#Academics

On Bari Weiss’s supposed martyrdom: my mind goes back to the brutal attacks on @IlhanMN and @lsarsour she made in articles (and before that Muslim congressman Keith Ellison), accusing them
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This is just embarrassing. If you read it and thought ‘yes, how could anyone disagree?,’ please look again: “The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure...” We KNOW this
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I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166
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A thread from a young doctor's fb post 1. LIFTING THE BAN ON HYDROXY CHLOROQUINE: IMPACT ON INDIAN HEALTH CARE In the event of the current Corona pandemic, we support
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BREAKING: Retired Army Colonel [30 yrs] w/ over 15 years of experience in Information Warfare, Electronic & Special Electronic Warfare, Computer Network Operations, Op Sec & more in PA Hearing:
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Ok. Here's Part-1 of the grad school application thread where I talk about the first step of shortlisting universities and professors, and writing your first email to them. This is
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THREAD: I think this piece by @JoshuaMound poses some useful provocations. I also think to some extent he sets up a straw man (specifically @AlecMacGillis). It is possible to both
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A reporter has posted a new trove of IS documents online, mostly combat unit intake forms, w/o redactions. This release makes me viscerally uneasy & uncomfortable. A thread about grey
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The jubilation shown today by remnants of Remain movement and FBPE reminds us how utterly this movement and its self-appointed 'leaders' failed. A movement representing half the electorate, with huge
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Why Christians Cannot Align with the Left (THREAD): The left today celebrates the genocide of babies, pornography, promiscuity, polyamory, drag queens twerking for children, gender dysphoria, homosexuality, man-hating feminism, authoritaria
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What’s Measured is What ImprovesA thread https://jackbrunswick.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/whats-measured-is-what-improves/ What gets measured is what we pay attention to. What we pay attention to receives more time and effort put into it.
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I'm seeing a lot of Cdn opinion pieces that demand Trudeau tell us "How long might we be in this battle? How brutal could it get?"I'm not sure I understand
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1. A thread about cronyism in #Manchester 2. In 2014 Sir Howard Bernstein was chief exec of Manchester City Council which did large commercial property deal with Abu Dhabi govt
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1. An interesting thing about writing a book on the Religious Left: when folks talk to me about it, the convo often includes a discussion of all the different stories
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Several days ago a local reporter asked what was the reason for the "interest" Venezuelans have about politics (and elections) in the United States. We spoke about Venezuelan-Americans and their
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