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@arctotherium42
Aug 20, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Academia, especially humanities academia where success has more to do with impressing your peers than the real world, has been practicing the non-electoral politics of institutional capture in the name of deranged New Leftism for generations now. Can't be fixed from within. Image
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Some of this comes down to the Civil Rights movement, which successfully imposed affirmative action and black/women's/etc studies on a resistant academia, creating a guaranteed race communist constituency that could then colonize other disciplines.
Blog-level readings: cspicenter.com/p/academic-fre…,
werkat.substack.com/p/why-is-acade…

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Employers hiring people and then training them in the specific skills they require has declined as a hiring model for decades, in favor of a hiring market where employers look for people who already have those skills. Image
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In the training/internal labor markets model, a company struggling to find specific skills will train promising entry-level employees. In the hiring market model, they can raise wages or otherwise improve conditions. In both, they can also substitute technology for labor. Image
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"Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (TR Fehrenbach, 1973/1995) thread of threads. Mesoamerican civilization was horrifying and very backwards by Old World standards, but unique.
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Excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995). The PRI had massively expanded higher education. These universities were entirely 'free'/self-governing and became locuses of left-wing organizing. Image
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Thread with excerpts from the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR) section of TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995). Calles created the PNR in 1929 to institutionalize the govt and Revolution, creating a Mexican party-state. Image
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