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PhD student, Harvard Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy https://marchvidkjaer.github.io/
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A view of the Harvard Kennedy School forum this morning

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This is aging all too well

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This is where I will be this afternoon. Stand with our international students. Stand with Harvard. The fight for their rights is about the rule of law in this country.

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Reading a chapter on how to spot fakers in markets (from 2022), citing research by…

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Kyiv School of Economics offering academic refuge for Harvard University students.

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"“Trump has a way of unifying people – Canadians, Australians, Harvard faculty, you name it,” says Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard."

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www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educatio...

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Real profiles in courage here. Donald Trump's administration is waging war, on numerous fronts, against America's core values of individual liberty, private enterprise, and openness.

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Regardless of methodological clan, this is interesting

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Two-level soft power? The state may lose some, but an institution may preserve it. The strength of liberal democracy?

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Hard to imagine a bigger self-inflicted wound. The envy of the world brought to ruin.

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This portends a dramatic reshaping of American government. Essentially an undoing of the modern bureaucratic state. Returning America to a pre-modern past.

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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The international students at Harvard contribute more to this country in one day than the low-life wannabe authoritarians in the Trump administration will in a lifetime.

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The collapse of the rule of law in America feels a bit like 1989 but in a bad way. A reference point for decades just gone in weeks

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"“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” according to a letter sent to the university by Kristi Noem" *all* Harvard internationals may be out now www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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Extracting billions (mostly in foreign money) from the presidency www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Exactly what the Founders feared and hoped to prevent.

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To the extent that Donald Trump is an existential threat to the American republic (he is), I think it's probably worth spending at least a little time interrogating how almost all the major figures in the Democratic Party thought it was more important to soothe a feeble old man's ego than win.

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1. this case was solved because of broad coverage, and shows the cost of a lack of self-regulation, 2. we may some times want to sacrifice accuracy for expediency, and discuss results as we check them I do not see that this case has shown downsides sharing early; quite the contrary

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Aristokratiske tider i DK. Interessant karakter.

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Okay this one is pretty hilarious. The US embassy apply with the Copenhagen municipality to renew their diplomatic license plates, but condition their own payment - for public services which, to stress the obvious, they critically need - on the municipality committing to anti-DEI. No dice.

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Very random that I spent my sunday afternoon watching this lecture, but it was very interesting throughout.

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Short updates on current events marchvidkjaer.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Extremely interesting study by @antongrau.bsky.social @chellersgaard.bsky.social & Anders Esmark. My favourite bit is that pol.sci. graduates + economics view their education as conferring ability to manage society, whereas lawyers see their specific degree as irrelevant - doi.org/10.1080/1356...

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This is the takeaway! +, without all this, we would have been robbed on the pleasure of saying that this was obvious all along and displaying our collective expertise in R&D dev in material sciences. Anybody could have spotted it - we just all waited a bit!

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