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@OilfieldSlang @mtmrk03 @dilanesper There are good reasons to get an epidural and good reasons to skip it. I wouldn’t conflate that choice with avoiding necessary medical attention during birth.

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@MercuriusFilius Start both. When the four minute runs out, turn the seven minute over. When that runs out four minutes later, use the four minute a final time. 4x3=12

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@jonathanbfine Where did she do her undergraduate work? If you don’t want to name names, please give us a sense. Some colleges seem to be an extension of middle-school book reports.

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@dilanesper Your property professor failed you.

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@FreyChristopher Interesting incentive structure. It will make sense for some people to retire a few years early to qualify.

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@HistoryBoomer I took “European Intellectual History” at Brown in the mid-90s. It was “comprehensive” because it spanned Habermas to Marx.

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@asymmetricinfo How do we count people who are literate in their native language but not in English? It matters for public policy initiatives if 5% of your adult population reads Spanish and not English, but it’s not an inducement of the school system.

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@jadler1969 Or any lawyer who believes that states are real entities and not just faded lines between parking spaces.

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Maybe SCOTUS will take the Commonwealth of Virginia’s redistricting appeal and certify the question on Virginia constitutional law to the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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@EdWhelanEPPC Why not try the Court of Justice of the European Union?

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@OrinKerr Better to identify and describe or explore the source of the disagreement. Many stem from different factual priors. I love an article that says, if X is true, Y. For those who believe Not X, W follows more naturally.

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@CollegeFix The protestors were not encouraged to engage their fellow students “with respect and care.”

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@Bwilly90 @dilanesper It’s not about respecting the speaker. We have to respect the would-be listener. It’s easy to protest without interfering with the audience’s ability to listen and engage.

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@dilanesper Can you say more about what you see as the right of center view of sex? Most people on the right I know: Sex should be in committed relationships, above all certain age, with consent. The long term goal is monogamy in marriage, but few expect virginity on the wedding day.

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@an_average_bear @dilanesper I named the two main signals, which is not denying or forgetting the rest. Even a brilliant writing sample won’t be read unless the applicant makes it to the finals.

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@dilanesper I will promote my top students regardless of legal philosophy, to be clear. But some left profs view all students on the right as inherently intellectually inferior or possibly dangerous.

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@dilanesper Students applying for clerkships have two main signals: grades and prof recs. When 98.2% of your professors are far left, Fed Soc types don’t always get the prof recs they should. Fed Soc helps identify top candidates because there is a need—the judges need more info.

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@anup_malani @GalorOded Joseph Heinrich’s “The WEIRDest People in the World” is, among other things, a fascinating look at how testing for universal traits of human nature using Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) college students will be misleading.

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@asymmetricinfo I’m sure that’s true, but I stand by my view that most journalists should be historians. That would solve almost everything. Instead, many are the opposite of historians—policy majors who are excited by “new” ideas.

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@kristinatastic Smarties pant.