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My Chicago Tribune editor very gently nudged me to reconsider the copy I turned in this week that I considered a B- to B, good enough to run, but not my favorite work, and offered me a couple of fresh angles and more time. Now it's something I'm fully proud of.
This is the work of editing as much as anything, reminding the author to be accountable to themselves. The work was fine, perfectly acceptable, but she knew I could do better (having read me for like seven years), so she made the space and time for me to be better.
Immediately thinking about how to do this with student writing.
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John Warner
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Hmm...yes, it's all about "disliking" tech companies. I can't imagine a more disingenuous framing of the argument. slate.com/technology/201…
To be fair, Cowen does not explicitly talk about "dislike" as a reason behind the call to break up the companies, but overall the article shows what happens when you only have libertarian economics handy to look at the world. He argues that existing anti-trust law doesn't apply..
...but this is exactly the point critics have been making. We have new entities that were not anticipated by anti-trust laws from another era. To analyze the present entirely through that lens is a failure of critical thinking.
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John Warner
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This is a more explicit version of the subconscious bias Jeffrey Goldberg revealed vis a vis The Atlantic 10k word cover stories last week. Those at the top of the "meritocracy" cannot imagine merit that is at all different from themselves. insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/1…
Sure, you can be a distinguished scholar, but you really need to make sure you adhere to all those categories of so-called merit as those who came before you. What? No! Race isn't a factor. We don't see race. It's just a coincidence that almost everyone in the club is a white guy
"If you truly want other voices in your rooms, it’s simple: Let them in, and let them speak."
insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
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John Warner
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This is an extremely tired piece of writing, ostensibly doing a good faith critique of the meritocracy, but essentially attempting to rally the troops around propping up the edifice. A total waste of valuable space. h/t @JennBinis nytimes.com/2019/06/12/opi…
Here's all you need to know about the state of our existing "meritocracy." slate.com/news-and-polit…
There's an interesting tidbit about Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld doing ROTC in college, which is ostensibly unexpected from the daughter of two Yale law professors, but it's going to look great when she runs for President in 2044, presuming we still have a functioning democracy.
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