Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
Anna Grzymala-Busse
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Super excited about this new substack from the brilliant Yiqing Xu:
yiqingxu.substack.com
Pikers.
The largest statue of Stalin was over 50 feet tall.
The statue of Mao in Chengdu is 120 feet tall and gold.
Turkmenbashi's statue was not only 40 feet tall and gold, it *revolved*
But of course these were all megalomaniacal dictators.
“The SAT, imperfect as it is, measures knowledge of the absolute basics and the ability to reason clearly under a time constraint. An SAT score would have told us—and Diego himself—the truth about his preparation before it was too late.“
Academic freedom is the basic right to research, teach, and disseminate as scholars see fit, subject to peer review.
Private Eye, as ever:
Just because Big Bad Things happen, doesn't mean that Smaller Bad Things don't matter.
This is what's known as the Saudi Arabia gambit: your gender faculty studies have it bad? Sorry, they could be in Saudi Arabia! What are you complaining about?
Oh, the replies.
Yet again, anonymous tankie accounts incapable of acknowledging that communist regimes were highly repressive and widely reviled by their own people.
iF yOu CrITIcIZE CoMmuNisM YoU'rE a Fascist AlSo! CapITaliST WeST BaD so CoMMUniSm GoOd OMFGBBQ
Communist regimes in the 1940/50s battled what they saw as “alien anti-communist agitators,” traitors trained and paid up by the West.
Autocratic regimes can never quite believe their opposition is sincere, popular, and intense
From our local community theater, a workshop that we could all use these days:
