Ursinus College (blameless). Author: Let's Be Reasonable (Feb. 2021). Work in WSJ, Bulwark, Commentary, Wash. Examiner, CHE, InsideHigherEd, McSweeney's

Joined October 2012
Thread: 1. Today is publication day for my book, Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education (@PrincetonUPress). If youre interested in our colleges and universities, please give it a look. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Unduly negative. We’re not even halfway into the century.
The Eagles have been out-gained by 745 yards this season. That's their worst yardage differential through 7 weeks this century. It's over 300 yards worse than any other Eagles team since 2000.
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Gave in and went to Cheesecake Factory. Some wiseacre pointed out that I had been sucked into a desperate campaign to relive the glory days of 2016. I had the $17.95 Vegan Cobb Salad.
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This is why we take a field trip to the abyss on day one.
So much of teaching is about conjuring for students an experience many may not have had, or had only dimly and then buried: a crisis of meaning, a sense of emptiness, etc. You know, unpleasant ones. And if they’re not open to it you’re dead in the water.
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While the "MAGA" people pretend that Cheesecake Factory is a populist haunt, I remain at my post in my local Cracker Barrel parking lot, ready to act at the first sign its execs are trying to wokeify. I have been here for more than a year and have yet to see "Scott Bessent."
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I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT!
Replying to @danintheory
The physics collaboration will understand and explain a result that gives a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of particle physics. As a subproblem, this work also includes a proof of the existence of pure Yang–Mills theory, which is part of the Quantum Yang–Mills Theory Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize problem. These proofs are all formally verified in Lean. Our models produced a natural language proof for Yang–Mills existence, and then subsequently produced a proof for QCD After the formalization completed, we reached out to David Gross. David will lead a group including Michael Douglas, Arthur Jaffe, Igor Klebanov, and Nikita Nekrasov that will shepherd this work, and we will defer to them on the release of materials. Gross’s work on asymptotic freedom in Yang-Mills theories helped establish QCD as the theory of the strong interactions and earned him a share of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. Jaffe formulated the Quantum Yang–Mills Theory Millenium Prize problem with Witten and also envisioned the idea of Millennium Prize problems and co-founded the Clay Mathematics Institute. Douglas has already been a steward of this problem over the last 20 years; Klebanov helped pioneer the application of gauge–string duality to confinement, an important property of QCD, and now directs the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings; and Nekrasov has done groundbreaking work on exact methods for generalizations of Yang–Mills theory.
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Can’t show my students this clip because I promised them that liberal education solves the problem of death.
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Jonathan Marks retweeted
🇮🇱 It is now midnight here in Israel. Election Day has begun. In seven hours, at 7 AM, 12,018 polling places will open across Israel. They will remain open until 10 PM. 7,331,981 Israeli citizens aged 18 and above are eligible to vote in today’s election. יאללה להצביע! 🇮🇱
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Norway’s South African expat community hardest hit.
#closingmessage PORT HURON, Michigan, Oct 25 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and ‌saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, had not awarded him a Peace Prize.
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He who wilfully disagrees with *both* peer reviewers is either a beast or a god.
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i've had manuscripts rejected by journals you wouldn't even read
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I tried this same thing, but all Dazzle gave me was that Ed would grow up to kill me and marry his mother. It's fine, though because Dazzle also had some good ideas about how to get around it.
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Don’t make me say “strains credulity.” You won’t like what happens next.
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GOP operative: “I don’t like what I’m seeing in these numbers. We need to turn this thing around.” Trump admin. guy [barks into red phone]; “OPERATION TALK ABOUT MEN’S ASSES IS A GO!”
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While I agree that Trump falsely accused El-Sayed of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and compared stopping him to stopping the 9/11 terrorists, I am also concerned about what Obama said about the Cheesecake Factory. I just don’t like the way either is behaving.
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711,000 votes in Serbia have been counted and the Student List takes its first lead. It will grow a lot from here.
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Lula wins re-election in Brazil by 3.5%, or about 4.4 million votes. Bolsonaro didn't get the numbers he needed in the South and the leftist NE turnout at slightly higher rates.
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The most informed investors gamble on my scammy-sounding platform because they saw an ad.
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People are making fun, but this is the way to think when you’re super/important and influential. For the same reason, I save my most important but, alas, potentially history-changing, insights, for people who will pay for them
I've been asked about early voting analysis. The dilemma I have is that my platform is big enough such that being too blunt can have an effect on morale. I'll push out new states and tools out to my website soon, but won't announce them here on 𝕏. I will be giving @realJeremyCarl my predictions a week in advance so he can hold me accountable after Election Day. You MUST turn out and bring their friends, and brace yourself on election night. Even TX is going to be a fight.
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needed video to believe he actually said this 9 days before an election.
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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Wait a minute. I thought the documentary featuring an inscrutable female protagonist maintaining a discreet distance from a shady enterprise managed by her grating and narcissistic male partner was entitled “Melania.” Is this a different one?
‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ earned $19.5M in its second weekend, a 25% increase from its opening weekend. It is tracking to become one of the highest grossing non-music documentaries of the century.
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