IgnorantVeil

Let's talk about PT! Who's applying as a primary field theorist? What're your interests? What schools have you applied to?

This is nonsense. What you've done is to beautifully illustrate your intellectual dishonesty and trollishness. Respond to the substantive arguments I and others have made or admit your position is ridiculous.

Civility is owed to the intellectually honest.

The argument many folks have raised about the obvious inability of people with law degrees to conduct serious social scientific research is clearly correct, but I think it gives too much ground to SOG25's nonsense. Any of you that have the time or energy should go here and peruse the list of UG courses on offer this year. By my (quite charitable) count, someone with a law degree might (might) have a reasonable claim to be a capable teacher of 5 of those courses. ...out of 65! And more to the point, no single lawyer could reasonably lay claim to the skills required to teach any 3 of those 5. Now pick any 2 of the traditional 4-5 fields of political science. Anyone with an education in the 2 fields you've picked would be able to teach (at minimum) 4 for those courses. Legal training ≠ political science training. QED. A second way to illustrate this breathtakingly obvious point would be to open up a few syllabuses and point out that no student of law has even been required to read Bowling Alone, The American Voter, Inequality Reconsidered, or Exit, Voice, and Loyalty; all just examples of essential political science reading that is taught in the classes you're talking about! This has been a profoundly stupid discussion with a disturbingly successful troll for 13 pages now. If I close by saying fuck a bunch of times will the admins please close the thread?

Any word on Brown or speculation about when they'll send acceptances?