A thread on the ongoing “freeze” (or collapse) in #HigherEd of faculty hiring in the #Humanities: ... 1/ Over the weekend, I learned that @NJBIZ and its Chief Editor @jkanige
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Rob of X
RobertSecundus
ok big WAY OF X #1 megathread. mute if you don't want #xspoilers or if you do not care about comic books or do not want to listen to me
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Thomas Zimmer
tzimmer_history
I reviewed @ezraklein‘s “Why We’re Polarized” for @hsozkult. A few thoughts, from a historical perspective, on an important book that still left me unconvinced that "polarization" is the right lens
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Danielle Navarro
djnavarro
I often hear it asserted that there is very little opportunity for nuance when discussing transgender topics online. I think that is true, in the sense that there are a
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Rachel Gurvich
RachelGurvich
Let's talk remote pedagogy! I'll use this thread to share some ideas and resources for professors--especially law professors--teaching online this fall. (It's going to be a long thread, and I'll
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