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Punched Out

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Will H. Moore

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

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Will H. Moore

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

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Will H. Moore

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 →

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Public Notice to all Levels of Government in the United States

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Will H. Moore

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 →

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A Hot Take on Human Rights & Backlash

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Will H. Moore

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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“Gracious” v “Sore” Election Losers, US Stylee

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Will H. Moore

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

Posted on October 9, 2016 by Will H. Moore

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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Fiske & the Mutual Admiration Society

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Will H. Moore

I have often wished we could simplify our social status signalling to the dog greeting technique.  Start with your prior belief about your station in the hierarchy, and wag your tail / stand still / or shrink your posture accordingly; … Continue reading →

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File Drawer Exchange on Twitter

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Will H. Moore

This happened on Twitter today, and I think it will make a useful prompt for discussion in seminar later this seminar, so I am recording it here.   Justin Esarey then weighed in with 13 posts explaining why he disagrees … Continue reading →

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“Don’t Trust the Refugees!” 1980s Peru, Stylee

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Will H. Moore

It will come as no surprise to many that Donald Trump’s beating of the fear drum vis-a-vis Arab and Muslim migrants and refugees is a tried and true narrative among politicians who oversee police regimes . In 1982, during Peru’s … Continue reading →

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