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I will add one last thought. Many of the responses from Democratic lawmakers and liberal commentators (even the good ones) contain some ambivalence - some hope that perhaps the fall of the Iranian regime, even at the hands of Donald Trump, will be for the best. I understand why. I am the son of an Iranian immigrant. Ultimately I want freedom, democracy, and dignity for the Iranian people. The problem is that I've seen the American government promise all of those things a hundred times, and I've never seen them deliver it once.

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Even progressive liberals deserve to honor the mystical conservative warrior inside! 🫡

Mystical conservative dharma warriors

May your Chiangs be unleashed, your Gabbards be unscabbarded, and your Johns be unfettered, man

Transforming Federal Foreign Language Programs to Serve U.S. Interests Title VI of the Higher Education Act creates academic and fellowship programs to serve American interests by funding the study of foreign languages and cultures, including for international commerce. ...

Searching for “title vi and foreign policy” I pulled up the heritage foundation’s blueprint for dismantling title vi… which Trump II did last year 😵‍💫 www.heritage.org/education/re...

Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more

From the late nineties, mostly on E Asian Area Studies read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2...

Edy no. Bad edy.

Starting in 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities will only fund research on "Western civilization"

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

What is the current ratio of self-help books to “organize your workplace” books?

Claude write me some bait

It’s plagiarism but it’s also parasitism — it has to end up killing the host. It reminds me of c suite execs who “use” it to reduce employees below them on the corporate ladder and entry-level positions… well… who’s going to learn how to be the next c suite exec if you cut down the ladder?

What’s best on what if any one thing motivates antitrans reporting and activism? Where were they radicalized? And why now, more than ever?

If the Buddha says “garsh” kill him

a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it ALT: a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it

The “prophetic tradition” turns out to be observing stuff and making inferences

Vote Bloom no matter whom. _Leopold_ Bloom. Potato. — James Joyce’s Ulysses

For every non-Epstein-friend authored opinion, you must read one Epstein-friend-authored opinion. Every GOOD argument needs to be balanced by a TERRIBLE argument. I am very smart

American civil religion - Wikipedia

As for “civic” or “civil religion” I’m sure there’s been tons since bellah and wonder what might be cooking for the 250th July 4 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

There’s even a patient close reading of W rhetoric. So a student could piece together an analysis of the situation you refer to from these elements.

I’m grading a bunch of exams right now on Bruce Lincoln’s _Holy Terrors_ (2003) and I think it’s a nice religious studies 101 intro to concepts like hegemony, legitimization, status quo religiousity, how to analyze a religion-inflected takeover in terms of varied forms of partisan politics

Quick glance yesterday and I was under the impression that it was being trained on the crowd sourced translation of ctext materials

Winnie Sullivan and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd on law, religious freedom

Idk if religious studies has the best tool kit for ideological analysis of what is sometimes called “radical centrism”: what we’re better at is connecting domains of thought, practice, group, institution.

(On the IR —> blob side, not the elections/constitution worship on the US side)

American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the diverge...

Not a rlst analysis but a helpful one www.versobooks.com/products/10-...

Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests the US employs 6700 political scientists to 4300 religion scholars. They would win in a land war

Only tomorrows for a limited time only (one thousand years)

What are some good summaries/critiques/analyses of “political science ways of knowing”? What does it mean to “do interdisciplinarity” _as_ a political scientist?

hold on gotta mail a thousand copies of college max weber to the apocalyptic branch of the US military to remind them that Christian Nationalism is actually Ben Franklin saying a penny saved is a penny earned m

What would it be like to live as if there were only tomorrows?

C-suite bros and political scientists admitting that their jobs could be mostly replaced with LLMs seem to be making a strong case that _their_ jobs could be mostly replaced with LLMs.