#Political

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

MERITOCRACY IN THE NEWS @David_Goodhart and Michael Sandel have both written provocative new books about the trouble with 'meritocracy'. Both argue that non-graduates have been undervalued and that graduates in

Ayush Ranjan

maaf_kijiyega

The issue is no longer of good or bad. It has become a question of survival. People have just had enough spoon feeding of the same Utopian concept of secularism

Jay Caruso

JayCaruso

Allow me to offer up a thread on why this is not voter suppression as Tom, Claire McCaskill and others have alleged. I lived in Georgia for five years, and

Richard Warnica

richardwarnica

The issue with opening bars it isn't totally about bars. It's about the broad message. Most people aren't listening to daily press conferences. They aren't parsing guidance that varies by

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

This Guardian extract from Robin Bunce and Samara Linton's biography of Diane Abbott reports uncertainty among local Labour activists, and in parliament, about the public reception of a black woman

geoffrey gertz

geoffreygertz

New publication! In @RIPEJournal, @jonasbunte, Alexa Zeitz (@Concordia) and I analyze the faltering global export credit regime. A thread with some key findings 1/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2021.1916776 For decade

Wolf Tivy

wolftivy

There's a lot of chatter about the meaning crisis, which goes by many names. People say things like "we need a new vision for society" or "we need a substantive

Derek Wessman

dwvcd

Nikkei explained nicely on today’s front page how Suga became the sudden favorite to lead the LDP and become Prime Minister post-Abe. I’ll summarize below for those who are interested.This

john milbank

johnmilbank3

Where to begin? Perhaps only in England does one still find intellectuals holding to the Victorian agnostic belief that ‘Christianity destroyed classical civilisation’. Over 100 years of scholarship has showed

Joe Parkinson

JoeWSJ

Young Nigerians Came to Protest Police Brutality. Then the Shooting Started.Here’s our @WSJ reconstruction of the military attack on #EndSARS protesters on Lekki Toll Gate on Tuesday: what we know,

Zoé

ztsamudzi

I love how all of a sudden we don’t understand that something being legal doesn’t mean that it isn’t unjust. Raising rent when salaries are not increasing proportionally is legal,

Sarah Mojarad

Sarah_Mojarad

Two reasons why they has thousands of followers and you don’t:UniquenessConsistent contentYou are unique and have valuable perspective to offer. Once you tap into that, you’ll become more confident and

Yurij Rudensky

yurijrudensky

Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that the independent redistricting citizen ballot initiative is constitutional. One of the issues at play: the legality of ending prison gerrymandering. The Court got it

Alain Stephens

AlainStephens

1/ No one out here is talking about the tactical failures of cops. Like, some of this shit, is tactically stupid. Its not only that police are acting a soldiers,

Steven Fielding

PolProfSteve

So education has replaced class as the new divide; but one thing remains constant: the Conservatives usually know how to win votes while Labour struggles. Thursday was just confirmation of

Social Finance, David Hirshleifer

4misceldah

1/ In a recent series of papers, I argue that many important behaviors are shaped by neglect of selection bias in social observation. HT to @Ben_Golub for a fascinating thread