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David H Feldman

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I write about the economics of higher education and international trade. Love New Mexico & cats. My books: https://academic.oup.com/book/7559 https://academic.oup.com/book/5108 Social media posts are my own views and do not reflect my employer.

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Sounds like he does not want to be thrown under the bus, so he invites a criminal investigation and trial once a Democrat is in charge of the White House.

04.12.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check Out Bill Watterson’s Old Collegian Cartoons Before he was the best-selling author of the Calvin and HobbesΒ series, Bill Watterson was a student at Kenyon and a cartoonist for the Collegian. We just stumbled upon this awesome slideshowΒ of his…

2/ A skinny dude showed up and said he could take over the role. He had done a few cartoons before, and we were like, "well, okay, give it a shot! You've got big shoes to fill."

That kid was Bill Watterson, of course.

thekenyonthrill.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/c...

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I remember a day in 1980 that we on the staff of the Kenyon Collegian sat around the table pondering how we could possibly replace our wonderful cartoonist Jim Borgman, who had just graduated and gone on to start at the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he won a Pulitzer before starting the Zits comic.

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Hey, if you light it on fire on January 1st, you have Zozobra part II. πŸ˜‰

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And AI is disrupting (in a bad way) our ability to teach that all-important package of skills ... deep reading, coming up with a cogent question, researching the question in primary sources, storyboarding a response, and crafting the sentences and paragraphs efficiently to make a persuasive case.

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It's no wonder Noah is using Dr. Strangelove as his avatar image ...

03.12.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The administration is openly racist. All of those sycophants clapping for him are the garbage.

Every Republican elected official is complicit.

And this represents how well over 100m of my fellow Americans think.

We are a truly sick society.

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Which is why states need to continue delinking from the CDC. They need to issue their own medical guidance to physicians and to insurance companies, even if that conflicts with the CDC and its recommendations.

The wave of the future may be things like the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

03.12.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

fuller adoption seems to be the human ego, and the human predilection to prize anecdotal reasoning over statistical evidence.

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Opinion | The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

This evidence is striking, but not unexpected. Driverless vehicles follow rules. They never get distracted. They have 360 degree vision at all times. Programming errors are possible, and correctable. Current systems produce far better results overall than human drivers. The primary barrier to

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But, top brass in the military now know that they will be thrown under the bus by the administration. The incentives now are clear. Obey an illegal order and possibly lose your freedom, your respect, and your future life. Disobey an illegal order, and you merely lose your stripes.

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Throwing admiral Bradley under the bus is the Trump MO. I can't say I feel sorry for Bradley and I hope to see him charged in the future.

Now the incentives are very clear to our military brass. Follow an illegal order and your life could be over. Disobey and you only lose your stripes.

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Another reason I made beef instead. It doesn’t last as long. πŸ˜…

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Richmond Association for Business Economics - Events

I'm speaking to the Richmond Association for Business Economics on Friday, December 12th, at the Richmond Fed. My topic is the landscape of higher education in Virginia, and my own immodest proposal for a new financial framework for funding our four-year public universities.

More guests welcome!!

02.12.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

2/ "Indian School" adjacent to the Wren Building housing William & Mary.

We have a complex history.

www.wm.edu/sites/histor...

www.wm.edu/sites/enslav...

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The Brafferton, seen through the arch of the Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved.

The Brafferton, seen through the arch of the Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved.

Tucker Hall, with James Monroe out in front.

Tucker Hall, with James Monroe out in front.

Walking through a college campus at dusk is quite beautiful.

On the right, Tucker Hall with the statue of James Monroe out front. On the left, looking at The Brafferton through the arch of the Hearth, our new memorial to the enslaved.

The Brafferton, completed in 1723, was originally an ...

02.12.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I were seated next to her at a restaurant, I would insist on being moved to another table far far away.

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I wonder if some in the brass will have to restrain him from using them against Maduro ...

More seriously, I wonder if anyone at the Pentagon would actually have the gonads to risk his wrath by trying to dissuade him if he were inclined to use a nuclear weapon at some point

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Can Trump issue a preemptive pardon? Would that negate any domestic action against him or against those who followed orders?

Since we do not recognize the ICC we cannot extradite him to face international charges. But could we signal that if he ever traveled abroad that he was fair game?

01.12.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhahaa! Deadpan ain't my strongest suit. πŸ˜…

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Interesting. Ancient Rome had markets. Roman emperors complained that the price of grain seemed to rise wherever their armies marched. I don’t think Rome was a capitalist society in any modern sense of the term. Bankers in Nippur understood interest rates just as we do. Hardly a capitalist society.

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If you have over 1m followers, then there are no doubt thousands of them who use the medium as pure entertainment. That includes the trolling most of us despise.

Yet there is so much to learn here and so many good connections with colleagues.

01.12.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Professional medical societies need to fully delink from the CDC. States need to rely on their own health agencies to give out information and they must require insurers operating within their boundaries to follow their guidelines, even if those guidelines conflict with the CDC.

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I'm not sure I would use the label "normal" to describe people who would pour hard-earned money into these "investments."

01.12.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next we'll have this, I'm sure. In imitation of his buddy on the right.
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+...

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See the 2026 America the Beautiful national park passes Americans will get more free national park days next year, but it's going to cost foreign tourists much more to visit some of the most popular parks.

Fortunately, I have a lifetime oldster pass. If I had to buy one of these, I would scratch off the abomination of Trump's image. I suspect any park employee who saw the defaced pass would smile and wave me through.

www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

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No worries. It'll all be gone some time in 2029.

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And when ICE is abolished in 2029, I'm not sure I would hire them back into the federal prison system, except, possibly, as inmates ...

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Most Immigrants in the United States are Christians The overwhelming majority of immigrants (70%) are Christian, mirroring the overall immigration to European countries.

Here's a key fact. The majority of immigrants to the US are Christian. That suggests the real issue here is about race. Those who would challenge the "virtue" of empathy within the Christian tradition probably are racist to the core.

goodfaithmedia.org/most-immigra...

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3/ discounting, which means they soak their lower- and middle-income students. A student at VT who comes from a family making less than $110K will pay roughly 30K more at VT than at W&M. Perhaps this is an engineering premium, though over 40% of W&M's grads are STEM majors.

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