#Institutions

NEW: Chicago Teachers Union just voted to refuse to show up to work tomorrow. 71% of the teachers unions members who voted approved the refusal to return to workhttps://chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/education/2021/1/24/22247280/chicago-
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THREADYou may remember, in the ancient days of 2018, the entire Dem-media industrial complex assured us that, if Brett Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court, he would empower an imperial presidency.Today’s
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Things you do not know about Ile-Ife. A Thread RT. 1. Ile-Ife, also called Ife or Ife-Lodun, town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. The town lies at the intersection of
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it's challenging to make principled arguments about what kind of behavior should constitute a fireable offense when you're discussing an industry where gaining five pounds or experiencing the passage of
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Don't want to repeat myself, but this continuing allegiance to Trump signals the GOP is getting more and more fascist. Not meant as hyperbole or a swear word but as
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Seth Klarman in 1991: "I traded my first stock when I was 10.""We set out at the beginning to be somewhat unconventional, with our clients acting as board members and
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Perhaps obvious, but it strikes me that dollowers (dollar-weighted followers) are an important part of the future.Platforms like Substack, Patreon, Ghost, Locals allow writers to optimize their dollowers. Dollowing is
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1) Philosophical. If you like authority, centralized "everything", trust politicians and bankers, don't read it. Probably will fit more to crypto and any "decentralized" like minded ppl. Some quotes, I
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6Jan US insurrection:Democracies need the social sciences & humanities more than ever.We need political science, sociology, anthropology, history, phil, ethics.We need better media, smarter journalists, social media literacy.We need ant
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"Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other
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Unit Director and @UKandEU Senior Fellow Meg Russell is speaking this morning at the @ipsa_aisp #ipsadisrupt conference. The UK is famously a parliamentary democracy, but by late 2019 parliament was
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A reason many of us take sides with political parties is that we define our identities based on favored parties and institutions (so all politics is identity politics)We also believe
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Giving assistant professors an extra year on tenure clock in recognition of covid-19 related disruptions to research is well meaning, but it comes at a cost for APs: another year
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Bernie trending is a good time to remind people that saying he would have, or at the very least could have, won is not "relitigating the primary," or looking back
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One of the points of confusion around prisons I think is that the prison system is absolutely white supremacist, and its rank and file operators (cops and guards) often openly
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Hi All, apologies for disappearing yesterday. This has been a busier week than originally planned.Thankfully it is now the weekend and I have done my customary Saturday chores and long
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