I'm sure it sucks for people in France who love blackface entertainment to find that is no longer an option, but it's probably a stretch to blame this on US college campuses rather than deeper issues in French society.
People have a bias towards using easily accessible information that supports their priors rather than reconsidering those priors. Like accusing an opera director that says he does not want to do blackface has "soaked up American culture" because he spent time in Canada.
Simpler explanation. Macron is in political trouble & so is pivoting right before the election. The easiest way to do that is to punch left at college campuses, and their crazy ideas about race, for creating division. And lets start attacking individual scholars. Sound familiar?
France is an old country, with a colonial past, and historic ideas of Frenchness that does not neatly match up with its current population. These facts, along with a desire not to talk about them, is a more likely source of friction rather than "dangerous" US ideas.
(And based on my very limited experience of French academia, it tends to be pretty insular, resistant to stuff labeled as American, and already pre-disposed to critical theory without any help, merci).
Looks like Fox now just programming off Glenn Greenwald's twitter feed
Hard to move forward when much of one political party's worldview is based on groundless conspiracy theories.
Most Republicans believe Trump won the election, and half of Republicans believe that Antifa were responsible for he attack on the Capitol. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Twice as many Republicans believe the Q-Anon theory that Trump has been battling an imaginary cabal of child traffickers in the Democratic Party than believe that he encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol.
If you believe that "the way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away" it is hard to account for the fact that one American political party is now dominated by conspriacism. nytimes.com/2020/11/30/ups…
Fixing the UI system is a good goal but throwing $500M at states ignores two things:
*in many states, the system is deliberately broken
*without a new approach, this will simply be a subsidy for overpriced consulting firms that built the existing systems
The ideal solution is probably to federalize the UI distribution process rather than have 53 systems. Maybe that is not feasible. Wyden's bill does not go that far, but does envision a larger role for the federal government in building and overseeing state systems.
Other approaches?
*Make the money dependent on a Race to the Top style competition that provides a credible state commitment for the state to solve the problem.
*Fund civic tech nonprofits who will build better & cheaper UI systems than Deloitte
Ted Cruz will always and forever be the person the Capitol insurrectionists viewed as one of them as the tried to overturn an election
These are people with extreme beliefs who very much felt they were serving Trump and politicians like Cruz newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
“Stop the Steal” was the theme of Trump’s 2020 effort to overturn the election. But it came from 2016, when the Trump campaign was planning to protest its expected loss to Clinton, created by one of the dirtiest political operators in US politics.
This paper that presents and test the concept of administrative burden tolerance is now in print @JPART1991 (and still open access!) which is as good a reason as any to test it.
Like a lot of scholars I have long since gotten out of the habit of reading the latest issue journals, but the new one of @JPART1991 has some really exceptional papers, many of which are open access. academic.oup.com/jpart/issue/31…
Excited to read this paper on the intersection of gender and organizational environment by @raugpott & @craigvolden. Shows that women are more successful as policy entrepreneurs in bureaucracies when there is a supportive climate. academic.oup.com/jpart/article-…