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The Politics of Bad Faith

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Ted Cruz and Kevin Cramer introduced an amendment that would ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and it's worthy of examination because its structure reveals the utter stupidity and cynicism of the entire enterprise: The No Vaccine Mandates Act contains several important provisions to protect the health privacy...
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Interrogating Ethnography again

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Steve Lubet has an amusing and depressing little essay about the preposterous defenses some social scientists offer when confronted with evidence that dubious -- to put it mildly -- research methods appear to be common among ethnographers:  It had not previously occurred to me, however, that...
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The rational maximizers

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Hmmm, this is an interesting social experiment. As of now more than 675 colleges and universities in the USA are requiring proof of COVID vaccination as a condition of in-person attendance, and in many cases enrollment of any sort. This is posing the following conundrum for...
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