Alex Worsnip
@AWorsnip
Professor of Philosophy @UNC and Director of @UNC_AEP. Current work: rationality; political epistemology. Also baseball (@Orioles), music nerd.
Almost exactly a year ago, I took on the very tricky challenge of writing a piece about incoherence and structural irrationality for a lay audience. It's out in Aeon today, and I hope you'll consider reading it. Longer backstory in the thread below. aeon.co/essays/is-it-p…
FWIW, have heard from a person with deep knowledge of the Republican discussion. There is huge disquiet with the Gabbard choice and many Republicans would like to reject her…but no one knows if the senators will have the courage to stand up to Trump. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltwa…
For 1 yr only, the 8th Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop will (paradoxically) be in Montreal! Keynote by Jane Friedman + 7 talks chosen via open CFA. As usual, accepted papers eligible for Phil Studies special issue. Submissions due Oct 15th; more info at normativity.web.unc.edu
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Johnson: I'm going to strongly request the ethics committee not to issue a report because that is not the way we do things in the house. And I think that would be a terrible precedent..
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible "Insider Threat" by a fellow service member due to a tattoo he has that’s associated with white supremacists.
More evidence of the Republican party's ironclad commitment to free speech and viewpoint diversity
BREAKING: The "nonprofit killer" bill is back on track. H.R. 9495 has been set for a hearing MONDAY before the House Rules Committee, which could tee it up for a floor vote next week. The bill was largely designed to target pro-Palestine groups theintercept.com/2024/11/15/non…
RFK Jr. said during his campaign that he would stop research on drug development and infectious diseases for eight years.
A good moment to remember this tragedy — now potentially scaling up not just to the US, but globally as what we do here will reverberate in many places.
That time RFK Jr. caused a measles outbreak in Samoa leading to 83 deaths. Trump wants to put him in charge at HHS. pbs.org/newshour/show/…
Prayers out for the guy who said he voted for Trump for competence in government
Making RFK Jr. the head of HHS is the equivalent of making a guy who believes the moon landing was faked the head of NASA. He’s a bizarre, 10/10 crank who has joined forces with a dangerous, reactionary political force. What a nightmare.
Resigning from the House to escape imminent censure or removal by the House Ethics Committee for possibly criminal misbehavior, in order to have a clearer track for becoming Attorney General and head of federal law enforcement: an almost unbelievably perfect MAGA move. 1/2
Tulsi Gabbard is wholly unqualified to serve as DNI. She has absolutely no experience with the intelligence community and repeatedly parrots Putin and al-Assad talking points. Allowing her to lead US intelligence agencies would be detrimental to our national security.
Wow. Trump makes it official — Tulsi Gabbard is his nominee for Director of National Intelligence, as @JakeSherman reported earlier. This is gonna be a tough nominee for the Senate to confirm
The idea that Trump's program -- cumulatively bashing the Fed, raising tariffs, sending workers home, bloating budget deficits -- the idea that it is a highly inflationary program generates about as much consensus among people who follow economics as any proposition I can…
You can really tell in these appointments what Trump cares about*, and is willing to pay a price to achieve, and what he doesn't. *Using the government to punish his enemies, consolidating control of the US military.
SCOOP: Rep. Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress just two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a “highly damaging” report outlining its investigation into Gaetz, sources tell me @bresreports & @JakeSherman. The panel no longer has jurisdiction when he…
Trump still has the sauce. No one else could have made picks like these. Every selection is like drafting a kicker in the first round but the kicker has a Wikipedia section titled Allegations and is also not really a kicker
What did they expect? For Trump to just govern like an old-school Republican? Non-MAGA conservatives who supported and voted for Trump are not going to like what they see from this administration. Next up, Roseanne Barr for Secretary of State & Kanye West for Treasury Secretary.
Safe to say that GOP senators are stunned - not in a good way - on Matt Gaetz for Attorney General
Hey @BrandonWarmke, let me ask you straight up: 1)Do you think the claim that the 2020 election was stolen is false? 2)Do you think the claim that the COVID vaccine is less safe than getting COVID is false? 3)Do you think the claim that man-made climate change is a hoax is false?
Epistemologist wonders why Harris lost and suggests one big reason is that Republicans rely on "misinformation." It cannot be understated how many PhDs cannot fathom the possibility that people disagree with them because they actually understand and reject their ideas.