Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I spent a while thinking about and reporting on the effect of the 9/11 attacks on American liberalism. It's a classical tragedy: of hubris, good intentions, and moral righteousness paving the way for catastrophe https://t.co/sumheGyuvK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samuelmoyn: “Liberal interventionism barely had a pulse these past few years; Biden’s withdrawal is less its formal end than a long, dr… — PolitiTweet.org

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@KevinWGlass It’s so good! I really like how they chose to integrate a plot, which is actually compelling! — PolitiTweet.org

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Started Hades last night and folks…beating Megara for the first time is so satisfying — PolitiTweet.org

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@emorwee https://t.co/Wywg3pW8Pe — PolitiTweet.org

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@naunihalpublic @phylliskessel That’s just filing for divorce by another name — PolitiTweet.org

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@phylliskessel @naunihalpublic She will be learning to spell “color” right under your nose — PolitiTweet.org

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I do have two pieces in edits that should be coming out in the next week or so — a retrospective on 9/11's effect on liberalism (spoiler: it wasn't good) and an interview with @adam_tooze on his new book on 2020. Stay tuned! — PolitiTweet.org

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Hi folks, posting is going to be a bit light for the next two months because I'll be on paternity leave caring for this little one! @phylliskessel is going back to work and I'm doing the stay-at-home dad thing, so wish me luck https://t.co/kOi0I5vz6u — PolitiTweet.org

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@maxberger You'd have to run something like (likelihood of choice causing bad outcomes X magnitude of expected harms) for each scenario, could come out either way — PolitiTweet.org

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@maxberger If you assume that campaign choices have little impact, which is reasonable, it's possible that Anthony Weiner's dick pics actually ends up being worse in consequential terms — PolitiTweet.org

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I share this not to pick on Friedman especially, though it does highlight the problem with his characteristic flippant tone when it comes to discussions of life-and-death issues. The bigger point is that *almost everything* after 9/11 sounded like this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thomas Friedman on Afghanistan, November 2001 https://t.co/RaDyDVu5e8 — PolitiTweet.org

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This @willwilkinson reminds when I was in rural Pennsylvania this Sunday and came across a house flying two flags. One was the Confederate battle flag; the other said Trump 2024 https://t.co/N0XSl6ah73 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Siri, show me an image that confirms all of my priors about the direction of modern politics" Siri: https://t.co/e7aVaBt9fa — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lionel_trolling: wasn't there a consensus among certain writers that biden would be totally in hock to the neocons who would now domina… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GerardAraud Not necessarily, I think. Big divide between restrainers and certain realists on China, for example — PolitiTweet.org

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@SWGoldman I think your point about how the material is taught mattering is well taken, but the article doesn't do any reporting on that score. It just assumes that the very act of teaching antiracist literature is bad, which is (in my opinion) telling. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SWGoldman I will say I encountered that exact book in high school and, while I didn't fully understand it, took away some useful ideas. And I have genuinely mixed feelings about Kendi. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SWGoldman I don't think that's the clearly the case for anything other than DiAngelo. It certainly isn't for Coates or Delgado/Stefancic — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSerwer When I went to GDS in the early/mid-2000s, the joke was that South Park's "death camp of tolerance" episode was written about us. Which speaks both to your point and that the backlash exemplified by this article isn't novel, just louder — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway this article is only legible if you read it with the assumption that teaching students and staff about antiracism is necessarily bad. Which is a...telling position to take. — PolitiTweet.org

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Personally I think it's bad when students read influential books on big subjects and then are asked to reflect on them, this doesn't sound like what education is supposed to do at all https://t.co/vmehs34r9p — PolitiTweet.org

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Another way to summarize these grafs are "students at elite institutions reported a series of racist incidents and the schools took it seriously" https://t.co/EoeO8ySlT4 — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a very funny article that lists a series of things that mostly seem unobjectionable and good as if they were bad and nefarious https://t.co/syyzheJriR — PolitiTweet.org

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First day back in DC and someone nearly hit my dogs with his car and then threatened to beat me up. Ah, city life. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SethFriederman @phylliskessel Putting two objects together to illustrate similarities rather than differences — PolitiTweet.org

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Settle a dispute between @phylliskessel and I - can juxtaposition refer to — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DLind: NEW: "Fakhruddin Akbari is allowing his full name to be published because he is certain he is going to die." On the hundreds… — PolitiTweet.org

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What's more likely? — PolitiTweet.org