Sounds like a populist politician in the making. You guys should love him.
Yusuke Narita in the NY Times
-
^ all the snakes here celebrating the hits to his career prospects show why woke is so powerful. It’s just an excuse for settling interpersonal scores, as is most civil war violence. Another Yale professor Stathis Kalyvas has a great book on this phenomenon
Nah we aren't celebrating it. He brought it upon himself... And this is not a woke vs not woke thing either.
-
^ all the snakes here celebrating the hits to his career prospects show why woke is so powerful. It’s just an excuse for settling interpersonal scores, as is most civil war violence. Another Yale professor Stathis Kalyvas has a great book on this phenomenon
Nah we aren't celebrating it. He brought it upon himself... And this is not a woke vs not woke thing either.
I’m using “Woke” as code for illiberalism. His political activism should have no bearing on his tenure prospects.
-
What an embarrassment for Yale
No it’s not. What happened to academic freedom? He should be able to mouth off, that’s what universities are for.
He is free to make an ass of himself. Yale should support this freedom. Yale must be embarrassed at how he uses this freedom.
-
Also, forgetting his politics, he’s a joke of a researcher. He has some top pubs with his advisors, but he has no independent high-quality work, no agenda, and no academic subfield in which he would be viewed as any kind of expert. Junior hiring is always a gamble, but I’m sure people at Yale would view his hiring as a gamble that didn’t pan out.
-
Who cares about the camel guy?
What an embarrassment for Yale
No it’s not. What happened to academic freedom? He should be able to mouth off, that’s what universities are for.
My friend D1ck agrees
https://twitter.com/richardhanania/status/1624774516529573889
Also let’s not do a huwhite colonialism. There is cultural precedent in Japan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute -
the Angrist comment is a super lame one on many levels:
1. it's a dumb cop out. you can be for or against YN's idea, but the idea that Japan's demographic problem is not a huge fiscal challenge for the state, or the broader society, in a way that also reflects on problems the US and many other advanced economies will face, is crazy. making a thought-provoking/intelligent contribution to public debate about this problem (not saying YN did) is potentially way more important than any dumb theory paper in a top 5 journal that nobody will read or care about. JA taking a stand and substantively disagreeing w YN would have been valid. saying "this debate is a trivial distraction" is not.
2. why is a powerful nobel-prize winner snidely putting down a former student like this in the NYT? he could have declined to comment or said something privately to YN. it's super disloyal, and very kiss-up-kick-down. this profession...
-
the Angrist comment is a super lame one on many levels:
1. it's a dumb cop out. you can be for or against YN's idea, but the idea that Japan's demographic problem is not a huge fiscal challenge for the state, or the broader society, in a way that also reflects on problems the US and many other advanced economies will face, is crazy. making a thought-provoking/intelligent contribution to public debate about this problem (not saying YN did) is potentially way more important than any dumb theory paper in a top 5 journal that nobody will read or care about. JA taking a stand and substantively disagreeing w YN would have been valid. saying "this debate is a trivial distraction" is not.
2. why is a powerful nobel-prize winner snidely putting down a former student like this in the NYT? he could have declined to comment or said something privately to YN. it's super disloyal, and very kiss-up-kick-down. this profession...well I don't think culling the old is a serious contribution and this has nothing to do with wokeness