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So @JHUPress is having a summer sale where the code HHOL gets 40% off every book in the store. Let me humbly suggest one and then follow with some others. jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/why-they…
Assuming the code works for pre-orders, I had a chance to read College Made Whole by Chris Gallagher in galley and it is perfect riposte to those who think education should be "unbundled." jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/college-…
It's still a ways off (pre-orders ship in Dec.) but I'm looking forward to @BryanAlexander's "Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education." (Take note of that use of the plural in the title. It's important.) jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/academia…
.@HankReichman's essays on "The Future of Academic Freedom" cuts through the culture war B.S. and makes some clear points about some of the structural problems of higher end and their impact on academic freedom for all stakeholders. jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/future-a…
"Generous Thinking" by @kfitz will literally make you rethink how you view the work of academia. It's an extended argument for an embrace of the values we associate with learning and free inquiry. jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/generous…
Can't do a list like this without @cnewf's "The Great Mistake" which I recommend at least once a week for those who want to better understand how we damaged our public higher education institutions. jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/great-mi…
Reminder, use the code HHOL for 40% on everything ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
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John Warner
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One of the reasons a certain faction of Republicans embrace the Trump presidency despite knowing his manifest unfitness and corruption (and saying as much before the election) is their belief they can manipulate him into doing their bidding, like a war with Iran in this case.
Lindsey Graham cozies up to Trump because he knows that Trump knows nothing, trusts only his "friends" (meaning loyalists) and has no knowledge of history or political compass by which to make decisions. So...he works him like this, in public, on his favorite medium.
We have a government without a chief executive who can make informed decisions who nonetheless holds all the power of a chief executive and is easily manipulated by anyone in his orbit be it a foreign dictator or a warmongering U.S. Senator. Incredibly dangerous times.
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John Warner
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Speaking about the debate on reparations, @LindseyGrahamSC said this, "“I think it’s too remote in time. I think it’s too divisive." I don't think the harm of slavery and Jim Crow and segregation tis all that remote. 1/2 thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Consider the education of @LindseyGrahamSC's home state as exposed by a @postandcourier series as "minimally adequate" and systematically biased against black students. This is a direct legacy of slavery and Jim Crow segregation and it's happening today. postandcourier.com/news/minimally…
The reality is that @LindseyGrahamSC's state would benefit from a policy of reparations, but he only represents the portion of the electorate that wants him superglued to President Trump.
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John Warner
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I spend a lot of my day job hours thinking about numerical data and am increasingly fascinated about the inferences we can draw from even single charts. Ex: Based on these ratings, is this a good book?
We could say that we can't tell because N=17 isn't a large sample, though I'm betting that in Amazon's data how a book looks after 15 responses isn't likely all that different than after 100.
The two most common answers are 5 stars and 1 star. This suggests at the least that if you read the book you won't be indifferent about it. There's a good chance you'll be moved to give the book 5 stars, but there's a non-trivial chance that the book will be truly terrible.
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In the spirit of my thread yesterday on sources about anarchism and the state, here are sources on energy, ecology, carbon, throughput, and so on.
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D'alisa on Degrowth
Malm on Fossil Capital
Abramsky on Energy
Sovacool on Nuclear

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