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American politics is regressing to the meme.
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But we have seldom taught history in the relevant way for decades. That would be history of statecraft, why wars are won or lost, what makes for effective diplomacy, etc. Instead we tend to approach politics from Kultur. Tocqueville said that is the tendency in democratic ages.
The academic job crisis in the history profession is bad for national security, argues this piece. Never seen it put exactly this way:
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Bibi to Schumer: Chuck You!
Breaking - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a military operation for Rafah in Southern Gaza, that will also include the evacuation of civilians, his office said on Friday.
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@NAChristakis
Recruiting for activism a sign that they take the life of the mind less seriously than they should?
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Is serial plagiarism serious? It depends upon the context?
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Given how few Jews were in the South, I bet if one runs the number there may have been more black slave owners than Jewish slave owners in the U.S. 1860
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@asymmetricinfo
There’s something deeply perverse about Muslims claiming to be a minority with more oppression points than Jews so that they can continue to assert their right to treat Jews as Dhimmis.
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@JakeAnbinder
History PhD was created upon the belief that a. History can be A, a “science” in the modern sense. And B. That that change is contributing to progress. No longer believing A, often embrace the latter goal as activists. Alternative is back to history as a just a humane study
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It takes a great deal of chutzpah for Muslims to say imperialism and conquest are immoral.
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@AGHamilton29
Most people in Gaza are 25 or younger. I fear that means most have been raised in Hamas schools. Will need de-Hamasification?
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@RichLowry
@ericmetaxas
A comedian making political editorials is telling others to stay in their lane?
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@NateSilver538
After others got out. Lost Iowa with everyone in. Party preferred him to Sanders.
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The “sensible” Left’s plan to end the war in Gaza is analogous to Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction. Leave the folks who organized the murder, rape, pillage etc in charge if the merely returned all the people they kidnapped in October
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@JoshKraushaar
Draconian would be conversation therapy by physical force. This is an abuse of language
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If the Court ends Chevron deference it means the U.S. has gone from the Frankfurter Court to the Hamburger Court.
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@ProfDBernstein
@Columbia
Assert right to walk through campus carrying an Israeli flag and see how peaceful this occupation is.
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@politicalelle
There’s one degree of separation between Jerusalem’s Islamic community and Hitler:
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The not teaching Shakespeare in Florida story, is, apparently, based upon a misunderstanding of the law. In other words . . .
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I hear trans activists are going to Times Square tonight to try to keep the ball from dropping.
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@TomCottonAR
@DYShor
Dual loyalty assumed? State Department doesn’t think the American hostages are really American?
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@JayCaruso
And a strong majority of Americans oppose affirmative action. A more democratic US would have ended it long ago
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@bhweingarten
@julie_kelly2
The jurisdiction is the entire country when national law is in play on federal land. If the attack was on the US government the location of each trial should be selected by a lottery of all the US.
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@Tyler_A_Harper
What’s the core? In my view the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on discrimination on one thing, and the DEI focus on disparate statistical representation as presumptive evidence of discrimination is quite another
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Just as customers rejected New Coke students are turning away from New Humanities. I’d like to see an experiment. Try English lit classes with 1950s style syllabi. See how students react.
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@julie_kelly2
What do our laws say about that? One had the right, even obligation to assist if one can as a doctor. But when may security, even on its own germs, trump that obligation?
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@JoshKraushaar
They never were with us. From Voltaire to Paine, to Marx and beyond Progress, according to intellectuals, has meant that Jews must stop being Jews.
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@samhaselby
At Harvard and Cornell Black students have protested that too many Black students as a percentage are African or Afro-Caribbean, as opposed to the traditional mainstream Black American, families here under Jim Crow and slavery
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@jaypgreene
@ishapiro
@maxeden99
@madisonfaith_m
@PENamerica
Do they include school libraries refusing to shelve Abigail Shrier’s book?
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At the Constitutional Convention South Carolina was voted most likely to secede!
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@kittypurrzog
This is precisely the problem. Our civil rights law is very uncomfortable with the reality that sex is a different kind of thing than race. Writing something on this just now.
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@UberFacts
He had reliable income for many years from his nailery. He had slaves trained to make nails, forced them to make them, sold the nails, and kept the money). But the income he had from that and other things never came close to covering his expenses.
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@mattyglesias
Since the promised closing the border after the 1986 deal never came, restrictionists will likely not trust any deal including an amnesty.
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@asymmetricinfo
Sure, but that’s different from suggesting current owners are guilty of an abuse for not moving, as your language implies
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@McCormackJohn
The journalistic line used to be “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
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@SpencerKlavan
The issue which makes this so difficult is civil rights law and civil rights enforcement. Treating a private individual as an eccentric is one thing. But if the government wants to force one to approve an ideology or philosophy, it's quite another.
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@DavidAFrench
on what charge? The espionage act? Mishandling docs, and perhaps obstruction one can understand more easily. Did he destroy any docs, a la Berger, and likely Clinton (given the erased server)? Did Comey address the erased docs/ wiped server in the bit you're quoting?
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@asymmetricinfo
Correctly? Starting premise is not privacy and private property but community use.
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@EdMorrissey
@varadmehta
And Pride Day ought to be September 20th, no? It cometh before the Fall . . .
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@asymmetricinfo
Also rising generation does not accept that there is politically neutral reporting. That’s reasonable. But then they give up on good faith efforts to recognize one’s own biases and to try to correct for them. And that’s a problem
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Fun with millennials. Ask them why diversity is good. Reaction is instructive. A. They take it as a matter of faith that it is. B. Confused that it might be a proposition to discuss and debate.
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Analyze a regime from the perspective of positivism and the result is meshuga
In what world did DEI ever have an “agreed-upon meaning?”
Are you kidding,
@DavidAFrench
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@PhillipsPOBrien
American foreign policy has featured that managerial attitude for quite some times
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They don’t like Jews, or Catholics, and think blacks and whites cannot compete on a level playing field, and should have separate dorms and graduation ceremonies. Hmmm
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@DamonLinker
Jefferson blamed the failure of the French Revolution on Napoleon, rather than admit that his hopes were utopian. We don’t like to question premises and deeply held beliefs about what’s possible in politics
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@SeanTNorton
My favorite story on this in history department was Harvard denying tenure to guy who won the Bancroft prize and Harvard’s teaching award.
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The Technocracy does not believe the common citizen is capable of reason. That's their job. Hence they believe good communication involves radical simplification and even false statements designed to motivate the stupid common citizen to do what they believe to be the right thing
March 29, 2021. Rochelle Walensky, Director of CDC, infamously declared on MSNBC: "Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick."
New emails obtained by FOIA from Jan 30, 2021 now show that Walensky knew this was a lie at the time she said it.
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Obama won reelection in 2012 not with a landslide like 1984, but with fewer votes than 2008, and that was by mobilizing his base and organizing to get them to polls. Hardly the definition of a unifier. His real talents were political organizing and power management
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Okay. Give the Temple Mount back to the Jews, also Hagia Sophia to the Christians. Might start relieving anger according to this theory
A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty.
A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid.
A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home.
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Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer
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The great White House cocaine mystery: Whose line is it anyway?
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@AviWoolf
This was John Adams' point from the start. And it's not just that an elite wants to rule. The problem is also that most of us would rather not be bothered with the work and responsibilities of being active and thoughtful citizens.
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@GadSaad
Worth remembering in this context that in the early 20th C much of the West thought Germany had the most advanced universities, science, technology, corporations etc.
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@RandyEBarnett
The conceit that whatever is the mainstream at elite law schools is the not Leftist because, by definition, the Leftist view cannot be the establishment view, is very powerful. Part of the self-understanding of many Progressives.
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@ProfDBernstein
There was an “America” on the map in the 1500s, therefore the people today called “Americans” are the sole rightful possessors of that land?
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@SashaGusevPosts
Parkinson’s work on bureaucracy as I recall it, would suggest administrative bloat causes more and more faculty administrative work. Seemed to be that way al Cal State, where I was for a long time
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If
@JohnFetterman
organizes nine other Democratic senators to oppose Schumer’s line on Israel the headline might be “Ten Buck Chuck!”
'Rebuking Schumer' by not committing to blowing up his government before its term is up? What other country do ppl speak this way about?
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@realchrisrufo
@BlueBoxDave
Failure/ obvious backfiring of many Great Society programs helped. Left is now blaming it on under funding, obscuring that history.
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@Joelmpetlin
@JasonBedrick
@Jack_Elbaum
As Orthodox Jews get a higher profile, non Orthodox Jews, used to being very comfortably the leaders of the American Jewish community, are, I fear, likely to react as establishments losing power often do
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@BillKristol
Could also backfire. If he seems forced out, might reinforce the idea that there’s a non-elected elite running the show outside of the democratic process
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@PhillipsPOBrien
Should one assume Putin says what he thinks, or that he says what he thinks will provoke the reaction he would like?
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The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. My thoughts:
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Other than that Mrs. Linked in, how do you like the play?
Let me explain what is actually going on with these hucksters, frauds, charlatans, and grifters on the right. They don't believe it. They hope you might believe it. They are nihilists who don't care about the outcome or consequences of their lies. Many of the same Swift/Kelce
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Dammit: the VP is supposed to be AN attack dog, she’s not supposed to attack dogs
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The moral theology of Lincoln's second Inaugural makes it just about impossible to make Lincoln a Progressive. We are and will always be sinners, and we will, often, be punished, in this world, for our sins. Some improvement, at times, but no fundamental transformation possible.
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Teaching Lincoln yesterday, hadn’t thought through the connection of his emphasis on the right and duty to work for one’s bread with Genesis 3 before. You work, I eat, (his definition of slavery) is an effort to escape God’s punishment of Adam.
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@wil_da_beast630
Ironic impact of Adams’ comments might be that the reality of good race relations in our regular daily lives will now be noted in a way that has been lacking lately?
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@EdMorrissey
Would like to see a reporter ask "Mr. President: putting aside politics, what do you, as a Catholic in good standing, think of abortion? Do you disagree with Church teaching?"
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@baseballcrank
From the 1830s the Democratic party was the part of white supremacy. Any coincidence that they now embrace "woke" racial consciousness in their Americanism?
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@mtracey
This post it a, um, strip tease?
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When Public Health experts fail to consider all the relevant variables. Looking for the car keys where the light is is a common story in public policy. We are irrational in predictable ways
remote instruction was a primary driver of the widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty during COVID. Math gaps did not widen in areas that remained in person (although reading gaps did).
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Hard to have a Clay when the central element of his political world is missing: Congress as the center of our government. And his mentor Madison knew that was unlikely to. E the case if federal power expanded greatly.
"Few figures in American history have had as distinguished a political career as Henry Clay," writes
@tylersyck
in Henry Clay and the Problem of Politics.
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@ProfDBernstein
The conceit is that “the establishment” is “conservative.” That Harvard is run by and for rich Progressives is unthinkable. That’s part of where the blind spot comes from, I suspect
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Forrest McDonald took the term “history buff” much too literally.
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