Dr S Maitra
Researcher. Realist. "Reactionary snob". Am-Con, CRA, Royal Hist Soc, Fdrlst, Law&Librty. I don't write the headlines, or read comments. Audentes Fortuna Iuvat.
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The reason you have massive tuition fees is because of this. Some parents who donβt like parenting and in turn are willing to pay bureaucrats at Universities, driving the cost up f...
If we had decent university history departments, they would have done some good comparative research on how China is imitating early Victoriana, or middle American republic. And th...
Hegemony isn't an imperial trait. The Roman Republic wanted to be a hegemon as well. As did the French. It;s an analytical folly to confuse any hegemonic instinct of being the top...
I am sympathetic to the idea. https://t.co/40u6IDW4Lh But as long as we keep saying "Europe" nothing will change, and we'd keep shouting into the ether. There's no "Europe" in this...
This is excruciatingly beautiful. https://t.co/MEzoZevODV
This is a forceful argument, on 1. why "realism" if not as a doctrine, as a rhetorical tool is ascendant...given that it appeals to the people tired of failed policies; 2. everyone...
Most of the people "voted" will either be 1. area experts with no broader wisdom or sense of trade-offs beyond their narrow field, or 2. DEI people. https://t.co/FYgBBL7fGQ This is...
Things you could have known, in 2016, with a cursory understanding of international relations and history, or with an IQ, in PG Wodehouse's words, "30 points below an absent-minded...
I feel like I get to see a version of this hackneyed tweet every year around this time. https://t.co/UfQcAtPAqv
Another meaningless quote of βEU autonomyβ which will never happen in an alliance that cannot stop expanding. https://t.co/H5bVu418la
Truth is that not many care about "freedom of speech" as a principle. They care about power. The only time people realise the importance of those "ancient liberties" is when in a H...
The Ukrainians (and the Baltic states) are going to -re-learn a very hard lesson about where power truly lies, and why rhetoric and realpolitik are entirely different things. https...