Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Dan Nexon
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Haven’t read the WashU/Vanderbilt report yet, but if the article & takes here are at all indicative, it looks like it mirrors the central problem with the Yale “trust in higher ed” report: an attempt to tackle a social science problem without bothering to try and actually do the social science.
Why? Other than Republican conspiracism there is no actual problem with taking the time to accurately count votes. The general election is in four months!
ICYMI.
Has to be accompanied by losing a war at the frontier
The very-deliberately-off-bluesky Adam Kotsko with a discussion of the difference between social media and blogs. Relevant to my recent conversation with @drfarls.bsky.social @dhnexon.net @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/people-lik...
On the left is a screenshot of part of a phishing email that’s been around for at least six months.
On the right is what Gemini tells you when you search for the email in Google… directly above results identifying it correctly as a scam.
"It’s clear that much of what the report presents as social-justice scholarship are primarily epistemologies and other disciplinary dynamics that the authors of the report don’t like." www.chronicle.com/article/are-...
Mark Copelovitch
Michael Hobbes
there are also some, er, conversations to be had about the selective use of divestment and social responsibility demands.
Initial estimates in peer-reviewed research are that Elon Musk has killed 600,000 people in the last 18 months.
Dan Nexon
We should not be distracted by the bogeyman of social-justice scholarship.
