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Jim Henley
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4 years ago
in Comments Open on Will Wilkinson
I thought you made a good point the other day about the one thing, but in one of the other posts you were wrong about something. Also, there was one I kind of zoned out on.
4 years ago
in Rorty Phones It In on Will Wilkinson
You don't mean any of the above in a BAD way, do you?
4 years ago
in The Illusory Aura of Ivy on Will Wilkinson
Marty Peretz doesn't know any black people, would be explanation one. The secondary explanation would be ideological, I'd think. On racial issues, TNR is at the right of the liberal spectrum. Hostile environment! TAP's situation presumably falls primarily on the former prong. Since Harvard does have affirmative action it suggests that AA's ability to usher black students into the sunlit uplands of cronyism is limited, for whatever reason.
I am by no means being merely snarky here. And it occurs to me that the "limits of cronyism" theory may dovetail with the current "over-promotion" meme. To wit: if Harvard admits black students who would do well at UMass but struggle at Harvard, then Marty Peretz's universe comprises a bunch of white students, some of whom are obvious hotshots, and a smaller number of black ones, most of whom are struggling. Ditto for whoever TAP's talent-spotters are at our better institutions.
I am by no means being merely snarky here. And it occurs to me that the "limits of cronyism" theory may dovetail with the current "over-promotion" meme. To wit: if Harvard admits black students who would do well at UMass but struggle at Harvard, then Marty Peretz's universe comprises a bunch of white students, some of whom are obvious hotshots, and a smaller number of black ones, most of whom are struggling. Ditto for whoever TAP's talent-spotters are at our better institutions.
4 years ago
in Are Libertarians Cheerier? on Will Wilkinson
Will's cheerful? Let's all write Cato and get him fired for cheeriness!
4 years ago
in We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Baseball on Will Wilkinson
Since Loverro started with the physical insults ("pencil-neck geeks"), I feel I should mention that he has a high queaky voice that is most unbecoming in a grown man.
4 years ago
in Getting Serious About Getting Serious on Will Wilkinson
Such discernment, foresight, and moral nobility!
I'll grant you that I rock. Micha Ghertner rocks more, but I'm pretty damn rocking.
You, on the other hand, have conjured the single most bizarre argument for Iraq Wars Phase III and IV that I've heard yet, and I thought I'd heard them all. We're helping "libertarian Iraqis." Yah. My fear is that, maybe we can indeed free the libertarian Iraqis - from their prison in your imagination - but they'll likely balk when we try to send them to Iraq. ("No fair! We liked it better in McLain's head!") Is the ethnic cleansing of someone's daydreams a war crime?
I'll grant you that I rock. Micha Ghertner rocks more, but I'm pretty damn rocking.
You, on the other hand, have conjured the single most bizarre argument for Iraq Wars Phase III and IV that I've heard yet, and I thought I'd heard them all. We're helping "libertarian Iraqis." Yah. My fear is that, maybe we can indeed free the libertarian Iraqis - from their prison in your imagination - but they'll likely balk when we try to send them to Iraq. ("No fair! We liked it better in McLain's head!") Is the ethnic cleansing of someone's daydreams a war crime?
4 years ago
in Getting Serious About Getting Serious on Will Wilkinson
Uh, what Iraqi libertarians? Seriously. Leaving aside the whole "friends of liberty everywhere but guardians only of our own" thing, which has a pretty distinguished pedigree, where are these Iraqi libertarians?
What we actually seem to be doing, as things go south, is installing an unstable alliance of two collectivisms (Shiite and Kurdish) over a third (Sunni Arab). That's not exactly a Mesopotamian Free State Project.
What we actually seem to be doing, as things go south, is installing an unstable alliance of two collectivisms (Shiite and Kurdish) over a third (Sunni Arab). That's not exactly a Mesopotamian Free State Project.
