Maya Sen
@maya_sen
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Professor @Harvard Kennedy School | JD/PhD | Author, most recently of The Judicial Tug of War https://t.co/XMo4mc0nxh | 🏖️🍿🦖
Joined January 2010
RT @WSJ: Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files .
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Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.
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Really important point here - regular people care way more about the cost and value-added of higher ed than any cultural wars nonsense. Universities need to go hard on this -> grants cuts from the Trump admin will, if anything, make the cost of college go up.
It is good to be aware of how vacuous and out of touch these Manhattan Institute demands are. When polling actual people with low confidence in higher ed, the most common responses are: too expensive (21%), don't teach practical skills (21%), too liberal (17%).
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hot take: we're overestimating the positive societal impact of AI, but grossly underestimating the potential impact of GLP-1 drugs.
New newsletter: We need to talk about how GLP-1 drugs seem to be good for practically everything—and what that means for the future of medicine and health. Hundreds of studies have now shown that GLP-1s, such as Ozempic and Zepbound:.- seem to curb alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco
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RT @ForecasterEnten: A new low for Trump, as the USS Donald Trump takes on a lot of water. His net approval has dropped 17 pt since January….
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Lots of tough but very fair academic political scientists would be willing to do an elections audit for the DNC. And the end result would be better & more useful than whatever this is.
The DNC is going to release a review of the 2024 campaign that absolves Biden and Harris of any blame and instead criticizes an outside group for not explicitly breaking the law
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I also think that introducing yet more “soft metrics” into admission feeds into right-wing grievances over hyper-competitive undergrad admissions to elite universities. Begging my fellow academics to return to basics - test scores, grades & courses taken, recommendation letters.
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A lot of this stuff teaches future leaders that they shouldn’t vigorously defend correct positions in the face of significant attack, or stick to their convictions. And this isn’t a right-left thing either! acrimonious disagreement is how politics works sometimes!.
This is genuinely nuts to me. The point of argument isn’t to be respectful, it’s to be *right*! It makes a mockery of the truthseeking process.
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“Constructive disagreements,” “learning how to disagree” etc are super en vogue in universities right now as a way to try to deal with attacks from the right and toughen up students. But, boy, I gottta say that I think these efforts are going to age like fine milk.
I wrote about the civility mania sweeping elite college admissions for @nytopinion
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RT @ernietedeschi: Headline CPI at 0.29% MM, Core CPI at 0.23% MM, roughly in line with expectations. The impact of tariffs is becoming m….
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RT @kylegriffin1: Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT BLOCKS JUDGE'S ORDER THAT HALTED TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM GUTTING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
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Really sad to hear this. Fallon took a chance on me to head TA his undergraduate Con Law class back in grad school. It was a privilege to learn from one of the best instructors in the business. This is a shock. My sincere condolences to his family, friends, and HLS colleagues.
Devastated to learn of the death of Dick Fallon, a beloved friend and colleague, and a model of a good and kind human being. (A reminder to tell people you love that you love them.).
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: Periodic reminder that both Ivy League admissions and federal research training grants provide big bonuses for rural a….
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This could be window dressing, as the anonymous admin official says here, but it could easily not be. Some of Harvard’s research centers are very influential engines of research and teaching - but it depends heavily on how they’re run and $$. Gift link:
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The Ivy League university has discussed an effort to “support viewpoint diversity” with potential donors and says the initiative “will not be partisan.”
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the administration’s goals are unclear - antisemitism? Racial discrimination against whites? Ideological diversity? . Unclear. but if expanding ideological diversity is one, having a center that drives research, cluster faculty hiring, & training future leaders is a great start.
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This idea has been floated around for a while, and I think is a good one. But: I think it would have been better to do this maybe 15-20 years ago before educational polarization became so severe & the center-right collapsed
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RT @BBCWorld: Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says
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Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed while queuing outside a clinic in the central town of Deir al-Balah.
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