Derek Gottlieb
@derekgottliebphd.com
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I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
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was it your christmas wish to listen to three people collectively lose their shit over a meritless polemic? well then, belated christmas, you filthy animals.
Half the Answer #56: Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses the mark, and what strategies its authors use to downplay the threats from the right and fabricate a threat from the left.
Half the Answer #56: The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One
Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses the mark, what strategies its authors use to downp...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
was it your christmas wish to listen to three people collectively lose their shit over a meritless polemic? well then, belated christmas, you filthy animals.
It’s time :)
11-year-old: I think we need a new house rule.
Me: Oh yeah? What's that?
11: Dad isn't allowed to quote Coming to America until he lets us watch it.
Me: Oh yeah? What's that?
11: Dad isn't allowed to quote Coming to America until he lets us watch it.
two men sitting in a crowd with the words i 'm very happy to be here
ALT: two men sitting in a crowd with the words i 'm very happy to be here
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December 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It’s time :)
Oh the billionaires are thinking of leaving again?
“income inequality increased over a 33-year period ending in 2022, with the share of wealth held by families in the top 10 percent at around 69 percent, while the share held by families in the bottom 50 percent at just 3 percent.”
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Oh the billionaires are thinking of leaving again?
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"Trust but verify."
It's the theme of this week's Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit Episode 3 of HBO's Chernobyl and unpack the dangers of doing science in an authoritarian surveillance state where power is built on lies.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
It's the theme of this week's Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit Episode 3 of HBO's Chernobyl and unpack the dangers of doing science in an authoritarian surveillance state where power is built on lies.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
(3) Trust But Verify
Podcast Episode · Control Room · 12/26/2025 · 1h 2m
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December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Trust but verify."
It's the theme of this week's Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit Episode 3 of HBO's Chernobyl and unpack the dangers of doing science in an authoritarian surveillance state where power is built on lies.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
It's the theme of this week's Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit Episode 3 of HBO's Chernobyl and unpack the dangers of doing science in an authoritarian surveillance state where power is built on lies.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
It’s the day after Xmas and that means episode 3 of the Control Room project I’m doing with @jessicacalarco.com is out!
Lots of talk in this one about science with a capital S, and what happens under the pressures of institutionalization.
Lots of talk in this one about science with a capital S, and what happens under the pressures of institutionalization.
(3) Trust But Verify
Podcast Episode · Control Room · 12/26/2025 · 1h 2m
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December 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It’s the day after Xmas and that means episode 3 of the Control Room project I’m doing with @jessicacalarco.com is out!
Lots of talk in this one about science with a capital S, and what happens under the pressures of institutionalization.
Lots of talk in this one about science with a capital S, and what happens under the pressures of institutionalization.
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The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
I love Zerilli’s chapters on Rawls and Habermas in “A Democratic Theory of Judgment” for just this reason, but it’s Danielle Allen’s skewering of Habermas that goes hardest in a single sentence: "Habermas solves the problem of generating agreement only by undoing the need to work hard for it."
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I love Zerilli’s chapters on Rawls and Habermas in “A Democratic Theory of Judgment” for just this reason, but it’s Danielle Allen’s skewering of Habermas that goes hardest in a single sentence: "Habermas solves the problem of generating agreement only by undoing the need to work hard for it."
That’s right — and to make the metaphor explicit, like, we’ve all grown up as “automobile natives,” yet I think our average capacity to do basic car repair is probably lower than it was 70 years ago.
I remember people saying Gen Alpha would grow up as digital natives and be so much more tech savvy than anybody else, except we’ve made computers so glossy and functional that they don’t need to poke around under the hood because for the most part it just works.
December 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
That’s right — and to make the metaphor explicit, like, we’ve all grown up as “automobile natives,” yet I think our average capacity to do basic car repair is probably lower than it was 70 years ago.
grateful to @schooldaves.bsky.social for reposting this right when I sat down at the laptop. I’m finishing an educational “policy review” of the first year of Trump II, and I have to make some recommendations for LEAs/SEAs—which come down to avoiding capture. Even for ppl aligned with admin goals:
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
grateful to @schooldaves.bsky.social for reposting this right when I sat down at the laptop. I’m finishing an educational “policy review” of the first year of Trump II, and I have to make some recommendations for LEAs/SEAs—which come down to avoiding capture. Even for ppl aligned with admin goals:
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At long last, we have created the Homo Sacer from the classic critical theory text Don't Create The Homo Sacer.
honestly I think that we should pass a law denying the protection of any federal law to anyone who received a pardon from Trump. nothing done to them by any other person should be criminal.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
At long last, we have created the Homo Sacer from the classic critical theory text Don't Create The Homo Sacer.
I was so confused when my little brother gifted me whiskey stones in like 2017. I have no idea what became of them.
"Contrary to popular belief and what the salespeople at Brookstone and ad copy in Skymall will tell you, nobody in history has ever used a whiskey stone."
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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-...
Oh God, Someone Gave Me Whiskey Stones
Now that the season of good cheer is behind us, I feel I can bring up a serious and painful issue that unfortunately became a reality for me this y...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I was so confused when my little brother gifted me whiskey stones in like 2017. I have no idea what became of them.
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Because again the core issue wasn't actually jobs in these fields going to people 'because woke' but that there were no jobs to be had at all.
Amazing how little changed during the era of peak woke, yet we still got the woke panic.
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Because again the core issue wasn't actually jobs in these fields going to people 'because woke' but that there were no jobs to be had at all.
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Minnesota Republicans and Donald Trump are right now pretending to care about fraud. Fraud is bad. The shit in MN was terrible. But … let’s me clear that they don’t actually care.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Minnesota Republicans and Donald Trump are right now pretending to care about fraud. Fraud is bad. The shit in MN was terrible. But … let’s me clear that they don’t actually care.
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How many turnovers for Detroit today?
a man in a joker costume leans against a wall
ALT: a man in a joker costume leans against a wall
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December 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
How many turnovers for Detroit today?
Fittingly, the Vikings put the game away by doing the one thing that had eluded them all afternoon: complete a forward pass.
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fittingly, the Vikings put the game away by doing the one thing that had eluded them all afternoon: complete a forward pass.
What is this lineup?
December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
What is this lineup?
People don’t know how great Milwaukee is
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
People don’t know how great Milwaukee is
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Whooo boy was I wrong about this book. If you haven’t already do yourself a favor and read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
Twenty pages into my first Michael Chabon book and I'm convinced he's less interested in telling a story than he is in convincing the reader how clever he is. Every sentence is something I'd tell a grad not to do.
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Whooo boy was I wrong about this book. If you haven’t already do yourself a favor and read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
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In your own way, do you keep a lantern burning by the roadside with a note saying where you may be found, “just in case”? Do you place a jar of cool water and a bit of fruit under a tree at road’s turning, to help the needy traveler? God knows the answer and so do you!
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December 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In your own way, do you keep a lantern burning by the roadside with a note saying where you may be found, “just in case”? Do you place a jar of cool water and a bit of fruit under a tree at road’s turning, to help the needy traveler? God knows the answer and so do you!
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Kelsey @atherton.bsky.social's thread put me in mind of "The Desert Dweller" from the Rev Dr Howard Thurman's essential book, Meditations of the Heart. One of my ministers read it as part of tonight's service, and I'll share it with you as a gift appropriate to the season.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Kelsey @atherton.bsky.social's thread put me in mind of "The Desert Dweller" from the Rev Dr Howard Thurman's essential book, Meditations of the Heart. One of my ministers read it as part of tonight's service, and I'll share it with you as a gift appropriate to the season.
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Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.
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They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Abstract. This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely
doi.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
The idea of live tweeting the real time events of die hard is genius
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The idea of live tweeting the real time events of die hard is genius
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