I was just reading a Twitter thread on “pre-docs”: people who go to work for a professor as a research assistant after college for a couple of years before applying to graduate school. This has become quite common. It’s a great way for professors to get good RA’s and students to get experience useful in […]
The South used to famously have separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites. I was wondering whether liberals might take us back to something like that. In my town, Bloomington, university people tend to fear and despise “county people” (“Trump voters”, “Wal-Mart shoppers”) . With covid-19, their fear includes fear of infection from diseased, maskless, […]
Which has caused more harm so far, the virus or people’s reactions? For the US, it looks comparable. unless I’ve missed some zeroes somewhere: 130K deaths, median age 80, $4M/death = $540B. .25Y lockdown, 10% GDP loss, GDP $20T/Y = $500B. This is just for the simple question of “So far, for the USA, what […]
Is this the best of the Hitchwalk videos? It would be nice to have one with the rabble’s chants incorporated too. “HitchWalk! Peter Hitchens Ignores Oxford Student Rabble” https://buff.ly/2Cov3mc
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Harper’s just published on July 7 “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”. It has plenty of cheap slanderous attacks on the right, accusing Ameria of “racial and social justice” and coming to a “needed reckoning” and calling Donald Trump “a true threat to democracy” and alluding to “right-wing demagogues” who are “exploiting” the well-meaning […]
(This is part of the split-up post, Should Rapists Edit Scholarly Journals?) But maybe it’s everywhere. I’ve always had contempt for appellate judges as a class because of how they betray the Constitution without the slightest qualm (there are big individual exceptions, of course) but trial judges might be even worse. My wife tells me […]
This is part of the split-up post, Should Rapists Edit Scholarly Journals? Pennsylvania allows the public to see court dockets for free– good for Pennsylvania!— though I wonder if a lot of entries fell off with updating to the web or weren’t written down in the first place, and the entries aren’t labelled in any […]
This is part of the split-up post, Should Rapists Edit Scholarly Journals? Harald Uhlig is another technical macroeconomist editing a major journal. I won’t go into his case at length here; see my Harald Uhlig Fired as Editor of the Journal of Political Economy. It is clear, though, that there are a lot of people, […]
This is part of the split-up post, Should Rapists Edit Scholarly Journals? So we have a sodomy child rapist as a professor in Sweden and joint managing editor of a top journal, the Review of Economic Studies (the “Review of Economic Studs”, as we’d joke about in graduate school— not to be confused with the […]