Dan Nexon

@dhnexon.bsky.social

2140

Followers

1166

Following

1419

Posts

"'A man without a plan is not a man.' Nietzsche."

Professor in the Department of Government and SFS @ Georgetown.

I study international order, power politics, & empires.

dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com |

Posts Replies Media

Project 2025 should be called "Project 1929." It's not clear from the screenshot if merging the FDIC means eliminating its functions, but the next two paragraphs are truly terrifying; a wish list for people who think the problem with 2008 was that it *didn't* lead to a global depression.

Reply to

Daniel Roberts

Does this look like "outperforming" the national level polls?

Oh right I need to do another one. The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 4/20

Continuing with my loose interpretation of "one book per day." The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 3/20

Reply to

Dan Nexon

Explanation of the term courtesy of @albertsonb2.bsky.social and an abstract to what looks like a cool paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well, I remember to do this after only a gap of a week. The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 2/20

Reply to

Bijan Parsia

Well, I remember to do this after only a gap of a week. The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 2/20

Ok. I'll bite. Chances that I'll last 20 days? Low. The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 1/20 #booksky

Let's party like it's 2017-2021.

Reply to

Eric Rauchway

Apropos, my father wrote his dissertation on this 👇. Pretty sure the answer was “racism.”

HarrisX/Harvard has a new poll, the last round ran in May 15. Also no meaningful change, but this is too large a cap to tell us much about any debate effects. HarrisX/Harvard has been a bad poll for Biden, and this one is no different.

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

He was also about as coherent as he’s always been (here’s the other excerpt I meant to post from 2012). I just don’t see how he gets replaced in a way that doesn’t make things worse. But we’ll see how this shakes out.

It's fine for pundits to tell us what they thought (e.g., that Biden looked old and frail), but for ^&%^& sake don't tell us how "average" people will react or, worse, think that an argument is "persuasive" if it's dropped. This isn't policy debate.

Read the transcript. Watched some clips. This is the answer Biden's been getting the most heat for:

I debated in high school and college. I coached for a bit. I was pretty good. So, apropos of nothing, I'm just gonna say not only that these *aren't* debates, but it's a huge mistake to think of them as such. For example:

Compare it to these excerpts from the 2012 debate against Ryan:

I'm just gonna drop this here.... link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Reply to

Dan Nexon

So what about "sapping military strength?" This is a difficult case to make re: U.S. military budgets, which in real terms were largely flat (and off peak) during the Trump years.

Reply to

Dan Nexon

Overall, Thiessen’s column is a good example of the normalization of fascism in the broader GOP, in that it’s a completely normal piece of partisan hackery, albeit one written explicitly in the form of “I’ll take my chances with Trump because Biden’s such a disaster!”

Reply to

Dan Nexon

Thiessen also thinks that Trump’s strikes on Syria were effective and that his Iran policy was a success. Maybe killing Soleimani made Thiessen feel tough; in the real world Iran is a) more powerful in the Middle East and b) closer to having nuclear weapons it was when Trump assumed office.

Reply to

Dan Nexon

Is Thiessen a chump or a hack? You make the call.

Reply to

Dan Nexon

Biden’s speech, in fact, hews pretty well to this “traditional” meaning of isolationism. He’s talking about NATO, the defense of Europe, and the defense of democracies (especially in Europe) against attack. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Reply to

Dan Nexon

When we moved to the DC suburbs, we threw in the towel. Tried collars with bells. He got those off within 5 minutes. Lev was great (sincerely), but he was definitely a killing machine. Left everyone in the neighborhood headless “presents” @ their doors. All. The. Time. Don’t let your cat outside.

Caturday! Meet Bennu, who joined our household a year ago.

And meet Allani, his not-actual-sister. He is ~14 lbs. She is ~8 lbs. But he doesn’t know that.

Reply to

Dumbstash

That’s gotta be some hill. www.marketplace.org/2017/09/08/r...

Some witticisms are better left unquipped.

Reply to

Dan Nexon

👇👇👇 😳😳😳