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Punched Out
Assuming I did not botch the task, by the time this posts I will have been dead via suicide for several hours. Nope, that’s not a setup to a joke.[1] Why would someone who is healthy, employed, has every outside … Continue reading
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Kerfuffle, Human Rights Data Stylee
A post yesterday at openGlobalRights has generated frustration and ire among several of us who work in the data production (and analysis) salt mines. Lawrence Sáez, a political economist at U London’s SOAS, opined thusly under the headline “Human rights … Continue reading
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Seasons Greetings, Bureaucracy Stylee
When I receive something like the e-card below I generally wonder–and I use that word literally–what it is like to not feel insulted; what it is like to not want to lash out and demand some respect for myself, for … Continue reading
Public Notice to all Levels of Government in the United States
I, hereby publicly declare my Muslim and Arab/Berber heritage.[1] My surname, Moore, was the 16th most common surname in the United States in the 2000 census, and our lineage traces back to one of three surname sources: (1) the people … Continue reading
A Hot Take on Human Rights & Backlash
This is something I teach my undergraduate students in my human rights course: there is nothing about the radical notion of universal human dignity and rights that is “natural” to homo sapiens. It is an argument. Nothing more. And … Continue reading
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Week 7: Scale & Causal Relations
Given the break from abstraction provided by week 6’s review of exemplars, we dove back into abstraction for the final two weeks of the Theory section of the course. For week seven we first covered the concept of scale (usually … Continue reading
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Week 6: Exemplars
For week 6 of the Scientific Inquiry–Theory & Inference seminar we wanted to put some flesh on the abstract skeletal structure we had covered thus far in the course. So we had them read a bunch of work that does some … Continue reading
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What is knowing, what is science, what is theory?
This is the third in a series of guest posts by Nate Monroe. I’ve been under water for a few weeks, and that’s left me five weeks behind in my new blogging enterprise. So, in an effort to get back … Continue reading
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“Gracious” v “Sore” Election Losers, US Stylee
My friend, and former colleague at UC, Riverside, Shaun Bowler has a post over at Vox that discusses the important role of concession speeches by losing politicians that affirm the legitimacy of the process. Adam Przeworski famously put the issue … Continue reading
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Meet Rape Culture: Progress and the Long Road Ahead
That Donald Trump is the perfect spokesperson to spread awareness that rape culture has been a part of the human experience since recorded history is not terribly surprising. Indeed, the only positive thing I can take from his successful run … Continue reading
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