Tag: Gorka

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 blogging about, but there’s one exception. In his series, Smith […]

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 that in mind

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Gorka on the Nunes Memo

By Dan Nexon

On January 29, 2018

Good night, and good luck.

Gorka’s Gotta Gorka

By Dan Nexon

In General

On January 8, 2018

I have some comments on the latest opinion piece by Dr. Sebastian v. Gorka, PhD. You can read the whole thread, if you so choose. This is clearly a work of very stable genius, by Dr. Sebastian v. Gorka, PhD. https://t.co/3mIt7UGAe2 — Dan Nexon (@dhnexon) January 8, 2018 But I will say this for him: at […]

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My Work Here is Done

By Dan Nexon

On August 25, 2017

Gorka apparently realized that he would never have any real responsibilities, and that his dream—of a fully synergized political-military superstate shouting “radical Islamic terrorism&

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Another Episode of the Amazing Adventures of Dr. Sebastian Gorka, PhD

By Dan Nexon

On August 1, 2017

EXCLUSIVE: Gorka says banal cliches, Breitbart treats him like Clausewitz. https://t.co/0tnlQp4NEq — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 31, 2017 I make it a general policy not to read Breitbart, b

I am So So Very Done with Sebastian v. Gorka’s Dissertation

By Dan Nexon

In General

On March 17, 2017

I promised a Part IV, but Foreign Policy asked me to do a piece for them… so I’m pointing you all there. You’ve seen some of the arguments before, but not all of them. For example, it turns out Gorka played a fast one with the—already extremely weak—evidence he uses in his efforts to show a trend toward […]

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The Gorka Dissertation, Part III

By Dan Nexon

On March 1, 2017

I wasn’t that enthusiastic about writing another installment. There’s only so much satisfaction from bashing an obvious vanity dissertation. But now I see that some right-wing media outl

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The Gorka Dissertation, Part II

By Dan Nexon

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

Sebastian Gorka’s Dissertation, Part I

By Dan Nexon

In General

On February 25, 2017

We should exercise caution when evaluating dissertations. Dissertations are not works of scientific perfection. I finished mine in a marathon month, as I was pushing the deadline for retaining my position at Georgetown. Even the substantially revised book that emerged from contains a handful of truly embarrassing historical errors. In other words, I think it would […]

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