David Bateman

Democratization is the enduring task of America. It's what it has always needed to do, and that remains true today.

My paper “Did Slavery Impede the Growth of American Capitalism? Two Natural Experiments Using Farm Values per Acre” has now been revised. An event study of abolition and an RDD of the free-slave state border both suggest that slavery raised farm values in the South. 1/16

@SidneyRothstein Exit Souls

Signature verification on mail in ballots is, paradoxically, even dumber since it cuts out the step of “well let me try it again sometimes I just do a swirl”

@dawn_teele @womensmarch Not even ‘64????

This happened to me in 2022. Took a while but got there in the end.

Guess we’re gonna find out if high turnout still helps dems

the we didn't commit that crime we committed this other crime defense

Holy fucking shit. Elon Musk's legal defense to why his $1M giveaway wasn't an illegal lottery/sweepstakes under Pennsylvania law is ... "ignore everything Elon said about this being random; we actually carefully selected the winners." 🤯 reuters.com/legal/judge-we…

Given the volume of extant scholarship and journalism on the administrative and legal dismantling of faculty governance for decades, this is would be an embarrassing story to publish in a high school newspaper.

@Cornell How is this message compatible with @Cornell’s newly adopted “institutional neutrality” posture? To vote or not is at least as politically charged a choice as for whom to vote. Who is making decision about which political choices to weigh in on?

RT @Cornell: Election Day in the United States is tomorrow, so make a plan and get out to vote, Cornellians. For resources related to voti…

The final @UniNoticias poll in this cycle is a Latino Pensilvania poll. Lots of Interneting questions and finding. See below and share with your networks univision.com/noticias/elecc…

Here is our detailed response to the so-called Temporary Standards for Campus Events, which aim to strip faculty, staff, and students of our rights to assemble, speak, and protest by erecting a thicket of unreasonable restrictions🧵 aaup-penn.org/statement-of-t…

BREAKING: Harvard Libraries suspended ~25 faculty members from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they held a silent “study-in” protest there last week — an extraordinary sanction by Harvard against its own faculty. @neilhshah15 reports. thecrimson.com/article/2024/1…

Rep. Nick LaLota, running for reelection in up-for-grabs NY-01, was one of the signers of this letter, demanding an explanation from the Naval Academy for inviting NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat to give a history department lecture, after pressure from Heritage Foundation because of her anti-Trump opinions. Ben-Ghiat told The Baltimore Banner her planned lecture was not going to mention Trump or contemporary politics at all, but rather was about what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule. The letter from the Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee echoed Heritage Foundation fellows, and editorials in the Heritage Foundation's The Daily Signal.

As controversies go, it was easy to miss this one. It all took place within the conservative media ecosystem. But it could foreshadow what might happen to the U.S. service academies if Trump is elected next month. thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column…

because no one cares about canadian politics it’s very hard to explain the strangeness of what’s going on. The government says there are sitting parliament members actively colluding with Russian agents. But they can’t release their names so as not to compromise intel methods.

Cornell University backs down on threat to revoke Momodou Taal's visa. A significant victory for free speech but the fight continues.

CAS at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor. We're particularly interested in scholars working in black feminism, black sexualities, and/or queer studies. apply.interfolio.com/155861

Feels surreal the way elites in US media, universities, business, etc go after Gaza activists. Just flagrantly violating the exact norms and rights—like honesty, due process, tolerance of different views, good faith, and impartiality—that they claim to care about.