"I don’t know about you, but I’ve found the writings of conventional international relations experts to be not very helpful in understanding what this whole crisis is about." My god, my god, my god.
https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1502082682292948999
Look, I don't want to dis social psychology even in its pop Brooksian form but "conventional international relations experts" are really helpful for understanding roots of Russia's behavior (and indeed some of the most criticized predicted something like this for a long time). 
Has anyone else noticed that centrists pundits (ranging from center right to center left) have shifted post-Trump from "we must listen to the experts" to "eggheads are often wrong, let me tell you what my gut is saying"
I was never a big fan of the pure "just listen to the science/experts" position because science is mediated by social practice & has to be implemented by institutions that are not themselves scientific. But now pendulum has swung to "ignore eggheads, what do they know?"
Tony Judt! Hard not to feel the loss at a moment like this.
https://twitter.com/pashulman/status/786568099642376196
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