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David H Feldman
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I write about the economics of higher education and international trade.

Love New Mexico & cats.

My books:

https://academic.oup.com/book/7559
https://academic.oup.com/book/5108

Social media posts are my own views and do not reflect my employer. .. more

David John Feldman is a British legal academic, author and former judge. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, and served as an international judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement from 2002 to 2010. He is known for having shaped the development of civil liberties and human rights law in the United Kingdom. .. more

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Here is a slightly revised, and much prettier, version of my new working paper on the impact of walking distance on first year student performance. To our knowledge, this is the first study to measure this effect, which proved significant and surprisingly large.

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Harvard to Hegseth ...

Won't hurt Harvard much. They have plenty of other social mission things to do with slots and the tiny military contribution to tuition is a rounding error in the thousandths place. The victims are the officers who won't get the opportunity to study there.
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The American nation is doing this, and as an American I am responsible, just as all Germans bore some collective blame for the atrocities committed in their name. And we will have to atone.

There will be a reckoning, punishment, and compensation. We are all responsible.

Natch!

Why DID the bobcat cross the road?

MN police seem more intent on assaulting and arresting protesters.

The still version!

We don't often get Northern Flickers at the feeder, but one is chowing down on the cold February day.

Yes, Trump is a narcissist. But this isn't about his narcissism. He expects us to jump to that conclusion and miss the main theme.

This is about accustoming us always to bend the knee. This is about raw power to command. There is only one politically effective response. It's risky, but necessary.
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That's why I have cats ...

Ah, no, scratch that. They are truly our overlords.

This will help his candidacy, alas.

This is the downside of gerrymandering. We have an increasing number of extremist nuts for whom politics is all about the theater of cruelty and showboating.

The naming stuff is all about bending the knee - pure power.
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On another topic, can you tell me why the Minnesota State Police are assaulting protestors now? Does Gov. Walz have no power to control the state police?

What is stopping Minnesota from conducting its own investigation? The videos alone would likely lead to an indictment in any normal process.

You have a skill we did not know about!

And what if the WH does remove it? Then Sen. Scott will be satisfied, and return to bending the knee to Trump?

You can't unsee this. You cannot explain it away as a mistake. This is who the Republicans are, and Tim Scott has a choice to make. Unfortunately, he'll likely make the Collins choice.

If Congress doesn't, and we know it is paralyzed, we should prepare for East German-style Stasi prosecutions in 2029.

We won't have all the legal issues Germany faced in prosecuting Stasi agents due to differences between East and West German law. These American thugs are violating existing US law.

We see what you did there, ... but someone might miss it at first glans.

One word to describe Gelernter. Ewwwwwww.

Perhaps he can't be fired for this. But he can be shunned by students and by his colleagues. Social disapproval remains powerful, if costly. I would also shun people who don't shun him. Things get sticky, but how else do you draw clear lines?

I like this one of me. I wear it when I want to see puzzled looks on the faces of Americans who can't get over seeing that word on a red shirt and who haven't a clue why there's a maple leaf on it...

ahhahahaaaa!

I resemble that remark. 😉

As someone who dropped their subscription in 2024 I feel both justified, and causal. 😉

The "milk sick" was a terrible frontier ailment that affected many in the early 19th century, possibly killing Lincoln's mother Nancy in 1818. Yes, I know that the "milk sick" was caused by cows grazing on toxic shade plants.

Perhaps we should bring back the term "the milk sick" and hang it on RFK.

5/ ... make it need blind. Yes, that's wonderful.

Surely there is a wealthy and public-spirited philanthropist in the nation with the resources to try a different approach to ensuring that we never get to the point where

"Democracy dies in darkness."

4/ How much would be needed to cover the operating deficit of a major journalism-based non-profit news outlet for the region and the nation? I really don't know, but a $2 billion endowment likely would do.

Outlandish? Well, Michael Bloomberg has given nearly that amount to one university simply to

3/ There is an opportunity here for yet another wealthy person, or perhaps a foundation, to either buy the husk of the WaPo from Bezos, or to found an entirely new DC-based outlet to offer real journalism to the nation and the world.

A $1 billion endowment spins off roughly $50m per year.

2/ The entire operating budget of the LA times is less than 300m, and this is with the old media-company model that is failing. I suspect a news-driven model of good journalism would cost much less, but never be "profitable."

WaPo is seemingly in a death spiral. Bezos has killed its readership and its influence. These cuts will simply worsen its financial predicament. The old advertisement-driven media model is dead for most "newspapers." Perhaps a leaner, non-profit model supported by philanthropy can do better.
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections

How 'bout having a native born grandfather? Asking for a friend. 😉