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		<title>Polls and Partisanship</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/11/polls-and-partisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent poll found that 37% of evangelicals are more likely to vote for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore&#160;following&#160;allegations of sexual misconduct against him. That makes for a nice clickbait headline. It sounds appalling, and it is&#160;appalling, though perhaps not for the reasons one might think. First, some details on the poll itself: it was [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/11/polls-and-partisanship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Polarization, heuristics, and the 24 hour news cycle</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/polarization-heuristics-and-the-24-hour-news-cycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skeptics of the democratic ideal of self governance often point to the almost laughable impracticality of the vision. People are simply bad at being knowledgeable and making well-informed judgements. Notably, this concern needn&#8217;t inherently be a slight. While the most elitist of skeptics will judgmentally decry the dreadful specter of &#8220;the masses&#8221; for perceived failings [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/polarization-heuristics-and-the-24-hour-news-cycle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Text as Data Conference</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/text-as-data-conference-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of last week, I had the pleasure of attending the eighth annual conference on New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data, hosted by Princeton University and organized by&#160;Will Lowe, John Londregan, Marc Ratkovic, and Brandon Stewart. The conference had a truly excellent program, and was packed with great content on a wide [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/text-as-data-conference-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Title VII</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/title-vii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to agency heads and US attorneys. Obtained by BuzzFeed, the memo read in part: Title VII&#8217;s prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women but does not encompass discrimination based on gender identity per se, including transgender status. In other words, while federal law previously [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/title-vii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Ban: Take 3</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/travel-ban-take-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, President Trump issued his third travel ban. As you may recall, the previous Executive Order on this topic called for the &#8220;assessment of current screening and vetting procedures.&#8221; While the ban itself was suspended by numerous legal challenges, apparently the information gathering work was in fact completed. The new travel ban effects nationals of [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/travel-ban-take-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How the Schocken Books collections changed Arendt scholarship</title>
		<link>http://www.anotherpanacea.com/2017/09/how-the-schocken-books-collections-changed-arendt-scholarship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bard College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Arendt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holloway Sparks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerome Kohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machete order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannah Arendt never wrote a "moral philosophy." It is not hidden away in the archives or any of the recent collections of her work, nor in her unpublished lectures, letters, or journals. She was a political theorist who thought that moral philosophy requires a set of social relations that are inaccessible in the modern world. Yet as she has become more popular and is taught more and more often by moral philosophers, she is developing an unearned reputation as a moralist that perverts both what we should mean by moral philosophy and what she hoped to show us about the world we now inhabit. <a href="http://www.anotherpanacea.com/2017/09/how-the-schocken-books-collections-changed-arendt-scholarship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adversary Democracy</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/adversary-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 22:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a long tradition in computer science, largely originating from cryptography, of designing with a generic adversary in mind. Code should be able to handle the mistaken input of a thoughtless user and should remain robust in worse-case scenarios. The motivation for this approach is simple: programming for ideal users and ideal cases will quickly [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/adversary-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Charlottesville, With Love</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/to-charlottesville-with-love/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/to-charlottesville-with-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that up until this past weekend, I&#8217;ve paid little attention to the Virginia city of Charlottesville. I had a vague sense of the city, thanks to posts from Facebook friends who live there, but I had little knowledge of the city, its people, or the controversies it was struggling with. When [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/to-charlottesville-with-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Politics and Blame</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/on-politics-and-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the few things that can be widely agreed upon these days is that the state of U.S. politics is less than ideal. Whether your side is winning or losing, it seems, the fight sure is ugly. Of course, hindsight bias makes it challenging to accurately quantify the depravity of current affairs relative [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/on-politics-and-blame/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Models of Belief Systems &amp; Cultural Systems</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-belief-systems-cultural-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-belief-systems-cultural-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work on belief systems is similar to the research on cultural systems &#8211; both use agent-based models to explore how complex systems evolve given a simple set of actor rules and interactions &#8211; there are important conceptual differences between the two lines of work. Research on cultural systems takes a maco-level approach, seeking to explain [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-belief-systems-cultural-systems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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