Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Those two little blue check marks just mock you — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

One of the fun things about working in countries where WhatsApp is the normative mode of communication is that the read receipts allow you to see exactly which sources are deliberately choosing to ignore you — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Love to be back in Israel, where my cab driver stops the car in the middle of a busy intersection because he wants to send a text — PolitiTweet.org

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Zeeshan is a leftist who knows the situation well. His analysis of why the “it’s a CIA coup” argument is wrong is sharp and credible — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZeeshanAleem: Some quick observations about the situation in Bolivia, where President Evo Morales has shocked the world with his resign… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ishaantharoor: Necessary @zackbeauchamp intervention here on how "centrism" is not just a "bias," as admitted by that Politico column,… — PolitiTweet.org

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@yeselson I like that, it’s a sharper way of putting the feeling at play here — PolitiTweet.org

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This is billed as a rebuttal, but it's actually a pure expression of the ideology I'm going after here https://t.co/uGuJmpf3fm — PolitiTweet.org

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John Harris says the quiet part out loud https://t.co/21ylu3tcSd — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin i see you're entering your tradcon period — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt @DouthatNYT @ptbrennan11 Even setting that aside, it isn’t intuitively obvious to me that sacrificing a child is worse than executing one of the greatest thinkers in human history (or, more relevantly, the Inquisition killing a false converso) — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt @ptbrennan11 @DouthatNYT the distinction is especially tough when the executions are for religious crimes — PolitiTweet.org

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@ezraklein @B_resnick i just filed a 700 word piece for the first time in god knows how long — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSerwer @jbouie @zamartin Or the Inquisition, which just so happens to have been extremely active in Spain at the time of Cortez's conquests — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSerwer @jbouie this pairs nicely with the "actually, Cortez was good" take published in the federalist today https://t.co/JBe2eGvXWk https://t.co/JJjRYKuZUi — PolitiTweet.org

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The polling data in that piece is not made up. Dismissing nearly all of British Jewry as drowning in ideology, duped by the anti-Corbyn press that only foreign leftists have the proper perspective to see through, is deeply infantilizing — PolitiTweet.org

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I find it incredibly frustrating when American leftists try to cover for Jeremy Corbyn on anti-Semitism, dismissing it as some kind of smear. This is the country's leading Jewish paper begging non-Jews to listen to them https://t.co/d3yHlmeDnI https://t.co/OoqBuqPh9z — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan i'm leaving for a conference this evening on the relationship between IR academia and journalism and i am definitely bringing this up — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan do people actually not know about that? remarkable — PolitiTweet.org

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The Vox team is extremely amused this morning, as one of our editors who handles a lot of impeachment content (@jenn_ruth) is named Jennifer Williams — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MichaelRStrain: I very much enjoyed talking with @zackbeauchamp about the important issues that underlie many policy debates. https:/… — PolitiTweet.org

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I had a really interesting conversation with @MichaelRStrain on some points of principled disagreement when it comes to Warren’s wealth tax https://t.co/kuxLSJDKJS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @linhktranx: 1 winter day 4 yrs ago, I woke up to see my inbox filled w/ racial slurs & death threats only because my article had been d… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin @dylanmatt @jaycaspiankang it is true that one of those toc breakrounds involved us, yes — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @adrs: On today’s #resetpod, @zackbeauchamp explains: 1. Why ppl are focused on lying in political ads *on social media* when politicia… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Vinncent @OsitaNwanevu No, there's a big difference between descriptive categorizations referring to socially created categories and normative statements. The second is much harder to make sense out of, philosophically. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanFosterType @RhetoricPJ So I think you can cleanly separate moral statements from aesthetic ones if you can argue for a specific meta-ethical theory that explains what the property of being morally wrong/right actually is. I think there are plausible theories for that but not in the aesthetic case — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu I think it's because he's making a value judgment. It's not just "films of X type are being crowded out by films of Y type" but "X films are being crowded out by Y films, *and that's bad* because X films are art while Y films are not, and thus superior" — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChristianM62 It's a little hard to tell. It really does seem like he's not only outlining two traditions, but also making a claim that one is objectively superior. Too bad op-eds by directors aren't more philosophically precise! — PolitiTweet.org

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Chatting with you all about this has been the most fun Twitter procrastination I've done in a while, ty — PolitiTweet.org