
Pratik Chougule
@pjchougule
Executive Director, @CoalitionPolFor. Host, @SSGamblers. Author of book American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy.
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https://brill.com/view/title/63192 14-12-2016 18:16:34
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Mamdani’s mother is a world-famous, Academy Award-nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia. He is, in effect, a perpetual theatre kid who’s pretending to be “Third World.” It’s all so, so performative + stupid.


Speaking as an open-borders, libertarian globalist, I think Donald J. Trump has been a net positive on the immigration issue. Pro-immigration policies have not polled well consistently. But due to Trump, a broad cross-section of center-left Americans—notably elites—embraced




"Nate Silver has set up this paradigm where he can never really be wrong." starspangledgamblers.libsyn.com/the-model-that…



Pratik Chougule There was briefly a pretty strong movement by a lot of mid tier state schools to make a push into the upper tier, around 2010 if you had a near-perfect SAT you could get a free ride a lot of places that subsequently climbed the rankings. Why it died down? Wokeness I guess?

Pratik Chougule Having participated in med school admissions it’s no exaggeration that the typical Ivy League kid has fallen off a cliff in terms of intelligence, I’d be curious if there were stats showing graduate schools accept fewer of them proportionally now.




