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tashakaminsky

a lot of you don't know what happened to the economy after the plague took out a third of europe and it shows. first of all revolts and revolutions were

Alexandra Evans

AlexandraTEvans

After reading this thought provoking piece in @ForeignAffairs, I keep returning to one paragraph early in essay...https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-04-13/end-grand-strategy Alas, it's more than my allotted characters: I wonder if

Atif Mian

AtifRMian

Big-data driven economic analysis has made remarkable progress over the last 10/12 yearsThis has huge potential IF policy makers were to harness its power effectivelyI was in the middle of

علي | Ali

IslamAndHistory

Why liberalization of Islam tends to happen and how to avoid it and affirm orthodoxy within Islam.[Thread] It can be difficult to keep up your Islamic identity and our beliefs

Kunal Singh

d_extrovert

Since Ashley Tellis is being talked about so much, I will share a small story. In 2014, I was a nobody-- I still am a nobody-- but as a 22-year

ShalzHov

ShalzHov

Crash course on the word "coolie" since the timeline has misinformation."Coolie" comes from the Tamil word 'kuli' which means wages or hire. In the 16th century it was used by

Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD

Nicole_Lee_Sch

Every time a major academic conference has come around during the pandemic there have been debates here on efficacy, accessibility, and outcomes. And I have to say - it is

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

The second wave of studies on implicit bias tests largely discredited them. @jondavidchurch & @PsychRabble have gone into this. However, I am quite positive that humans, whose ability to learn

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almeerawhymen

Had to get this off my chest It's true Social media trends and activism will get no where majority of us including me are busy being raitas Half if the

Zareena Grewal

ZareenaGrewal

Learning so much co-teaching a grad seminar in this moment of intersecting crises on “Religion & US Empire” w/ my wonderful colleague @TisaWenger Kicked off the semester with her book

Rutger K

AnotherAspirin

There's a persistent idea in modern historiography that there were no "individuals" in the Middle Ages (you know, "artists were just craftsmen that's why they didn't sign the altarpieces they

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

In the 1960s and 1970s, there were Jewish scholars and several Jews who were secretly and openly traveling around Africa researching African Tribes to find out from which tribe they

Jorge J Rodríguez V

JJRodV

“Writing goals” have never worked for how I write. I’ve spent two months reading and reading and thinking through my next dissertation chapter without writing at all.Then, in the shower

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rearleftist

One of the nicest things about growing up in Iran (like many parts of the Global South) was that you were raised with fundamental distrust & no hope in the

Gabrielle Hecht

GabrielleHecht

Black grad students @Stanford offer a powerful analysis of the university's response to #BLM concerns and its weird reluctance to departmentalize African and African American Studies. Some highlights... 1/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2

Sammuddra Gupta

Sammuddraa

Thread on "Harshavardhana".Harshavardhana was one of the most important Indian emperors of the 7th Century. During the peak of his reign. His rule was renowned for peace, stability and prosperity,