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Maya Sen

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Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4h

“Less qualified than an economist?” is legitimately a very funny response to someone calling RFK Jr unqualified

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you. It’s not that huge of a deal but I’m very happy to be moving in this direction at this stage of my career.

Reposted by Jane E. Fountain

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 16h

Happy to share that I’m now officially an affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School

Firmly believe law is where the most important conversations are happening, and am looking forward to building connections between law, policy, and politics. Thanks to those who helped make this happen!

Reposted by David Darmofal, Ariel White

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 16h

interesting!

Reposted by Jennifer Dill, Maya Sen, Nazita Lajevardi , and 1 more Jennifer Dill, Maya Sen, Nazita Lajevardi, Simon Lester

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

Otoh I have never once looked back at a letter I didn’t sign and say “boy I wish I had signed that!”

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

That is fair!

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

As they say “I wish her luck in her future endeavors” since she does seem to be auditioning for something!

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

It's not about her being really conservative (that's fine). It's just not a good piece.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

I think a problem with the piece is that universities needing to defend principles "even when doing so is inconvenient or costly" seems pretty unrelated to the issue of conservative speakers getting a cooler reception than they'd like

in fact, I can think of several better current examples...

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

to say that the "point of her story" is that universities have to "guarantee forums to explore a diversity of ideas safely and openly" is such a non sequitur that I have to assume that she's auditioning for a conservative outlet somewhere

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

Essay was a huge miss for me

Imagine still thinking woke university students are the real problem…if only!

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

He has tried strategic maneuvering before on contentious issues where the Court’s legitimacy may be at stake (ACA, Dobbs)

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

** Stares out the window thinking of Trump v US **

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said elsewhere that I am holding out some hope that Roberts and maybe one other conservative (I guess ACB) are playing a strategic long game and will in the end act to curb unconstitutional executive overreach

But man….

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

And one of the few substantive “analyses,” the Kavanaugh concurrence from Noem v. Perdomo, points to the latter

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d

Firmly believe this & fears of immediate executive defiance are a consideration for some of the conservative justices

The problem is that this observationally indistinguishable from substantive policy agreement with the Trump agenda

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Same

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Consistent with billionaires’ involvement in politics as well - because they have money, they think they know better than anyone else

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Rosemary A. Joyce, Sanford F. Schram , and 4 more Jan W. Mueller, Rosemary A. Joyce, Sanford F. Schram, Maya Sen, Melanie C. Green, Ann Bartow, Charles T. Mathewes

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

I think all this means is people who are are underpaid relative to their private sector market value

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

You can take issue with the subject matter, sure

But you should take issue with the fact that it’s a terribly written, uninsightful book

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Re: Jake Tapper, his Biden book was objectively one of the worst books I have read in years - bullet points strung together loosely by generic sentences. Repetitive.

No profound insights or interesting analysis. Like they had AI generate a book from their reporters’ notes.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 7d

Lawrence O’Donnell eviscerated the CNN star, dedicating nearly 10 minutes to trashing Jake Tapper and accusing him of giving Trump preferential treatment.

MSNBC Skewers CNN Host Over ‘Softball’ Trump Text Interview

Lawrence O’Donnell said his CNN counterpart would not have allowed Joe Biden to conduct an interview exclusively in writing.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

wild, & good for him

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

Oh that is good!

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

I’d probably look for a different doctor

Reposted by Chris Hanretty, Maya Sen

Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 4d

Oh to be working during the Islamic golden age

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...

The Islamic Empire heavily patronized scholars. The money spent on the Translation Movement for some translations is estimated to be equivalent to about twice the annual research budget of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.[18] The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today.[18] The House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur[19] in 825 modeled after the academy of Jundishapur.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

I think in general policymakers understand the value high end academics bring to society

But they will tolerate spending for it only if there is political and economic stability - they will not incur political costs for it

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yes. There’s that dimension, that will be bad as well. Without prestige, academics are sorely underpaid

I’m thinking about it from the perspective of policymakers and limited resources (both political and economic)