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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Assassinating Lincoln to bring Andrew Johnson to power did advance John Wilkes Booth’s politics but this was sort of an accident — the plot called for Johnson to be shot too which if it has worked would have put Radical Republicans in charge. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
An interesting thing about assassins is almost all the ones I can think of in US history are in some sense “crazy.” It’s never a highly rational plan to flip partisan control of a senate seat, we’ve never seen a Pelican Brief scenario. James Earl Ray maybe the exception. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
RT @DataProgress: Republicans' opposition to the PACT Act shows that they will use veterans' healthcare as a political tool. On this episo… — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
RT @UnderSecKvaal: New today: Final regulations on student loan forgiveness that protect students from college wrongdoing and help them wit… — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@ArmandDoma Conflict between workers and owners/managers you say 🤔 — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Top schools love affirmative action because it lets them put a diverse, progressive face on what is fundamentally and inherently an elitist, exclusionary endeavor. Whether or not they get to keep doing it, the correct policy is to redirect which institutions get the $$$. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
The best way to address equity in higher education is not to monkey around with the admissions process but to reverse the tendency of less-selective schools to have *higher* prices for low-income students even as instructional spending is much lower. https://t.co/ZKmyc75GxE https://t.co/V7uB1shdkx — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Interesting thoughts from @delong on education and development in East Asia vs Latin America — perhaps a result of a nationalist elite relative to elites who see themselves as essentially colonizers. https://t.co/TYTQok76Io https://t.co/5WMVlqihD8 — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@nbeaudrot This is why it's on my mind! — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
I think "many business executives have conservative political views" is a reality we are going to have to re-adjust to, recognizing that the Trump-era sense that this might not be the case was the illusion. Need to rediscover class politics without being communists about it. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Another example — watch today how many people are denouncing this dumb article (it is dumb) and drawing sweeping conclusions from its dumbness. The correct conclusion is "contemporary incentives overvalue novelty relative to cogency." https://t.co/lrc46WU96Y — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
It's a constant struggle to ask yourself "how widely held is this view actually? What evidence do I have?" — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Then even if 99 percent of published takes are sensible, the deranged takes will benefit from disproportionate amplification — much of that amplification being criticism — because it's more distinctive and more interesting. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
If something is popping in the news and 19 people around the table have sensible boring takes on it, the incentive is to publish the 1 guy who has a deranged inflammatory take. "Actually invading Ukraine is good," "Tolstoy is evil because invading Ukraine is bad." — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Then if despite all that, 99 percent of published takes are sensible and 1 percent are deranged then the odds are the deranged take will end up getting disproportionately amplified — admittedly with much of the amplification being criticism — because it's more distinctive. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
If something is popping in the news the Queen is dead and you go around the table and 19 people have sensible takes on it and one person has a deranged take, the current setup incentivizes you to run the deranged take. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
In the analog era less stuff was published. I'm sure someone pitched "Tolstoy is bad because of Communism" but editors would've said "that's dumb less pass." Today the incentives point toward "that's dumb but it'll get some clicks." — PolitiTweet.org
Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 @razibkhan
as a child of the cold war i don't recall the demonization of russian culture i see now. am i deluding myself? th… https://t.co/fb82MkLedx
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
It's going to be funny when conservatives become disparate impact theorists as civil rights law becomes a bulwark against affirmative action programs and various DEI initiatives they don't like. — PolitiTweet.org
Kevin Carey @kevincarey1
You can already hear in these oral argument how difficult it will be for the government to distinguish intent and c… https://t.co/7m11HcOsOZ
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
What happened to those "you may already be a winner" scam mailings? Feel like that's something you don't see so much anymore. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@DKThomp Indeed! Which, again, is a problem with thinking you can mash up Israeli nationalism with American Christian nationalism on the basis of shared anti-liberalism. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Jay Powell winning — PolitiTweet.org
George Pearkes @pearkes
Asking rents down sequentially two months in a row after seasonal adjustment. https://t.co/z3XdHfPe56
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
The USA has much higher wages than Italy and policing is labor-intensive so I'm sure on an aggregate basis our per capita police spending is higher, but short of a Robocop scenario I don't know how you'd avoid that. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
New York City is an unusually well-policed place, but in the aggregate Italy spends more on police as a share of GDP than the United States. https://t.co/Zs7N95KajF https://t.co/E4COO5jgeh — PolitiTweet.org
Marco Chitti @ChittiMarco
I just discovered that the NYPD budget is $10.9 bn for a 8.5 million city. So I went to see how it compares and th… https://t.co/5K30bw6mgB
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
(a) The Enlightenment is good, actually. (b) The effort to create a pan-antiliberal is riven with contradictions as this critique could be leveled against Benedict XVI and all kinds of other Catholic figures. — PolitiTweet.org
Yoram Hazony @yhazony
Locke never had children. Neither did Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, or Kant. Rousseau had children but gave them all… https://t.co/rWTaqM9aC8
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@lymanstoneky Absolutely, it just shows that the specific policy mix in New York City (very strict gun laws, lots of cops enforcing the gun laws) works well. Every city should be so lucky. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@Jimmcnary @lkmcgann No. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@OsitaNwanevu Gotta do a Virgin Kant vs Chad Adam Smith meme. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@mikekofoed @jenniferdoleac @bradfowd1 But has state spending on higher education actually declined, or has it just declined *as a share of revenue* because aggregate spending has risen? — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@OsitaNwanevu This is how it should be! The enlightenment was and always has been a left project and the point of the right is to cancel it in favor of religious obscurantism and inherited privilege. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
I've never looked into the illusory truth effect literature in any detail but I've heard it summarized enough times that I believe it's true. — PolitiTweet.org
Ethan Mollick @emollick
Paper showing it works after just five repetitions for obviously false statements (“George Washington was born in C… https://t.co/nMIjeE1OEY
