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Alan Levinovitz
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I am...um...slowly coming around to critiques of (much) scholarly writing in the humanities. The problem isn't that people can't understand it—as I've pointed out, physics is hard for laypeople—it's that
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Myopic focus on mortality and hospitalization rates downplays the harms of COVID-19. There are people who tough it out at home but can’t care for their children or do their
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This is a polemical article, in a partisan publication that, in nearly all cases, produces work antithetical to my own political leanings.Yet this article neatly captures my own concerns with
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There seems to be a misunderstanding among those who think "mathematical proof" of voter fraud needs to be investigated.If a conspiracy theorist has 200 pages of intricate mathematics proving that
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I spent most of my life thinking ppl who disagreed w/me were idiots or evildoers. That belief showed through in my writing & conversations.Result? I preached to the choir. And
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Hot take: Underappreciated reason some people voted Trump is the visceral appeal of contrarianism and being an “independent” thinker. Attraction to this broken way of thinking doesn’t follow traditional party
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photos from 2009 and 2011, respectivelyI'm 100% for pushing back on political interference with the Postal Service, but the ultra-processed information served up on Twitter is worth being careful about,
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As someone who likes to express myself, and who values hearing others express themselves, I have become scared to participate.Not because I might get canceled.I am scared of taking part
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"capitalism": n. a slur that stands in for specific features of an exchange system that result in disempowerment, oppression, or scarcity"socialism": n. a slur that stands in for specific features
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Collapse of trust in expertise is largely about our collective realization that experts—and their public—have vastly overestimated the power of quantification to solve everything from justice to happiness to the
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