dissertations

Mendacity or Ineptitude?

By Dan Nexon

On December 21, 2020

When I write a long post, there are inevitably things that get left on the table. Sometimes the omissions are deliberate. Sometimes they're inadvertent. My discussion of right-wing attacks on Dr. Jill Biden's thesis involves both kinds of missing material. Most of it isn't worth...

academia , intelligence , self-immolition

Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D.

By Dan Nexon

On December 20, 2020

Jill Biden does not have a PhD. She has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. It's an applied doctorate, designed to certify rising administrators in the field of education. Just keep.

General

Carter Page: I Can Haz Dissertation, Plz?

By Dan Nexon

On December 22, 2017

If Carter Page's career weren't devoted to self-enrichment via deals with oligarchs and kleptocrats, I might feel some sympathy for him. After all, it seems like his every appearance in.

The Gorka Dissertation, Part II

By Dan Nexon

In General

On February 25, 2017

I In my prior post, I tried to make clear that you don't need to get very far—less than twenty pages, in fact—into Gorka's dissertation to recognize its academic shoddiness. Something like 7% of it is a cut-and-paste job from an earlier article. In of itself, that's...