HughMyronbrough
🩺 Physician (IM) | Asst. Clinical Professor | 🇺🇸 w/ Brown Characteristics | Cosmopolitan at Heart | West Coaster by Origin
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My take on the affirmative action thing: College admissions is a place where we have to weigh competing concerns. Merit-based admissions are the most fair and rational way of sele...
My view on this is complicated. In general I subscribe to the Marxist view of why people think the way they think: people’s socioeconomic stratums determine their viewpoints, and...
The problem with Indian elites is that they see themselves as temporarily embarrassed Westerners, so they chase the flashy, high-end markers of success rather than rolling up their...
Scott Alexander was similar: he retained his commitment to small-l liberal norms, decorum, institutionalism, even as a major news institution ruined his career. It baffled me init...
It is weird how none of the “Paper Belt on Fire,” “tech will revolutionize education” people have argued that tech will do anything to ameliorate India’s horrific and numerous issu...
The BJP figured out that the "haters make us famous" strategy is a pretty good one. Allow me to explain: Indians, especially now, are sovereignty hawks. They do NOT like people, e...
The problem is that things were even worse when we didn’t fight over our past. Pai is using a rhetorical maneuver very common in Indian liberal circles: https://t.co/iOWiqEmPI3
1) If you think Indians (regardless of political stance) are in any way fans of classical liberalism, then you probably don't know anything about India. https://t.co/wKTqc6F7i7