#Academic

Flora Rutaganira

Frutag33

I am responding to this with care after initial frustration. I fully agree with HGF fellows and friends that today is a day to celebrate the accomplishments of the new

El Sandifer, Rationality Expert to the Stars

ElSandifer

Here’s what any good overview of Scott Alexander is going to need to say.1) He emerged out of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s LessWrong community. This community consists almost entirely of hobbyists attempting

National Association of Scholars

NASorg

The Higher Education Act, which first passed Congress in 1965 and was reauthorized in 2008, sets the conditions universities must meet to receive federal student loans and grants. Unfortunately, the

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

Okay. Someone in your life has read White Fragility, and they accuse you of racism, white supremacy, white complicity, or white fragility itself. How do you respond? It's easy. "No,

Tom Le

profTLe

Typical #firstgen things - especially if you're the oldest and before the Internet1. Instead of your parents helping you with college apps (especially essays; you know what it is), you're

scott mitchell

djbuddha

I don’t disagree with the point that the cost is prohibitive. But there’s several things about this discourse that I feel like we need to interrogate. A thread. 1/https://twitter.com/neuroyogacara/status/1333793555228233733 First,

Sarah Bessey

sarahbessey

I am loving "Jesus & John Wayne" so I find myself really curious about how this brand of American evangelicalism impacted Canadians like myself. I didn't learn of most of

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖

kixes

COMPLICITY AND WHITE-WASHING IN #SINGAPORE, A THREAD1/ There are a number of PAP MPs who are very popular, and/or those who don't come from the more conventional PAP recruitment pools

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

THREAD: on reading methods papers. In a previous thread I indicated that in the same way that we need a repertoire of reading strategies, we also need to recognize the

Koloniale Provenienzen in Göttingen

KolonialeG

(1/2) Wie ist eigentlich die ethnologische Sammlung der Universität Göttingen entstanden? (English version below)1775 wurden nach der Gründung des Academischen Museums unter Johann Friedrich Blumenbach die ersten Objekte der ethnologisch

Evan Smith

evanishistory

Having written at length about the debates about free speech on campus in Britain (as well as elsewhere) and the history of 'no platforming' in particular, here's a few thoughts

Wolfgang Hutter

WolfgangHutter2

@Peter_Nimitz @rhizostigmata @KegzK @RogueScholarPr @GuiDurocher @Sorel_ebooks @HistorysE @theeternalright @real_thomas777 @RoiRoiDame A book thread on the historiography of Reconstruction in America. Please share if you find interesting. B

Yair Rosenberg

Yair_Rosenberg

Here's the essential lesson you can learn from this: For good or ill, Israel policy in America is—and has always been—set by the 98% of Americans who are not Jewish,

Emma Hilton

FondOfBeetles

What is absolutely remarkable about the brief is that it is an equally good argument for protecting sports for females. One could almost regurgitate it, replacing just a few words,

władysław willow

_diuturnum

We're always one EPA regulation (and a couple more decades of progress) away from unlocking a path to middle class prosperity for the low-income families. The problem is an anthropological

Isabelle Mateos y Lago

IMateosylago

1/ A thread on this thoughtful, bold and thought-provoking piece by ⁦@MartinSandbu⁩ about the meaning of pro-Europeanism and the essence of European identity. For me, the former came without thinking

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