#INFLUENCE

I had a long talk with my Intro to IR students about Russia.Was it because of current events? Partially. But it was mostly because, when it comes to studying international
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Hi @RonDeSantisFL I’m super unimpressed with the flyer sent home with school students today from the Florida Dept of Health encouraging Thanksgiving meals with only ppl you live with &
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Ugh, #tiktok is back in the news and the reporting is confused and confusing. Time for a little interpreting of the recent reporting that the TikTok forced sale is "on
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The influence of my native town on my character is profound. The sleepy little town of Palakkad (Palghat) in Kerala is extremely laid back. No one seemed to be in
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This story showcases the extent to which far-left morality politics can overlap with political moral policing used on the right. In this case, there are broad brush insinuations of gay
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Interesting: a decade after the Reform Act, a petition from Woodstock complaining that the Duke of Marlborough still had undue influence over the seat. Wonder how common petitions like this
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Since the protective divide separating Muslims from polytheists was degraded and finally collapsed entirely, conflicts between Muslims have been increasingly defined by the social divides between the kuffar, as we
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I see the "RB's don't matter" argument a lot. Maybe I've been spoiled by Melvin Gordon + Jonathan Taylor but I've never 100% bought in. This argument implies that your
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Quotes on Luka Modric.A thread. Sir Alex Ferguson (2012)"Scholes and Modric are both intelligent footballers. They both influence their teams as well so it is a reasonable comparison." "I don't
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1/3 Since Adolf Hilter is trending let's take a moment and do a real comparison. Find out which world goverment most closely parallels #Nazi #Germany #3rdReich Many #American only look
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Biden campaign to @NBCNews:"After weeks of refusing to tell the American people whether he is party to a foreign influence operation, Sen. Ron Johnson and his staff just exposed their
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From the annals of Soviet decision-making on Afghanistan, 1979. Many people know that the Soviets were in fact remarkably reluctant to intervene in Afghanistan. We had long known that they
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1. I look forward to 2021 with optimism. Not because of Brexit. That will be an unmitigated disaster. Not because of any faith in this shower of a govt to
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1) Looks like Charlie Kirk is speaking to my area of expertise, citing Plato's influence on Rousseau. I happen to have written a book on this very subject, Rousseau's Platonic
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Will we eventually accept as a nation that, for our own survival as a people with a steadfast founding value of personal freedom (never fully realized, yet) we must be
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In advance of today’s antitrust hearing, some thoughts about antitrust and free speech, with links to some papers that shed light on the relationship between the two. (1/x) It’s not
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