The Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Claudia Goldin. Most economists will immediately know why she won. This is a very quick thread, aimed at non-economists, explaining why her work on the the labour market outcomes of women has been awarded the Prize.

TPUSA is a hate group. This kind of harassment and violence has no place on university campuses. We have done everything we can to speak out against them; it's time for ASU to act to protect faculty and students. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

We are grateful for the national solidarity from leaders at AFT and American Association of University Professors. The attack on David Boyles by Turning Point USA representatives at ASU is an affront to academic freedom and the safety of LGBTQ+ faculty everywhere.

Students! The first event in the Barrett, The Honors College at ASU Conversation on Free Speech takes place Thursday, November 16th from 6:30-8pm at Vista Theater. Our debate prompt is: Is the right to free speech more important than protecting people from harmful or offensive content? Join us!

Very proud of my student, Sami Al-Asady, for being one of six students in the US selected to be a FIRE campus scholar! He helped me organize a successful Braver Angels campus debate last night on free speech. news.asu.edu/20231108-asu-h…

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According to this, @cigna approved a lung transplant for a cancer patient and then reversed course and denied it while the patient was being prepped for surgery. The health insurance industry is pure evil, top to bottom.

PRESS RELEASE: Senate & House Dems say no to grandstanding,   divisive committee attacking universities

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With my mother. Daddy’s funeral. He wasn’t assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.” But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism. He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn’t exist.

So many exciting opportunities for Barrett, The Honors College at ASU and Arizona State University students next year! Thanks to (HI), the Humanities Institute at ASU for making space for such fascinating collaborations.

Shame on Arizona State University Police Department - our students have a right to peacefully protest. Looking forward to the outcry from our campus's many champions of free speech

We are calling on Arizona University Presidents and the Board of Regents to reconsider the overly harsh academic consequences that have been brought down on student protestors and allies which undermine the principles of academic freedom and free speech.

‘To be a philosopher you need only three things: Eros, attention, acceptance.’ Gillian Rose, Paradiso

This is absolutely spot-on. It's sexy as fuck. Because men who are truly confident in their masculinity are so hot, whether it's patiently letting little nieces plaster their face in glittery stickers at a wedding or a bloke dressing up as a sexy woman for a laugh.

TODAY: Hundreds of thousands in Minnesota braved -10°F weather to march through downtown Minneapolis as part of the statewide general strike demanding ICE out of the Twin Cities.

Don’t look away. Read every one of these. America is torturing children and causing untold suffering that will last for generations.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber. This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency