Calvin TerBeek

Asst Prof at Claremont McKenna College 24-25. Postdoc UVA. PhD (UChicago) / JD (Tulane). American politics

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

As many note, these are quite outrageous. This from Darity, MacLean and Camara (*very* well known researchers in their area!) is so misleading I would fail a student who tried this on a term paper. #7 on my eight rule catechism for trust in universities: https://t.co/asUT7zMNFl

[Calvin TerBeek @CTerbeek]

Now makes me question The Globalists (a book I really liked)

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

That Matt Stoller longs for the age of Dixiecrats is well-known, that he longs for the age of women being shoved out of public life is another dimension to his reactionary economic and political views.

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

Tenure Committees Are Too Tolerant of Mediocrity https://t.co/yZTaU7Boii

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

So funny that for California governor, the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed billionaire Tom Steyer, whose resume includes Stanford MBA, Morgan Stanley, Goldman, private-equity, and hedge-fund founder whose firm invested in private prisons and coal.

[Matt Burgess @matthewgburgess]

.@Musa_alGharbi and @robkhenderson will love this paper.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

And when a law professor publishes false or Frankfurtian BS material, that is given the imprimatur of "scholarship" and improperly attaches institutional prestige to a piece of agitprop.

It's bad for academia, for the law, and for the public.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

Obviously you can never eliminate bias and the file drawer problem in academia, but law professors are lawyers and this makes it worse, because they act like litigation attorneys who unlike professors have a professional obligation to say stuff we do not believe in.

[Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood]

IRBs are unaccountable boards that largely protect institutions from reputational harm and incidentally protect human subjects.

This is a very reasonable statement: https://t.co/5ct7jnZjKj

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I’ve said this before, but I really wish judges would stop writing like this. That includes SCOTUS. I blame Scalia.

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

LOL but also this is the thing: we should be able to say that perfect objectivity/neutrality is impossible AND teach and embody the importance of trying to achieve it in teaching and research, for our students, our readers, etc

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

And if you see a drunk bird??

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Part of the reason I don't trust the heavily online, progressive-groups-defenders is that so many of them are liars who continually say things that aren't true. They do this because they care more about winning internet points than influencing the real world.

[Lawrence Solum @lsolum]

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses. Legal Theory Blog is at https://t.co/D2xkWnXYwX. The Legal Theory Lexicon is at https://t.co/v7ihNBHjIo. Thanks in advance for you help.

[Dan Epps @danepps]

This @RollingStone piece by @AndrewLSeidel is embarrassing. A judge must recuse from any case in which he actually participated, not from all cases involving *legal issues* on which he ever took a position as an attorney on behalf of a client.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

Scummy behavior from Watts. The full quote *in the video she is embedding*, which she selectively edits the transcript of:

"I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn't be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country..."

She cuts out "another state." Come on, man.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct."

[Rick Pildes @RickPildes]

Bob Bauer, Sam Issacharoff, and I have launched The Democracy Project at NYU. We begin with a series of 100 essays in 100 days from US and international figures of diverse ideological views and experiences.
Our first 3 essays now live are highly provocative, from Frances Lee, Randy Kennedy, and Nick Bagley.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Dr. Gunther isn't impressed by the evidentiary standards in Abundance. But her own book, "The Language of Climate Politics" is full of incredibly blatant lies and statistical misrepresentations. Last year George Morrison at Breakthrough wrote about a few of them. 🧵

[Calvin TerBeek @CTerbeek]

@sahnicboom @ClaytonNall Hirsch gets a lot wrong. See https://t.co/WqbU4mjEVG