some time in the next week, i'm going to write something interesting involving jonah goldberg, michael spagat, george w. bush, and the useful persistence of fake "scientific" debates.
but now i have to go explain to my committee that i'm not comfortable being "very explicit...about the variation to be explained," because i haven't estimated the descriptives yet and nobody's studied this before.
life is hard when your discipline wants a causal argument, hell or high water, whether the empirics are trustable or not. maybe i'll pretend to Just Know what the range of variation is and see if they catch me.
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by day a political scientist! by night a significantly less intellectually responsible political scientist!
amelia.hoover@[university].edu
welcome to my blog. i'm a ph.d. candidate in political science at yale, a native midwesterner, and a happy californian. right now my research is about armed organizations and how they organize their violence against noncombatants, or fail to. i'm also interested in intentional community, gender in the academy, grad school pedagogy, fat politics, the religious left, my partner, our local farmers' market and idiosyncratic capitalization practices.