#Legitimacy

Kevin Dorst

kevin_dorst

Finally got the chance to read @RobertTalisse's "Overdoing Democracy." It's a good book! Quick summary, and a couple thoughts:The cool political-philosophy move is the point that insofar as we need

Adithya Venkatesan

adadithya

Advertising is what you pay for, Public Relations is what you pray for - The age-old adage is in for a change.So, why does a VC firm want to create

SevenCrimes

Seven_Crimes

We're in the stage of empire where even the crackdown helps our side. There are a million different small ways to demonstrate the vulnerability of the current system. The hysteria

Eric Gordy

EricGordy

Dayton was designed to allow the people who profited from war to profit from peace. At that, it was phenomenally successful. This means that the people whose profit it insures

Cerina 🏄🏾‍♀️💖🇯🇲

Writing_To_Live

White spiritualists in the community automatically gain visibility as a byproduct of whiteness.It’s taken seriously when yt ppl do spiritual workBut it's considered mumbo jumbo/mythological when indigenous/black ppl do itThere's

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Why does Trump deny the legitimacy of the election? Partly (largely) it's about ego. But it's also about his politics. Populism relies on the idea that the majority is being

Mark Warner

MarkWarner

Folks: this is an unusual election. Our intelligence community has warned that the period immediately before and after Election Day is going to be uniquely volatile, and our adversaries will

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي

iyad_elbaghdadi

Time for another stream-of-consciousness thread that feels right now as random thoughts but I think will coalesce into something as I go on "If your cause is moral, and your

Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

Wamagaisa

1. They spent years & acres of space in state media lampooning Morgan Tsvangirai. But in death, they eulogise him. It is not because they have discovered respect for the

Rick Wayne

RickWayneWrites

Seems to me the FEC should audit ANY vote count within a certain narrow range -- say 2-3 pts. -- and that that should be a standing rule regardless of

Nicole Perlroth

nicoleperlroth

To every Republican demanding post-election recounts and more transparency: You do know there was a bill on this right? It died on @senatemajldr’s desk. The PAVE Act, which was sponsored

Jon Hillman

HillmanJE

Australia should scrap Victoria's Belt and Road MOU, which has failed by every measure.But that should not distract from the bigger challenge of building resilience to China's coercion.My piece for

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

The “let him have his legal process and then it will be over” crowd in the GOP isn’t going to win. We’re going to get the full spectacle of successive

Colin Mills

OxSoc

In 50 years time a PhD student writing about the decline of state capacity will use as a case study the inability of the state to collect every 10 years

John W. B. Rich (Wealthy)

richtechexec

GM partnering with Nikola is definitely a point for Nikola's credibility, but it shouldn't be taken as a sure sign that NKLA is legit. Walgreens and Safeway both had huge

Michelle Knight

mlizknight

I can’t get over Numbers 21 this morning (in part bc of a previous conversation with @MadisonPierce, but more recently because of a conversation we’ve had in my seminar). In

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