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A pertinent perspective on some fraudulent "free speech" protests..... Monday Smackdown: Who Wants Charles Murray to Speak on Their Campus, and Why? http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/07/monday-smackdown-who-wants-charles-murray-to-speak-and-why.html I have a question for Stanford's Michael @McFaul ... We know that "If the heritability of IQ were 0.5 and the degree of assortation in mating, m, were 0.2 (both reasonable, if only ballpark estimates), and if the genetic inheritance of IQ were the only mechanism accounting for intergenerational income transmission, then the intergenerational correlation of lifetime incomes would be 0.01..."   (see Bowles and Giants (2002)) . That is only two percent the observed intergenerational correlation—49/50 of the intergenerational transmission of status in America comes from other causes. Why, then, is it important to invite to your campus to speak someone whose big thing is the intergenerational transmission of intelli...

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It just bothers me a little when a so-called expert confuses the Baltic states (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania ) and the Balkan states (former Yugoslavia), which are kind of in a different part of Europe. Is it an error in the transcript? Ellen Schwartz (916)835-4330 Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2018, at 6:47 AM, Paul Krehbiel < paulkrehbiel1970@gmail.com > wrote: Thanks John.  This is an important interview. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2018, at 4:09 AM, John Case < jcase4218@gmail.com > wrote: Debunking the Putin Panic with Stephen F. Cohen Posted on   July 30, 2018   by   Yves Smith Yves here. Jerri-Lynn found   this Real News Network interview,   which is oddly not easy to locate on its site, but encouragingly, it has gotten a good level of views on YouTube. AARON MATE:  It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Mate. This is part two with Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton. In part one we ...

Thanks John.  This is an important interview. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2018, at 4:09 AM, John Case < jcase4218@gmail.com > wrote: Debunking the Putin Panic with Stephen F. Cohen Posted on   July 30, 2018   by   Yves Smith Yves here. Jerri-Lynn found   this Real News Network interview,   which is oddly not easy to locate on its site, but encouragingly, it has gotten a good level of views on YouTube. AARON MATE:  It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Mate. This is part two with Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton. In part one we talked about the uproar over the Trump-Putin summit, and Trump's comments about the U.S. intelligence community and about cooperation with Russia. Now in part two we're going to get to some of the main talking points that have been pervasive throughout corporate media, talking about the stated reasons for why pundits and politicians say they are opposed to Trump sittin...

Debunking the Putin Panic with Stephen F. Cohen Posted on   July 30, 2018   by   Yves Smith Yves here. Jerri-Lynn found   this Real News Network interview,   which is oddly not easy to locate on its site, but encouragingly, it has gotten a good level of views on YouTube. AARON MATE:  It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Mate. This is part two with Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton. In part one we talked about the uproar over the Trump-Putin summit, and Trump's comments about the U.S. intelligence community and about cooperation with Russia. Now in part two we're going to get to some of the main talking points that have been pervasive throughout corporate media, talking about the stated reasons for why pundits and politicians say they are opposed to Trump sitting down with Putin. So let me start with Jon Meacham. He is a historian. And speaking to CNN, he worried that Trump, with his comments about NATO calling on the ...

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All That's Left Is the Vote The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump's consolidation of power—and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn't matter. By   George Packer In the haze of summer, with books still to be read, weeds pulled, kids retrieved from camp, it's a little hard to fathom that, three months from now, American democracy will be on the line. The midterm elections in November are the last remaining obstacle to President Trump's consolidation of power. None of the other forces that might have checked the rise of a corrupt homegrown oligarchy can stop or even slow it. The institutional clout that ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon no longer exists. The honest press, for all its success in exposing daily scandals, won't persuade the unpersuadable or shame the shameless, while the dishonest press is Trump's personal amplifier. The federal courts, including the Supreme Court, are rapidly becoming instrum...