@samuelcohn.bsky.social
Founder and First President of the American Sociological Association Section on Development. State & Development, Gender & Development, Historical Sociology, Macrosociology, Gender Discrimination Author of All Societies Die: (Cornell University Press)
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I don't think anyone liberal or conservative, in the government or out of the government, knows what will happen as this war progresses.
Massive regime change victory for the US or defiant hostile region that refuses to be bombed into submission?
Idle chatter now likely to be wrong.
Not everything Trump does is covering up for Epstein.
Some of this is covering up for poor economic performance.
And some of this is an old man not feeling well when he gets up and feeling grouchy.
And some of this is Trump's eternal - what gets me a headline for the next news cycle?
If Hegseth puts nuclear weapons on automatic AI trigger ...
Especially since this administration likes to fire people ...
So Imagine that there were some vacancies in significant oversight positions.
Good news on the role of AI in doing serious scholarship.
I used Perplexity to test empirical claims I was making in a paper.
On two empirical issues, I was dead wrong.
The same night, I was able to revise the theory with a new model.
In one night, I made a month's worth of progress.
In Mexico, there was peace between the gangs and the population. The government had an explicit policy of live and let live.
Druglords sold drugs. They didn't hurt anybody.
Trump wants a macho headline for Fox News so he tells Mexico to kill a drug lord.
Now blood runs in the streets of Mexico.
Actually, the play was written by Melania.
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The Trumps have always found anything involving MORE very inspiring.
The point here is legitimate in general.
I don't think the 14 year olds were looking for professional opportunities.
The vulnerable 22 year olds often turned to Epstein for validation and support. They got something far worse.
The devastation was not only economic, but psychological.
The Washington Post cutting its international reportage has gutted a key source of international news.
Bloomberg (of Business Week fame) has stepped up to fill the gap.
They now have a massive network of international reporters covering every region.
And unlike Bezos they do not kowtow to Trump.
The right to bear arms was always limited to "good people" - with whites doing the defining of "good".
Armed African Americans were almost never "good".
Jennifer Carlson, a sociologist in U of Arizona has written extensively on the racial double standard for holding a gun.
That would seemingly be a hard story to substantiate if the ICE guy is not talking to the press.
The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces can use the budget assigned to the Military at will.
Civilian monies are allocated to particular departments and purposes. They are subject to much less discretionary use by the Executive Branch.
Could be relevant here.
Depends on what you want to say.
If the books are 2 peas in a pod,
You discuss the archetype 1st. Illustrate w/ specifics after.
If 1 is better than the other, you lay out what determines merit and then how 1 book has it.
If the books are different but good, 2 reviews in sequence.
I fully concur with your analysis here.
The critique of the historical ignorance of the press is right on target.
Presumption of legitimacy concerns fade in the face of
Widespread hacks who will write any trivial piece of whatever
So long as it makes deadline and gets clicked on.
Europe divides on everything.
They were divided long before Trump and they will be divided long after him.
This is intrinsic in a 27 vote ruling body where every single party has a veto.
That rework is already absolutely mandatory.
To say Trump is inconvenient is an understatement.
Europe will generate all sorts of coherent responses to the new system
If anything due to the superlative quality of European diplomatic forces.
But the rethink can't wait.
Fair enough.
These assets are not as important say as gas pipelines or access to Mediterranean oil.
Probably Europe's island interests are not going to be terribly affected by what Trump does in Venezuela even though V. is geographically proximate.
Your subtleties make complete sense in a world of Principled Diplomacy and International Norms.
Principled Diplomacy allows for Realpolitik responses to rogue actors.
Since the U.S. no longer follows diplomatic precedent,
Europe does not need to follow diplomatic rules in American relations.
The Europeans have very little strategic interest in Latin America as a whole
And in Venezuela in particular.
They will make media statements because they have to.
But realistically, this is of little consequence to them.
Tariffs and the Ukraine war are bigger game.
How much of what you wrote or taught was poop?
If what you did was better than that ...
Then enjoy looking back in the golden sunlight
Of all the wonderful things you did.
A smarter strategy than that taken by some other unpopular world leaders.
All things good or bad come to an end.
Doesn't matter what name you give it.
We know what happened.
We know whether we think this was good or bad.
Internecine fights with the media are entertainment for latte drinkers.
They drain energy from more useful forms of resistance.
Heads out of our a****s and eyes towards the actual enemy.
Realistically, neither of them probably have any idea.
There are no boots on the ground monitoring civilian conditions
and little interest in getting an accurate count on that.
So when they say they don't know,
They really don't know.
Harvard created this. It spent over a century positioning itself as THE TOP of American academia and THE VOICE of science, social science, and humanistic thought.
Other academics knew it wasn't true.
But the public bought it.
This is why so many public officials came from Harvard.
Honestly, the Harvard newspaper ought to run a piece on all of the NYT’s coverage and what they distort and why.
THAT I would read.
MAGA authoritarianism can not be maintained indefinitely.
But it could last 20 or 30 years.
Huntingdon's book the Third Wave shows compellingly that authoritarian regimes generally last this long.
Franco and Russia went longer but they were exceptions.
This will not go away in 2028.
Groan.
An antifa who actually does something legitimately bad.
No one, left or right, needed or wanted this.
Picking majors and minors is not the same as choosing a quest for your life.
Pick the work you want to do.
The road to that will combine coursework, independent reading - often online - and getting experience.
The major serves the life purpose. The major does nothing without a life purpose.