Carl Rabbat

Late ice sometimes sings.

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@_John_Handel Supplying church administrators?

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@Rory_Johnston The action here is tremendous, people. We’ve got deals you won’t wanna miss!

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@rbrtrmstrng I think it looks quite nice: happy and peachy, complimenting your sunny demeanor.

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@_John_Handel My worry isn't that students are being instrumental but not instrumental enough. Too many I interact with don't think you even need skills as such to get ahead, at least not those colleges offer.

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@gabrielwinant Wouldn't we get people then complaining that no one ever gets failed? And wouldn't the consequences of getting a fail be so bad that the binary wouldn't even be meaningful? I mean I went to a school with no grades, so it might just be better to skip to comments without pass/fail.

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@matthiasellis Wait, you mean *everything* that is solid melts into air??!

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@AlanSmithee1987 Is the clear-eyed Andersonian pragmatism performed in medias res though?

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@chrisokane_nyc And a my dad with whom I have an Oedipal relationship can beat up your dad with whom you have an Oedipal relationship thing, too.

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@_John_Handel Even if every ‘capitalist overlord’ took ethically-minded humanities classes, there’s no reason to expect 'maturation' when they're graded on mastering an academic essay genre, not acting ethically. Unless maturational limits = not writing term papers.

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@adam_tooze Isn’t a lot of this downstream from the Clinton/Carville moment? An entire generation of political actors thought they’d encountered some eternal gravitational force rather than a particular assemblage of forces and extrapolated a theodicy from it?

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@gabrielwinant Skeptical about that. Need a very very large glut? Oil would need to be more than cheap—need to be super & persistently cheap to affect invst decisions. At that point US shale gets wrecked too.

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@MattBruenig @BenBurgis @unherd Sure. But in his day, Sy Hersh was a PROBLEM.

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@GeorgeSelgin I guess I’m asking whether we can view BoE 1797- 1821 as analogous to all the Fed today. The BoE was still trying to achieve monetary stability then while not promising to convert sterling into gold, yet sterling remained a liability on its balance sheet. Quite similar to today?

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@TheStalwart Maybe hypocrisy is preferable to shamelessness?

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@irl_neil I just got halfway through his most recent book and honestly I had to stop in shock at how self-indulgent and even sociopathic it was.

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@NickTimiraos “I didn’t tell the Fed to cut 150bps. I just said publicly that they ought to cut 150bps. Big difference.”

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@_John_Handel The reply make it seem like conferences are deeply life-affirming experiences where REAL HUMANS are SPEAKING to each other.

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@_TimBarker The atrocity was going just fine until Trump came along and mishandled it.