#Institutions

Alboin

alboinusrex

There's something deeply melancholic & tragic about Trump's Farewell Address. Much of it is his typical self-congratulatory boilerplate. But there is also a sincere wish to restore self-government to the

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

At the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in 1997, Professor Sampie Terreblanche made a submission that South Africa should impose a wealth tax. This was accepted by the TRC but rejected

WomenUniting

WomenUnitingUK

1/15 @Commonswomequ EVIDENCE thread:Lots of new evidence to the WESC inquiry published yesterday, including this from @FiLiA_charity "People are free to express themselves and identify themselves however they want to.

Lizzie Taylor

LizzieTaylor20

1. For the last decade the effect of government policy has been to limit the access that English school pupils have had to 1 to 1 #CareersAdvice sessions with a

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Reactionaries v. ConservativesThe GOP is no longer conservative. It’s reactionary. Let’s stop calling it “conservative.”True conservatives, according to NYU prof. @Jonhaidt, form a kind of yin-yang balance with liberals

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

ok the cover photo on this article is an abomination BUT THE CONTENT IS REALLY GOODhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/election-protests-alone-wont-stop-coup/616895/ Breakdown:1. Taking to the streets is good but not sufficien

honor sachs

drhonor

I'm feeling useless and angry today and want to put something out into the world that might help somebody so here goes:On Jan. 1, 2021, I received student loan forgiveness

PEG

pegobry

Ok, so, I'm a huge @JohnHMcWhorter fan, but there's something just wrong-headed about his latest rant against the scourge of Wokism. (Thread.)https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists And that is his framing o

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

A must read in @TheProspect. Hamilton always gets the love on industrial policy, but @GaneshSitaraman recovers Franklinian, Madisonian, and Jacksonian traditions as well.https://twitter.com/GaneshSitaraman/status/1304113040111988736 It'

Freshworks Inc

FreshworksInc

Fourteen. That’s the size of @vedantu_learn’s customer support team. They’ve had to handle around 12,000 tickets every day over the pandemic restrictions. A thread. With stay-at-home orders placed on India’s

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) Dreaded thread on why I think the response to postcritique is so vitriolic. Short version: Because literary studies is a discipline in search of an application. 2) Before I

Julie Lynch

juliaflynch

I've been haranguing political scientists about good and bad uses of COVID death data. This seemingly minor intervention by Belgium's health minister provides a great example of why this matters

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

So the rightwing chatter on this predictably is that this proves Twitter has an anti-conservative bias.The reality remains: they coddle conservatives so much that by the time they're forced to

Rush Doshi

RushDoshi

Excited to share a new piece with Kurt Campbell in @ForeignAffairs!The US is entering its 5th wave of declinist handwringing in the last century, but fatalism is premature. The China

tamara k. nopper

tamaranopper

Many know of Audre Lorde’s quote that caring for herself is “an act of political warfare.”I have concerns with the narrative of Lorde’s self-care that often circulates. And I think

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

So, one more set of thoughts on Labour and patriotism. Last one for now, I promise. I think there are some interesting underlying similarities between Labour's patriotism headache and the

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