Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@contrary1un @besttrousers @mattyglesias Theda Skocpol isn't a conservative. She's a famous sociologist. The quote comes from her excellent book, Diminished Democracy. https://t.co/AL810ur7KT

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@JGAMPHO @tylercowen Really the Paretian view is just the normal public economics view. Applied to politics, could try James Buchanan or David Gauthier. Nonzero and Evolution of God by @robertwrighter are fun too. I'd also just try some of what I link to. Of course there's also Heath's new book.

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The Mummy is my generation's Citizen Kane so I couldn't be more excited for Brendan Fraser's big comeback in what sounds like an Orson Welles biopic https://t.co/FhY1p0Dnnh

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@GreenPlusAnE @lastpositivist If I had to guess, this is picking up the resurgence of interest in Hegel due to the influence of philosophers like Charles Taylor, Richard Bernstein, Richard Rorty and Robert Brandom.

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My favorite sci-fi author growing up was Orson Scott Card, best known for the Ender’s Game series. Card is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It surprised me at first, though in retrospect it should’ve been obvious. https://t.co/M3hwLVa20I

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Loved this @RuleandRuin podcast convo with Michael Mazarr of RAND on his major new report on "The Societal Foundations of National Competitiveness," America's decline, and how to, well... Make America Great Again. https://t.co/zxDgKEjjAN

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My favorite sci-fi author growing up was Orson Scott Card, best known for the Ender’s Game series. Card is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It surprised me at first, though in retrospect it should’ve been obvious. https://t.co/M3hwLVa20I

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One of dangers of normative theories like utilitarianism / consequentialism is that they supply a rich toolkit for excusing violations of common sense morality. Take Peter Singer's defense of Noble Lies: https://t.co/LuqHc4ClCy https://t.co/0UTHvtxp4o

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Matilda is a pro-natalist parable about the under-diagnosis of autism in girls, the trauma caused by the education system, the value of gifted and talented programs, and the totalitarianism latent in Tall Poppy Syndrome.

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@Robert_t_Orr @SenatorRomney @MittRomney @SteveDaines @SenatorBurr @CenterOnBudget In June, the Atlanta Fed released a model to quantify marriage penalties across the entire tax and benefit system. They found the fiscal system "is keeping almost 14 percent of low-income young females with children from getting married in a given year." https://t.co/FQ26tl0AMB