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In 2015, I applied to ten American universities for a PhD. Got rejected by all ten. Here is the reason (I think) I got rejected:
If your course is related to Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, RT and Tag your friends Now. The following shows list of schools in Canadaπ¨π¦ that offer scholarship for Ph.D. an...
This is a very tangled web of confusion, even for Twitter. According to this postdoc, sex is a many-splendored thing: "Sex" names our observation of correlations. But also "sex"...
𧡠1/ Americans don't understand class. American socialists especially Every week i hear: "How can Trump be considered anti-elite? He's a billionaire!?" This fundamentally misund...
@robinhanson Most moral claims, really. Its the source of the old metajoke about "irregular conjugations" (I flavor the story, you embellish, he lies)
In 1916, Lenin called imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah said that neocolonialism is the last stage of imperialism. Both are obsolete. Since 1990...
Soc of ed researchers, any recommendation for an undergrad reading on inequalities *between* schools? (funding, achievement, etc.) Looking for a short @Contexts style essay or bl...
If your course is related to Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, RT and Tag your friends Now. The following shows a list of schools in Canadaπ¨π¦ that offer scholarship for Ph.D....
βThe Rise and Fall of Imperial Chinaβ by Yuhua Wang is a grand feat of a book. It covers an immense amount of history, undertakes extensive empirical work, and develops a powerful...
What is unsaid is that these are the descendants of language, sociology and anthropology departments that were used by colonial powers to deconstruct and delegitimise indigenous cu...
A thread on the British Empire in India. With widespread physical infrastructure investments, social reform and collaboration with many Indians, this colonial history is more comp...
@CassSunstein @KingsCollegeLon @PeterBoettke @timurkuran @duncanjwatts @SibOliv There is a deeper problem than lack of *data* or *information*, words which imply a universal & univ...
When smart people do things that appear stupid, re-examine incentives.
πππ ππ₯'π¬ ππ’ππ₯ππππ’ππ¬ π―π¬ πππ«π±'π¬ ππ’ππ₯ππππ’ππ¬ Hegel's dialectics is a philosophy developed by G.W.F Hegel in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It involves a process of arriving at...
A shortπ§΅on research grant writing & preliminary results. The question of whether it's valuable to include preliminary results in grant proposals is one that, I think, needs to be...
10 books I would suggest for understanding our political movement 1. Why Liberalism Failed-@PatrickDeneen 2. Revolt Of The Elites- Christopher Lasch 3. Coming Apart- @charlesmu...
Hayek blows apart the "objectivist" / "subjectivist" dichotomy of the German and Austrian economists like Sombart, Mises & Lachmann, and shows that all of these elements are object...
Fascinating paper on the sexual behavior of the French between 1300 and 1700. Summary thread.𧡠https://t.co/5ioiGNl0sY
Dr. Wilhelm Reich. One of the pioneer of Freudian-Marxian synthesis, he's said to have invented sexual revolution in USA in the 1960s. As early as 1940, he founded the disciplin...
*PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS 1913-1946* by Otto Neurath (pdf) https://t.co/f6d6ZJT2up
*PRIDE AND ORDER: A STUDY OF THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT* by Daniel Luban https://t.co/RjOrsuumDv
Time to do a proper π§΅of my book https://t.co/ElWqBklmkU. I only started twitter when it came out, now after a year of experience, using the occasion of the paperback release to try...
Oh no I accidentally made a social psychology hate thread.
The following shows a list of schools in the USAπΊπΈ that offer scholarship for PhD and MA programs. If your course is related to Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, or some multidi...