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P-Sets in Philosophy

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/08/13/p-sets-in-philosophy/
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Tue, 13/08/2024 - 23:58
Earlier this week, I received my contributor copy of The Art of Teaching Philosophy: Reflective Values and Concrete Practices, edited by Brynn Welch.[1] It’s an exciting book, and I’m proud to have gotten to contribute to it. My chapter on advising graduate students about teaching was coauthored with an excellent teacher (and researcher), a near-former […]

“Where California Goes, There Goes the Nation”

https://tomdispatch.com/where-california-goes-there-goes-the-nation/
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Tue, 13/08/2024 - 23:31

California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to be taking climate change seriously, at least when he’s in front of a microphone and flashing cameras. His talk then is direct and tough. He repeatedly points out that the planet is in danger and appears ready to act. He’s been called a “climate-change crusader” and a leader of America’s clean energy revolution. “[California is] meeting the moment head-on as the hots get hotter, the dries get drier, the wets get wetter, simultaneous droughts and rain bombs,” Newsom typically asserted in April 2024 during an event at Central Valley Farm, which is powered by solar panels and batteries. “We have to address these issues with a ferocity that is required of us.” These are... Read more

Harris Snatches Back The Youth Vote

https://digbysblog.net/2024/08/13/harris-snatches-back-the-youth-vote/
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Tue, 13/08/2024 - 23:00
She’s more culturally aligned The Daily Blast podcast with Greg Sargent introduces findings by the Harvard Youth Poll’s John Della Volpe: An important new poll of young voters finds that Harris’ entry has dramatically shifted their preferences in her favor and against Trump. Which confirms a larger story: The Democratic-leaning constituencies who had drifted toward Trump now may be swinging to Harris, exposing a weakness in his previous support. A new survey conducted for Won’t PAC Down in battleground states (AZ, GA, MI, NC, NH, NC, PA, WI) finds 18-29 year-old registered voters (that’s important; more later) favoring Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by 51-42, a 13-point shift from a previous poll showing support for Trump. The poll was conducted before the announcement of Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as Democrats’ vice-presidential pick and the high-energy rallies that followed. Della Volpe believes approval for Harris needs a margin somewhere in the mid-50s, as it was in the 2020 election among this cohort. A 20-point margin here in the battleground states helped bring Joe Biden victory in 2020.

When Britain’s Trade Unions Fought Fascism

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/when-britains-trade-unions-fought-fascism/
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Tue, 13/08/2024 - 22:19

‘It is absolutely clear that the ability of the labour movement to defend existing rights and gains for the working population, let alone advance towards greater democracy and workers control of industry and society, is menaced by fascism, racialism and racialists. To remove that danger is a crucial task for socialists and trade unionists in […]

Classic New York City Movies If They Took Place in Eric Adams’s New York

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/classic-new-york-city-movies-if-they-took-p…
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Tue, 13/08/2024 - 22:00

“As the budget process progressed, updated revenue projections showed that many of the cuts weren’t needed. Both fiscally conservative and liberal good government groups and the Independent Budget Office said City Hall’s revenue projections were inaccurate. But the mayor ordered agencies to slash their budgets anyway.” — New York Times

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When Harry Met Sally

Harry and Sally are neurotic New Yorkers looking for love in the Big Apple. When the former college classmates bump into each other at a bookstore, they promise to get coffee and catch up soon. But thanks to the administration’s refusal to put caps on market rent, Sally has been pushed to the outer edges of Brooklyn, while Harry lives in the deepest reaches of Queens. They never see each other again.

How empirical is ’empirical’ macroeconomics?

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2024/08/13/how-empirical-is-empirical-macroecon…
Created
Tue, 13/08/2024 - 17:10
At a first glance, DSGE models seem to imply total ignorance because representative agents (or representative groups of agents with limited heterogeneity) featuring objective utility functions populate the literature. At a second glance, however, it becomes obvious that “methodological individualism” prevails and even dominates. To understand this dominance one only has to once again note […]