Daniel Kuehn
@dkuehn
Research on apprenticeship, workforce development, and history of economics
I think Megan’s right that we have to grapple with public opinion as it actually exists and we need to hunt for truth, but that doesn’t mean we have to pretend public opinion on academia isn’t BS promoted by the White House and the Manhattan Institute. Hunting for truth requires being realistic.
Holy cow! Magness’s brain is complete conspiracist/persecution complex mush at this point isn’t it?
It’s fascinating that he calls my clarification on the phrasing of my response my “defense” but totally skips my actual response.
The comparison to Slobodian is flattering, but Phil doesn’t understand what’s going on. The memo proposes the weighted franchise Hutt proposed elsewhere. He then says maybe it isn’t the best, but if proponents of expanding the franchise don’t like it they should propose an alternative. Thats all!
After weeks of heat and beating sun it’s nice to be out on an overcast morning after a thunderstorm.
I agree with Magness 100% that they were “both attempting to address the same problem of dictatorship in postcolonial Africa”! But Hutt’s solution was “iron clad” white rule. Lewis did not advocate this! This difference and its significance should not be so hard for Magness to parse.
It’s so obnoxious for Magness to use Lewis to launder Hutt. The issue is not acknowledging dictatorships happen and saying they should be guarded against. The issue is Hutt arguing that African votes should be downweighted permanently so white votes are always a majority. Lewis didn’t advocate that.
This reminds me of the libertarians telling on themselves by saying that W.H. Hutt’s weighted franchise actually wasn’t racist because when some African nations got universal suffrage dictators came to power, thus vindicating downweighting African votes. That is, in fact, racist!
“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.”
Happy to share a new paper: “T.T. Bryce, Thomas Jesse Jones, and Economics at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1878 to 1906” Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
While my youngest was bending metal to her will at my parents’, my oldest and I made mozzarella from scratch which was also pretty cool. I’m a strong proponent of knowing, at some vague basic level, how to make stuff.
I did it on the sibling group chat so I can’t say anything was stolen I just want to stake my claim.
This confuses female labor force participation with household production. While I suspect the biggest single contributor to GDP growth is productivity growth, the shift from household production to market production has got to be second (possibly third behind population growth idk). /1
Spending my Fourth of July with that crown jewel of the Constitution, the decennial Census.
I’m deep into Jeffrey Stewart’s excellent voluminous biography of Alain Locke and something that’s striking is the huge generational component of conservatism. In Stewart’s telling, which of course is only his, Du Bois comes across as a conservative force but I think it’s primarily his seniority.
I’m at an antique shop in Ruckersville, which is near Charlottesville, and found Dick Wagner’s entry in a 1966 UVA graduation exercises book. Charlie Plott also there and several names that were familiar but I don’t know as well.
You know who was telling us to take the American tradition of nullification seriously A DECADE AGO? …Nancy MacLean
They’re wildly out of touch. Americans consistently support birthright citizenship because for all the racism in this country we hate the idea of a permanent underclass, understand what it means to be a nation of immigrants, and even if they are anti-immigrant they oppose the child paying for it.