Tenured Radical/Claire Potter shared a link.
My response to Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains, and the attacks on it, at Public Seminar:
"Exaggerating the role that race actually does play in MacLean’s analysis of Buchanan’s work is also a convenient distraction from the larger picture Democracy in Chains proposes: exposing the mostly backstage role that Buchanan played in taking libertarianism from the intellectual fringes to the academic mainstream. These stakes are potentially quite high."
"Jia’s suit is simply not civil rights litigation: it is a well-financed nuisance suit. In the years his case will take to wend its way to the Supreme Court, Jia will finish his degree at Duke and will go on to whatever brilliant career he is suited for; it will be increasingly difficult to show what better, alternative life Harvard might have offered him. It will also be difficult to prove that Asian quotas were in place at the time his application was being considered. If Ivy League schools have learned anything from the books that have already been written about their Jewish quotas, and the battle to admit women, it is probably to avoid writing memos that say things like: “Enough with the Asians already!”
My response to this week's news in US higher education @PublicSeminar: http://bit.ly/2fc7QI9
It’s not easy to defy the leadership of your own party. As I followed Collins and Murkowski this week, I thought about a little-known Democratic woman who, forty years ago this month, defied her President in an attempt to preserve women’s healthcare. Her name was Midge Costanza, and she worked for Jimmy Carter. http://bit.ly/2vgt3qg
"Forty-five years ago today, all the President’s men were nervously awaiting the fallout from a break-in at an office at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. where the Democratic National Committee had established its 1972 campaign headquarters.
Naughty, naughty."
http://www.publicseminar.org/…/…/when-white-houses-go-dark/…
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My take on @markhertsgaard's terrific piece in @thenation @ how Progressives win back an audience: http://bit.ly/2mIQoJz
Will the GOP cut cultural funding? Maybe a little, but not a lot. Here's why: http://bit.ly/2mTmrJL
In which Tenured Radical finds common ground w/ conservative @CalebHowe about @GOP healthcare legislation http://bit.ly/2moMNzO
If you get sick in Utah, don't call @RepChaffetz! Inspired by conservative ideas, TR is back and blogging: http://bit.ly/2lQrImB
Because it's no fun anymore, THAT'S WHY! https://t.co/8GX17FiGs7
Because calling people terrible names is....disgusting? SAD? Failing? https://t.co/Qg6Vwnng7y
LUVVY! https://t.co/JUGGpfzdUt
Fuck yeah. Made me a human being. https://t.co/IodDbVFpMV
Today in 1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting slavery https://t.co/sy0Lwq9E33
Today's free history lesson for PEOTUS: The US seizes other nation's military vessels all the time. For example:
https://t.co/ZrvPxmyE2A https://t.co/ZECY0xntFR
Worth thinking about: Scotland isn't a world power, but neither, it appears, is the United States a world power anymore. https://t.co/7LTBWTeP74
