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Teaching political theory at @NUSingapore. Studying supremacy. France watcher.
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Making Polybian cycle great again

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Meanwhile in France, allegations of rampant drug use by French MPs led a journalist to test them for drugs, on the spot, in the National Assembly.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

An idea for making APSA useful: members vote for 3 studies published in that year that they'd like to see replicated, and APSA uses its money to fund these replications. Would help fill the replication gap and improve our confidence in the stories we tell about politics.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

One step closer to Nozick's experience machine

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The levels of evil in this story is just staggering. Living under one's own dictator in NK's conditions is crushing, being sent to die for the glory of some other dictator is unfathomable. Senseless death everywhere.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I find notable about French politics, compared to the US, is how often corruption comes to the surface. Perhaps France is more corrupt, or their justice system identifies it more ably, or that US laws are lax enough to permit what other countries would not tolerate.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

This paper is instructive on so many levels www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats would rather lose elections than modify the fundamentals of the capitalist economy (redux)

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It's startling to watch, in real time, a concerted media effort in France and elsewhere to sell the public the idea that France is about to suffer a financial crisis if they do not support austerity. Macronists control the public media and billionaires the private, all trumpeting the same message.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

NYT publishes a complete falsehood that France's "borrowing costs [are] soaring". Conveniently, provides no actual data. The actual data shows no such thing: rates on 10 year bonds continue to be steady at 2.9%. Media attempting to fabricate a financial crisis that does not exist.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Austerity politicians and their lackeys in the media have been repeating the claim that France is going to be the next Greece if budget cuts are not made. An inconvenient fact is that interest rates on French bonds have not moved in 2 years.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

"Tesla’s board argued the enormous payment scheme was necessary to keep Musk involved in the company, an argument that the billionaire, already the world’s richest man, echoed." Perfectly Rawlsian!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking again about Kim Phillips-Fein's remarkable history Invisible Hands, which studies how American capital organized itself into a political force circa 1940-1990. We really need a sequel that tracks these developments into the 2020s.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I see too many blasé (or even celebratory!) takes on what is in essence an act of legal corruption that principally benefits a rich and powerful family, and which creates risks for others in the form of unpredictable downstream institutional or electoral effects.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone had success in increasing the % of students who read the assigned readings by decreasing the quantity of reading assigned? It's an old idea but I can't find any studies on whether it works.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Ideal grading music

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The French prime minister using the specter of a creditor revolt to hammer through an austerity budget. Don't even need neoliberal ideology anymore, just leverage the fear of rising interest rates.

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