sophieehill.bsky.social
PoliSci PhD student @ Harvard / 🇬🇧🏳️🌈 / Creator of MyLittleCrony.com
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Harvard grad students went on strike because the university refused to allow a grievance procedure for sexual harassment.
It turns out our then President Larry Bacow wrote his dissertation on... how unions make workplaces safer.
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Almost on par with the commentator saying (yet again) "Lauren James can do anything with a football!" as LJ blasts it into the stands (again)
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counterpoint: the Tring Museum is far superior, because it teaches us not just about natural history but also about the human condition (spending your family fortune on cassowary eggs)
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Congrats!
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It also elides the difference between personal attitudes and activist strategies (which are embedded in party / ngo structures).
Gay marriage is literally the most well-known progressive opinion victory... and was led by many activists who don't believe in marriage or nuclear families at all!
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Interesting to square this with the observation that Dem cultural dominance doesn't seem to help them as much as one might think.
Perhaps GOP dominates in celebrity "experts" (Trump, Dr Oz) who get taken more seriously by voters?
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the think tanks, they yearn for segmentation
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too busy to answer surveys!
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@luketryl.bsky.social so it's categories all the way down? 😅
more serious question: wouldn't a simple 2d model of ideology + political attention capture all the meaningful variation here?
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24 universities, 6 learned societies, and over 1,000 sixth form students participating so far!
www.levellingupstem.co.uk
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sitcom idea: a group of hapless Tory aides use Truman Show tactics to persuade their leader not to mention every insane tweet she read that week in PMQs
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Retired spies too! Well, just one really.
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(My niece was inspired to write a letter to her new MP after reading Alastair Campbell's book "Why Politics Matters" — hence why she wanted it in the photo!)
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I took my 8yo niece to watch in the gallery today and honestly i felt insane trying to explain what's going on 😅
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"We can protect our domestic industry by copying the strategy of our 2nd biggest export market"
💫 🧠
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Broadly sympathetic to this idea... but how do we square it with the centrality of spectacle in 20th C fascism (esp in mobilizing young people)? Separate "art/culture" from "spectacle" (how?)
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this wanton color coding has driven some Reddit users to the brink of madness*
*(a 55 comment thread debating whether "straightforward --> tricky" is the same as a difficulty scale)
www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnect...
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Uncharacteristically casual from Fox... looked like she gave up tracking back even before the shot!!
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Please enjoy cycling through some of his greatest hits.
Just make sure you don't miss this one — perhaps the single most revealing sentence Harvey Mansfield ever wrote:
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Please enjoy cycling through some of his greatest hits.
Just make sure you don't miss this one — perhaps the single most revealing sentence Harvey Mansfield ever wrote:
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For the uninitiated: mansfieldat90.com
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In fact, Linz argues, accountability and identifiability may be better in parliamentary systems.
Why?
🗳️ No fixed term, no reelection limits (accountability)
🔍 Shadow cabinet, candidates with clear political records tied to ideologically differentiated parties (identifiability)
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The Shaming of the Constitution
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The Shaming of the Constitution
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More like a beautiful wine-cheese pairing.
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"By contrast, the only presidential democracy with a long history of constitutional continuity is the United States.
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The burden of this essay is that the superior historical performance of parliamentary democracies is no accident"
- Juan Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, 1990
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