I find this kind of thing strange. I actually agree that Trump is a threat to democracy in the US, but that's a political opinion I hold - it's not a "story" that can be presented accurately and objectively in straight news reporting. It belongs in an editorial. /1

https://twitter.com/DAcemogluMIT/status/1807151243439075469

The thing is, the mainstream, US media have been editorializing along those lines for years now, with seemingly little effect. If anything, they've simply damaged their own credibility because it's reached the point where they appear biased and motivated by self-interest. /2

A lot of people with impressive academic credentials are strangely ignorant about even the fundamentals of feminist thought (and liberal thought, if it comes to that). I see bizarre misconceptions all the time. /1 Admittedly, there are different schools of thought within feminist theory. But the general idea is to claim that women are fundamentally equal to men (e.g. cognitively, emotionally, morally), despite any appearances created by social arrangements. /1