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Bryan McGraw

@bryantmcgraw

Political theorist at Wheaton College, dad, husband, marginally skilled home renovator and lover of all things BBQ

Katılım Nisan 2013
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Robert P. George@McCormickProf·
I don’t see any way to interpret President Trump's "prediction" that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as other than a threat to order the military to commit crimes against civilians. If he issues such an order, it will be the duty of military leaders to refuse to comply.
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Bryan McGraw
Bryan McGraw@bryantmcgraw·
Christ is Risen!!!
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@markdtooley@markdtooley·
From Jimmy Lai, Catholicism’s most prominent prisoner of conscience, in a letter from jail where he has spent over 1,800 days in solitary confinement: Why is my mood not down at all, sometimes even quite lighthearted? I guess because so many people whom I have never even met have been praying for me is the main reason. I am always in God’s presence because of their prayers, I am so thankful . . . I am actually most grateful to God to have put me through this suffering in order for me to get closer to His presence. What a joy and treasure for this life and next. God’s action always confounds us but turns out to be marvelous for us.
First Things@firstthingsmag

Via Crucis, 2026 by George Weigel firstthings.com/via-crucis-202…

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Daniel Bennett
Daniel Bennett@danielrbenn·
Not joking: I will be including this exchange on an exam the next time I teach Religion and Politics, asking students to evaluate the latter statement in light of history and empirical evidence.
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Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke@Rob_ADFIntl·
BREAKING: Scotland’s Parliament has rejected the McArthur assisted suicide bill by 69-57 votes. MSPs looked at the evidence, listened to the medical profession, and voted to protect the vulnerable. This is a historic day for the sanctity of life. 🧵👇
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Bryan McGraw
Bryan McGraw@bryantmcgraw·
@Tyler_A_Harper The Soviets thought about reversing the course of rivers in Siberia - think the idea died only in something like 1985 or 86.
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
I do feel compelled to point out this isn’t actually the worst idea anyone has had involving the non-military use of nuclear weapons. It’s really bad, but not the worst.
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Newt Gingrich@newtgingrich

Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. chinatalk.media/p/its-time

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Philip Bunn
Philip Bunn@PhilipDBunn·
What I’ve learned from this Predictive History/“Professor Jiang” guy is that I could make bank on YouTube if I just filmed myself scribbling incoherently on a white board while I’m lecturing aimlessly.
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James M. Patterson
James M. Patterson@McGillPatterson·
No, AI can do some social science research but not all of it. Those of us in qualitative, historical, and normative work are fine. AI can't do ethnography. It cannot recover and work through archives. It certainly cannot work through normative work. It's the quants who are losing, and a lot of disciplines and departments have, as it turns out, overinvested in quants.
Alexander Kustov@akoustov

AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.

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James M. Patterson
James M. Patterson@McGillPatterson·
@kvallier No, but value theory seems like precisely the kind of methodology on the chopping block for AI. Even so, AIs have a lot of assumptions artificially built into their code, so it's hard to say if one can rely on it.
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James Diddams
James Diddams@JamesDiddams·
My Iran prediction: a month of missile strikes, followed by Trump declaring victory regardless of whatever has actually been achieved.
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Bryan McGraw
Bryan McGraw@bryantmcgraw·
@cwellmon What do you think this will do to R1's tenure and promotion model?
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chad wellmon
chad wellmon@cwellmon·
Machine-Human-Human-Machine is tangential. The institutional effects are where it’s at: “A single academic is going to be able to write thousands of empirical papers (esp survey experiments or LLM experiments) per year. Claude Code can already essentially one-shot a full AJPS.”
Andy Hall@ahall_research

Claude Code and its ilk are coming for the study of politics like a freight train. A single academic is going to be able to write thousands of empirical papers (especially survey experiments or LLM experiments) per year. Claude Code can already essentially one-shot a full AJPS-style survey experiment paper (with access to Prolific API). We'll need to find new ways of organizing and disseminating political science research in the very near future for this deluge.

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Neil Stone
Neil Stone@DrNeilStone·
Four years ago exactly This iconic video of Zelensky and his team the morning after Putin's invasion, standing their ground when everyone predicted they would run Inspirational 🇺🇦
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Christopher Frey
Christopher Frey@FreyChristopher·
I have 3 giant binders full of CDs. I haven’t listened to any of them in well over a decade. I don’t even own anything that could play them. So why can’t I bring myself to throw them out?
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Bryan McGraw
Bryan McGraw@bryantmcgraw·
@IVMiles Reminds me of a reading group in grad school where we slogged through Milbank's Theology and Social Theory and one guy remarked at the end, "oh, so he's just a fundamentalist!" Not quite true, but...
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Miles Smith IV
Miles Smith IV@IVMiles·
In the aftermath of the Fundamentalist/Modernist controversy, there’s an argument to made that Fundamentalists weren’t so much quietists as they were convinced that the church was the only validating form of human association. Dispensationalism just strengthened that conviction.
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Bryan McGraw
Bryan McGraw@bryantmcgraw·
I'll just offer my long-held view: halftime shows should be marching bands.
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Drew
Drew@drewdyck·
Gotta say it feels good being a never Trumper this morning.
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Patrick T. Brown
Patrick T. Brown@PTBwrites·
In 2015, "pro-choice" beat out "pro-life" by two percentage points (49 to 47). A decade later, that divide is now a 25 percentage point chasm, 62 to 37. 1 in 10 of Americans thought abortion should always be legal for any time and for any reason in 2015; today, it's 1 in 3.
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Thabiti Anyabwile
Thabiti Anyabwile@ThabitiAnyabwil·
This is a grotesque twisting of scripture to justify something scripture plainly condemns. The Angel does not ask a single question of Mary in Luke 1. There’s no question implying consent. And even if there were, it’s consent to receive life not to kill it. Mary isn’t pregnant.
RNC Research@RNCResearch

Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico says the Bible is pro-choice. TALARICO: "The Angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do...to me that is an affirmation..."

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Drew
Drew@drewdyck·
Will have to edit slightly. I only have three kids.
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Drew
Drew@drewdyck·
Gonna use this for my bio.
Byron York@ByronYork

You really can't make this up. From the new Vogue profile of Gavin Newsom: 'Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence...lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque. Add to that his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire.' vogue.com/article/gavin-…

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