Jacob T. Levy
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
- Holy heck.
- Price controls on pharmaceuticals -> shortages of pharmaceuticals -> more people signing up for RFK's quack remedies. Synergy!
- If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
- The administration's understanding of the "merit-based hiring" that is supposed to replace DEI is to fire a Black woman with relevant professional qualifications and replace her with a personal crony from a different profession entirely who is literally a guy named White.
- I’m old enough to remember stuff like this
- Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
- I followed up on this: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- I know NIH is ~5x bigger than NSF but I think the gutting of NSF is getting a lot less than 1/5 the attention— in the news media and in higher ed— compared with what's happened to NIH.
- It is also being an absolute asshole, who disrespects their colleague’s work. 🤬 I guess the one little upside is that they are no longer exploiting their grad students to do the reviews.
- To be clear, I am not at all against grad students reviewing manuscripts — in fact, I think they often do a better job. I am against the exploitation of grad students. Have them review but under their own name and with due credit.
- I've only recently learned that some people have grad students do their reviews; I was stunned.
- One of the many reforms of post-presidencies we need is to make it illegal to establish fundraising entities for presidential libraries before a president leaves office. (More fundamentally, or also, we don’t need presidential libraries. Give the papers to the LoC / National Archives.)
- Presidential libraries are fine. Inhancing the educational opportunities and access to information of a region is good. Not centralizing everything in a country this big is good. It's the fundraising. Just regulate the fundraising and purpose.
- One of my gut checks: "Are we extending more honor, privilege, and prestige to the president than to the other two branches combined?" Even if they were publicly funded, these shrines are an example of what it looks like when the answer is yes.
