Marstrand

While Anna stayed behind grading student papers yesterday, I took my parents and the kids back to Marstrand for a day that almost felt like the last summer day despite it already being November. With cooler temperatures and possibly snow expected later this week, it felt extra good to soak up the sunshine as we walked along the sea.

Today, it is back to reality big time with another course in quantitative methodology and a bunch of thesis proposals to comment on. 

At least I feel quite inspired after reading Susan Neiman’s book "Left is not woke" over the weekend. Echoing many of Stephen Eric Bronner's ideas (I was surprised to not find him cited), I could not agree more with some of its conclusions:

“Of course woke activists seek solidarity, justice, and progress. Their struggles against discrimination are animated by those ideas. But they fail to see that the theories they embrace subvert their own goals. Without universalism there is no argument against racism, merely a bunch of tribes jockeying for power. And if that’s what political history comes to, there is no way to maintain a robust idea of justice. But without commitments to increasing universal justice, we cannot coherently strive for progress.”