#Intellectual

There’s so much bad scholarship and commentary out there, including by BIPOC scholars who claim to be anti-racist, that is underpinned by uninterrogated race/ist science I live tweeted my read
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Have been trying to stay out of the Sean Wilentz/Tom Cotton debate about the supposedly antislavery potential of the Constitution, but a ton of people have emailed me this week
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Ever wondered why Marathas, Sikhs, Muslims, Jats, Ahirs, Gujjars, Ahoms, Socialists, Left, Right, some Southerners, or even some Brahmins can't stop attacking Rajputs? Wondered what purpose does it solve for
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1. What a journey it’s been, @PeteButtigieg: a 38-year-old, gay, former mayor of a midsized, Midwestern city in #Indiana who rose from obscurity to presidential frontrunner in less than one
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One of the last lines of defense against critiques of capitalism is that despite all of its flaws & shortcomings, at least capitalism fosters unprecedented innovation.But, as we will prove
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Here is why IQ is bullshit. A thread. A recent paper in @PsychScience relied on national differences in IQ that held that the average IQ of some countries is below
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It’s February 21, International Mother Language Day. LET’S POLITICIZE THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGE LOSS /thread/ Do what? To begin with, you need to know that AT LEAST 50% of
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Good morning all and a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Today you turn 30. I'll be writing a love letter to you throughout tomorrow, but for
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SO I ALSO got a thinclient which has one (1) neat feature.Check it out, it's an HP thin client. Looks boring, right? Round the back, we've got the usual stuff.
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I’m not sure if this is the granularity you are expecting. Some of these concepts are bigger than others. I invented exactly none of them. The list is not exhaustive.
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Why $RTP/Reinvent Tech Partners is my largest pre-target SPAC holding!- Led by Reid Hoffman & Mark Pincus- Prolific VCs & serial entrepreneurs- $690 million raised- Targeting tech sector (AI, autonomous
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The #Mughal period in India is known for a court sponsored programme of translation from #Sanskrit and attempts to translate Indic metaphysics into the idiom of #Sufism and #Persianate #IslamicPhilosophy
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In astrology from the medieval Islamic world, Venus in the various zodiac signs spell out the fortunes of a person in love. But the significations of Venus also tell us
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(ii). "oh we invented Algebra. It is Halal" Ad-homniem & Red-herring at best. This bigoted comment exposes typical sanghi attitude of @BharadwajSpeaks here who's biased & nit-picking in his thread.
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I took this photo of my @chronicle colleagues during Trump's inaugural address 4 years ago. We were all on the cusp of a paradigm shift. You could feel that. Trump
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Welcome to #IPThursday !! The following thread deals with the issue of so called “Image Rights”. Specifically, can you prevent someone from using a photo of you, even if they
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