#Elites

Jared Rubin

jaredcrubin

Excited we finally have a draft of this paper, which attempts to provide a 'unifying theory' of the long economic divergence between the Middle East & Western EuropeAs we see

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

Trump's veto of the GOP-backed defense and COVID relief bills seems at first to be a mere temper tantrum. It is that in part, but it's primary Trump's warning shot

Justin Sandefur

JustinSandefur

Can deliberative democracy overcome the resource curse?https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/deliberative-democracy-resource-curse-nationwide-experiment-tanzania.pdfWe finally have a paper based on Tanzania RCT with @nancymbirdsall, Jim

Ian Welsh

iwelsh

I very rarely get drunk, but I am tonight.In vino, veritas. my parents were alcoholics and made my childhood hell. So I don't, generally, speaking, endorse alcohol. that said, alcohol,

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

AWW It was the start of a beautiful friendship.If you see someone cool having a horrible time on the internet, reach out. It's a time when someone's whole world

John Hayward

Doc_0

Privileged elites always want to assert their status by indulging in pleasures denied to the lower classes. This often leads them into immoral, deranged, and even criminal behavior. They're desperate

mike tribe

miketribe66

What many people forget is “democracy” and “freedom” are generally delusions... if you don’t live in a totalitarian regime the ruling class have to find other means of controlling the

Ben Stanley

BDStanley

As someone less sceptical about the utility of populism as a concept, but who shares Art's misgivings about the empirical and normative consequences of its misuse, my take-home was "We

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

Iyervval

Thread 1n I think more than Rahul Gandhi - it is Ram Guhas & Kaushik Basus who’ve reduced the congress & the “Idea of India” to zero. They come from

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

I actually think many white liberals are way more afraid of other white people than they are afraid of Black people and people of color. So afraid that they don't

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

So Trump lost, but we're still talking about why so many people voted for him. And story seems to be that millions thought "We feel disrespected by liberal elites, who

☦️⚜️ VoC ⚜️☦️

VassalOfChrist

The Truman Show movie and The Americans TV show indicate that there is a precident of not just subversion, psyop, or espionage,but that these missions are undertaken at times not

A New Radical Centrism

a_centrism

[THREAD]1/ Some things needed to be said in 2016.Only Trump would say them.He could say them because he didn't seem to have the usual filters.But whatever this wonderful glitch is

Jazz'dUp

ZZZJazzy

From @SidneyPowell1 interview yesterday"We know that there were hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots imported into the country, likely from China. We have video of some coming across the border

Opportunities4Elites⭐️

oppsforelites

Dear Elites this needs to be said! (A THREAD)A popular saying goes “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." Winston

Joshua Benton

jbenton

It is impossible, I think, to blame the chaos on "the failure of citizens to conduct due diligence" without recognizing the degree to which the traditional tools of such "due

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