1/ Today is Winter Solstice. We
WAKE UP to the DARKEST DAY of the Year.

2/ but hey, it’s 2020! So?
3/ this year, for the first time in 800 years, we have the same SKY EVENT that WISE men traversed and followed in ~4 BCE.

The CHRISTMAS STAR illuminating our way.... https://t.co/p0vqEn9x6o
4/ ... seeking, with COURAGE, to find WISDOM.
5/ Many of us have been AWAKE for several years, AWAITING the BIRTH of a NEW NATION...

an END to the Corruption, and a Govt once again By the People, For the People, Of the People.

HOW LONG do we WAIT for a BIRTH?

Ob/gyn's inform us it's
9 mo.
280 days.
hmmmm⤵️
6/ March 16, 2020 was the first day to Slow the Spread.
Our New Nation's CONCEPTION date?

With our NEW BIRTH DATE coming on WinterSolstice 12/20/20?
Birth = emerging from DARK to LIGHT?

Conception date = Conceived.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
CONCEIVED in Liberty
7/ the Wise Men's CHRISTMAS STAR appears today. We Celebrate the Wise Men's visit and Gift presentation to the Christ Child on Epiphany, Jan 6.

Epiphany = also a DARK to LIGHT DAy.
= a "light bulb moment" of Realization. https://t.co/x1fWlcmkFY
8/ We are also in between Hanukkah, 12/10-12/18, a celebration of DARK to LIGHT and a FULL MOON COMING Dec 29.

Today, Winter Solstice starts PHASE III of the Moon, before the Dec 29 coming Full Moon.

What's Phase III you ask?
https://t.co/5g1Nct3DL3
https://t.co/yQrD6cXwGQ

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There is some valuable analysis in this report, but on the defense front this report is deeply flawed. There are other sections of value in report but, candidly, I don't think it helps us think through critical question of Taiwan defense issues in clear & well-grounded way. 1/


Normally as it might seem churlish to be so critical, but @cfr is so high-profile & the co-authors so distinguished I think it’s key to be clear. If not, people - including in Beijing - could get the wrong idea & this report could do real harm if influential on defense issues. 2/

BLUF: The defense discussion in this report does not engage at the depth needed to add to this critical debate. Accordingly conclusions in report are ill-founded - & in key parts harmful/misleading, esp that US shldnt be prepared defend Taiwan directly (alongside own efforts). 3/

The root of the problem is that report doesn't engage w the real debate on TWN defense issues or, frankly, the facts as knowable in public. Perhaps the most direct proof of this: The citations. There is nothing in the citations to @DeptofDefense China Military Power Report...4/

Nor to vast majority of leading informed sources on this like Ochmanek, the @RANDCorporation Scorecard, @CNAS, etc. This is esp salient b/c co-authors by their own admission have v little insight into contemporary military issues. & both last served in govt in Bush 43. 5/

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x