Luke J Schumacher
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JD Candidate @StanfordLaw | PhD Student @PoliticsUVA | Former @CamHistory , @WestPointSOSH , @USArmy Afghanistan war vet & Indo-Pacific competitor
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Is statesmanship compatible with constitutional government? In this article, I probe FDR's leadership during WWII to better specify the limits, possibilities, and ambivalences of statesmanship in the American constitutional order.
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The “pro-peace” party at Stanford is wearing Hamas headbands.
Stop gaslighting - stop telling us these protests are about peace & justice.
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@RichardHanania
Sad, if Chicago bows to the mob, there’s hardly any institution that can stand. You could argue JJM’s been concerned about Ukraine a lot longer than these students, who apparently just discovered lectures he’s been giving on the subject for 6 yrs. Debate JJM, don’t cancel him
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Thanks for clarifying, CENTCOM. For a second there I almost thought you did something useful in the AOR. Good to know your hands are still tied rescuing parts of that asinine pier.
Only time I’ve ever wondered if we should have kept Israel in EUCOM.
CENTCOM Statement Regarding IDF Rescue Operations Today
The humanitarian pier facility, including its equipment, personnel, and assets were not used in the operation to rescue hostages today in Gaza. An area south of the facility was used by the Israelis to safely return the
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@OrinKerr
How about instead of 60-120 pages, write a 30-page article like every other academic working in the humanities and social sciences?
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@Noahpinion
Because SF is doing such a fantastic job governing it’s current geographic expanse?
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@ishapiro
Right on point. Also, makes me wonder if we simply didn’t advertise well enough your wonderful talk to our FedSoc chapter a couple months back. Jk
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@jaywillis
You clearly don’t understand the chronology of events, or you’re saying something more amazing: a person gets poked for 45 minutes, finally says “stop poking me,” then we blame the victim of the poking.
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@NC_Renic
Explains so much not only about Freud but how many academics think about the purpose of lecturing.
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@jonathanchait
The passive voice is very on point. Who’s doing all this framing? Presumably the same unidentifiable forces doing all the oppressing.
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In this month's print edition of
@TheNatlInterest
(online version released today), I observe that though Biden aspires to be a modern-day FDR, our domestic politics aren't ripe for a new New Deal. [1/5]
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Actually, the problem is _The Israeli Lobby_ is a *repudiation,* not a reflection, of their structural realist logic. Structural realism (post-Waltz) claims it can explain state behavior without dipping below structural variables (anarchy, polarity, distro of capes).
The Mearsheimer-Walt theory that US foreign policy is manipulated by an Israel Lobby follows from the "realist" dogma (from academic international relations theory) in which states act only to exert power. This blinds them to many other reasons Americans support Israel, argues
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Non-Jew cosplays as self-loathing Jew to prove that if you’re a fake Jew at a tiny college in NJ on a Sunday afternoon, you may not be physically assaulted. And then the non-Jew says Jews should be thanking him.
#soBrave
Class act. This is absolutely deranged
I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭
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The spring volume of Texas National Security Review included my article on FDR, WWII, and constitutional statesmanship. Been told it may be "TL;DR."
Recently, had the chance to give an abbreviated version on the Horns of Dilemma podcast. Have a listen!
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@MuggedReality
Candice says, “I don’t know that much about William F. Buckley.” Yup - that about says it all.
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Yes, the people’s university, where 96% of the people applying are denied entry. But you can come sleep on the grass so long as you sort of hate Jews.
Guys, the vibes in the Stanford encampment are AMAZING!
They’ve set up a flea market, they’re playing music, they’re reading…
“The students in the camp are agents of their own learning!”
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@RyanDEnos
I think you’ve got it rather backwards: reasonable people can disagree about who is entitled to bully the universities, but we should all resist universities selectively invoking free speech policies when those on campus call for Jewish genocide
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@mattyryze
@BillAckman
@Harvard
That’s in no way uncommon or disfavored by the law. In fact, it’s encourage for reasons of judicial economy - organizations have capacities to sue so many plaintiffs don’t congest the courts with separate but similar cases
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@derektmuller
There’s a kernel of truth in there: Biden “didn’t take law school very seriously.”
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@RachelJessWolff
@georgetownsfs
Not aware? That's not the defense Georgetown SFS thinks it is. It only betrays a profound lack of due diligence.
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@DanielDiMartino
But his wanna-be Kissingerian “resolution” to the Russo-Ukrainian War (Kiev’s capitulation) that reads like a clever high-school essay? That’s a sticky point for me
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@samhaselby
Didn’t think the principle underlying spousal hiring is equity. It’s a bargain - school typically really wants one and induces that one to come by offering position for spouse. Or school likes them both, in which case there’s no special inducement on part of school
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My latest in
@WarOnTheRocks
: "While subtweets and op-eds are perhaps less crude than delivering a speech at a party convention, each leaves little doubt in the minds of partisans about whom the retired generals are rooting for or against come Nov." 1/2
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@Copela1492
A* World Safe for Commerce (not the). Sorry, Dale. Not sorry to Woodrow Wilson (who Dale’s title riffs off)
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@sstrawser0621
@tab_delete
Naw. That’s like saying entertaining the possibility of criminal action against an (actually) innocent is, on its face, rank authoritarianism. Charges are often the beginning of a criminal investigation, not the end. Absolutism like your rule is no way to dispense justice
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@tab_delete
I’ve worked in that office. The charge (or, information) is not a commitment to prosecute. I’m sure if your characterization of the purpose for which the reporter was there is remotely accurate, it will be dropped before a preliminary hearing. No injustice is done with charge
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@RichardHanania
@voxdotcom
And excluding lacrosse, hockey, and fencing, students athletes are disproportionately … ?
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Thanks
@LexiOHudson
of
@CivicRen1
for hosting a wonderful convo today with Tocqueville’s ancestors at chateau de
@TocquevilleFDN
. Talk of mores, democracy, and “tyranny of the minority” gave this 19th c. writing fresh resonance. Thanks
@braverangels
for sponsoring!
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@richardmaass
@OumarKBa
@hofrench
@kylelascurettes
@ThePickyEagle
Seconding
@kylelascurettes
. To really UVA it up, throw in
@m_poznansky
to consider how the lib intl order’s non-intervention principles had/has unintended consequences of pushing war into covert sphere.
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Ah, yes, the “get of jail free” paragraph whereby if all my other conclusions are wrong, this one saves my theory. That one para (in original TNI paper) and one chapter (in book-length extension) renders the End of History entirely unfalsifiable.
But it’s still brilliant work
Can’t stop thinking about this Francis Fukuyama paragraph from The End of History.
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@CaseyMattox_
For the record, the Federalist Society has never staked our a position in a case, let alone been a litigant. So, that parenthetical in the last line is a red herring
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@OrinKerr
@derektmuller
Only thing surprising about this data is the number of Republican donors.
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@ProfDBernstein
This is why a few friends and I started a new organization: Stanford Law Students for Israel. First event this week. Should be fun!
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Indeed. They demand a “permanent ceasefire” because they’re too historically ignorant to call for an armistice. And then they’re too cowardly to say that rather than an armistice, they really demand Israel’s unconditional surrender to an enemy that will never cease fire.
Kind of ridiculous that the Palestine protesters adopted the word "ceasefire", not realizing that that means a temporary pause, and then had to awkwardly pivot to "permanent ceasefire", which isn't a thing anyone says
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“…are you a Zionist?”
“Yes.”
“Then we are enemies.”
“A place that was supposed to be a sanctuary from such unreason has become a factory for it.”
Poignant essay by Theo Baker (
@tab_delete
) based on extensive and careful interviews.
The kids are not all right.
.
@Stanford
has been consumed since 10/7. Rival protest encampments grew large enough to be seen in satellite images of the school. Students are told they support genocide for wearing kippahs, and accused of terrorism for wearing keffiyehs. My latest:
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Shout-out to my editor for this piece,
@DoyleKHodges
. A true professional who's great at his job, he helped me put these ideas down in logically consistent and intelligible ways. Uncanny editorial assistance from War on the Rocks staff, really.
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@mattyryze
@BillAckman
@Harvard
No, I’m not. Organizational standing is distinct from a class-action suit. Are you seriously arguing about things you know nothing about?
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@olivertraldi
3 SOLO dissents, you say? Must be in the right.
If only the poster gave this 5 seconds of thought…
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@OrinKerr
I (half) joke. I’m trying to place a 17k-word article in a poli sci or history journal; not a lot of options. I think the freedom to write 100 pages makes many law articles too wordy, but the succinctness of poli sci articles means the evidence often sits in an online supplement.
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@ishapiro
Like casinos, there’s no such thing as secular time in an airport. It’s always 5 o’clock when you’re preparing to sit in a middle seat for hours next to strangers who don’t know the rules of polite society governing armrest use.
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Silly me, thinking Stanford Law was somehow better than Yale Law
I have questions regarding Stanford Law School’s deplorable treatment of Judge Kyle Duncan.
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@BillKristol
Problem is he never sat for the daily presidential update brief nor listened to or trusted his Intel chiefs. He wouldn’t know anything about Area 51
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@ProfPaulPoast
Think
@kylelascurettes
has done some of that rethinking, both before and after the onset of this war.
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@mideastXmidwest
I just wanna know when tennis shoes became a part of black tie? Best evidence of American decadence I’ve seen.
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@GreenPlusAnE
@SWGoldman
I think he’s kinda slippery on this point. That’s certainly the way he (re)characterizes the thesis in Identity book but it seems post hoc. Benefit of relying on Hegelian dialectics (which I’ve never read Hegel to be doing) is you get away with Hegelian obscurantism (wiggle room)
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@JulianWaller
I can see how this is useful bc comprehensive. But also distorting. I think the schema encompasses about 25 very online people. So each online right-winger gets his own category name?
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@RachelJessWolff
@georgetownsfs
Wow. How many administrators does SFS have? Not one did an ounce of due diligence. Or worse, they *did* know who he was and thought this was a guy they’d like to have at a sponsored event.
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Still waiting for all the student campers — you know, those concerned about a famine in Gaza, desirous of peace, not at all rooting for Jew-hating terrorists — to condemn the attack on the U.S. pier being built to get aid to Palestinians. Any minute now…
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Ah, my bad. Didn’t realize Hamas had come to campus in peace.
I remember, like five min ago, people in McFaul’s camp thinking shouting antisemitic threats in Charlottesville was not so peaceful. I’m a proponent of free speech. Not uni policy violations:
I don't agree with some of the slogans I see on posters at the encampment of
@Stanford
students on our campus. But as long as these students stay peaceful & don't threaten anyone, I'm fine with them living in tents for the rest of the year. (As a Montana kid, I liked camping
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Realists never used to say the “masses” knew what was better for their security and prosperity than the leader, who is assumed to a rational, security-maximizing actor. This is because, as Hamilton wrote in 1788, citizens often misconceive their interests.
The purpose of a republic is to serve the citizenry's interests.
So American foreign policy should be run more like a business - with a fiduciary mindset - and less like a crusading secular religion.
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@GabrielGlickman
@PatPorter76
@WarOnTheRocks
A rare instance of a review and a response sharpening one another, clarifying the amorphous, and bringing to the surface the genuinely intractable elements of the debate over the character, conduct, and consequences of liberal world order.
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@mattyryze
@BillAckman
@Harvard
I won’t speculate on the motives. My only intent was to indicate that the students’ development of an org, even if only developed yesterday and even if only to establish standing, is not all that uncommon. In many cases, courts would prefer it over disposing of many cases.
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Marc Trachtenberg — political science’s gain, history’s loss. I think the only place for diplomatic and military historians in the US is now at professional military education (PME) institutions and service academies. Shame
When I was at UCLA, I had a political science professor who was near retirement and told us he was a "refugee" from the history department. He studied the Cold War, and there was no interest in that in history departments anymore because every research agenda had to revolve
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Jewish Studies departments have long been little more than mediums for laundering hatred of Israel.
Perhaps more disappointing is that this writing was awarded. Aspiring Judith Butler here.
Stanford's "Best Honors Thesis in Jewish Studies" goes to "a ritual performance grieving the Israeli occupation and destruction of Gaza, heightened since October 2023."
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@shifrinson
Dale Copeland is an archive rat. Especially the Japan chapter in Economic Interdependence and War
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@memurray67
@Doctrine_Man
@Martin_Dempsey
I really still don’t get Twitter. I had a friend
@TS_Allen
point out subtweeting to me; that’s really the only way I can recognize it.
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@nikhil_palsingh
@petersavodnik
- his essays are always nuanced, penetrating, and beautifully written
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@ElbridgeColby
Never weaken your adversaries for fear that it will motivate them to come back stronger at some unspecified future point? This logic stretches credulity.
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@PatPorter76
Back to Copeland’s theory of future trade expectations. Sometimes interdependence fosters peace, sometimes conflict. The vulnerability to cutoff is real.
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@RadioFreeTom
@ichbinilya
@ignighted
It is assessed that this assessment is so poor that no assessor will attach his or her name to said assessment we assess with a high probability to be assessed as true.
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@AlexMStark
@anjalikdayal
@Megan_A_Stewart
@WarOnTheRocks
Great, measured piece and necessary antidote to sensationalized commentary that lobotomizes us to genuine, if less spectacular, threats at home.
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Not “period.” Proportionality test in the law of war requires weighing (1) the military advantage gained, against (2) the incidental civilian harm. We can hardly ever say something was “disproportionate” per this text. Without knowing either (1) or (2), we can’t even begin to
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@ishapiro
I mean, this is deplorable, no doubt. Then again, DJT celebrated this kind of breach, only at the Capitol. Will the American people tolerate that? Election could turn on which kind of protest people despise most, I guess
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This is almost as gaslighting as Pres. Gay’s testimony. Nobody can take seriously Harvard’s commitment to free speech.
I'm so dismayed by Liz Magill's resignation and I so hope that Claudine Gay
@Harvard
will not follow. I fear too few of us have said what many of us think: She did nothing wrong, & the real failure of leadership would be surrendering to a campaign so hostile to our values. /1
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We are governed by seriously unserious people. I remember being five years old, and before buying a baseball card, thinking about what I could afford with my $5 allowance. (I know, privileged with my fancy chore allowance.)
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@MarkBegich
It’s a clear message that rank-choice voting introduces severe collection action problems that voters don’t yet know how to cope with. Not a clear message that they’re suddenly Democrats.
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For a genuinely realist account of all of USFP, see
@Copela1492
’s new book: The World Safe for Commerce. About the only realist left standing when it comes to the US case.
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@tylersyck
I guess, but that term doesn’t mean what they think it means. Irving Kristol, founder of US “neoconservatism” (a term thrust upon him though he didn’t object), advised US withdrawal from NATO. Other famous neocon, Jeane Kirkpatrick, made no bones abt disagreements w GW Bush FP.
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@ishapiro
I can only assume they quoted 1/100th of what Michael McConnell actually told the reporter.
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@karol
If that’s an Army Intel officer who’s still in - either active or reserve - she should have charges pressed under UCMJ for engaging in partisan activity in uniform. (And for desecrating the uniform with a jacket thrown over civilian clothes.) I can only hope it’s stolen valor
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@kearney_melissa
I mean, obviously.
Has lots of thoughts about how her lived experience “disproves” central tendencies reported in a book. A book she hasn’t read.
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@ElbridgeColby
JJM’s essay about his grade-school nun is telling for why he thinks it pays to be Godzilla — I think because he was Bambi and got picked on by kids in the playground.
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@JulianWaller
@AndrewFiggy
Sure, but the reason he has to paint almost all who disagree with him on the right as “right liberals” is to claim conservatism.
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The selective demands for evidence are so transparently antisemitic. Holding the Jewish state to a (much) higher standard than all others, giving the benefit of the doubt to anyone who is now Israeli, is just plain Jew hatred.
If you’re following along…
Briahna Joy Gray denies claims of women being raped on 10/7 despite extensive physical evidence, witness testimony, confessions, and other corroborating evidence.
But then spreads anonymously-sourced conspiracies with 0 actual evidence about secret
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Probably grossest non sequiter you’ll see today. What the actual hell does a West Bank settlement have to do with a pogrom in LA? The Left really does think an Israeli event can justify attacks on Jews in America — but don’t you dare call it antisemitic!
A reminder that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory violate the Fourth Geneva Convention. The UN Security Council has called the settlements "a flagrant violation under international law" that constitute a threat to peace in the region.
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Today’s Senate truly didn’t deserve a man as good as Ben Sasse. Go Gators
🐊University of Florida President Dr. Ben Sasse:
I have four simple messages.
First, to the Floridians who pay our bills: The University of Florida will always uphold speech and assembly rights, and we will also always follow the law. Too much of higher education has been
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@GabrielGlickman
Think Gavin also anticipated that Walt would call him a part of the Blob and respond via FP blog. Prescient.
@PatPorter76
and
@GabrielGlickman
showed how civil this review business can be.
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@SohrabAhmari
Bc the enemy was Hitler and it was world war, the arsenal of democracy sent $11.3b (in today’s dollars) to non-democratic USSR. So, today, the arsenal of democracy has sent a fraction of that to a decidedly more democratic UKR bc the stakes aren’t as high. So what’s the issue?
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@WCWohlforth
@KSchultz3580
@PatPorter76
Perhaps they've ceded too much on the US case. Look out for Dale Copeland's forthcoming _The Commerce of Power Politics: Am FP from Founding to the Rise of China_ for one SR's attempt to rescue realism from the US "anomaly." You'll have to judge if he's smuggling in dom-lvl vars.
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@ElbridgeColby
DRs must have been relatively less puny or something. That’s mostly a joke, but I do think underlining their different interpretations of what anarchy compels are at bottom normative and empirically unfalsifiable claims about whether it pays to be big or fly under the radar
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Thanks for reading and sharing
@Doctrine_Man
There's some great nuance here in this piece from
@LukeJSchumacher
. He's spot on about owning your opinions. Don't hide behind subtweets. I've also wondered if
@Martin_Dempsey
's account is actually a bot. Has it ever responded to anyone?
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Ah, yes, the peace party.
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Russia, I mean America, First!
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@ishapiro
Very surprising. Even before the ACLU had “lost its way,” it had a pretty consistent policy against taking 2A case. While this is a 1A case, I’m still impressed ACLU leadership had the courage to pursue this; I’m sure the rank-and-file protested. Well done, ACLU!
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@DavidPriess
Wonderwall.
And sometimes, just maybe, the word “mahy-bee” with inflection would do.
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