Bill Foster wrote the second one. I know because he's from Fermilab.
McNerney's the tensor generalization one and has a high (though not certain) chance of being the proton decay one. He's one of only two scientists in Congress. No Googling required, my wife tells me this often enough.
Sasse most likely wrote "Human capital, religion, abd economic growth." No clue on the others.
Sasse is also going to get the Oscar for most convincing case of the sads at Trump's election, elected Republican division. I wonder if he won't attract at bigger asshole as a primary challenger.
"Life and Labor" and "Who Must Die" are definitely Democrats.
I'd guess that "The anti-Madalyn majority" probably is too, but am less certain of that one.
"Capitalist penetration" sounds like a Republican, if only bcause of "black-ruled Africa."
I understood Gibson to be a (former) military man when I lived near his district, so I'd assign him "Countervailing Forces".
Is it chasing a red herring to assume that the University of Oklahoma dissertation goes to Cole (OK-4) and the one from ASU to Sinema (AZ-15)? (That gives "Life and Labor..." to a Republican, but "Who Must Die..." to a Democrat.)
I don't recognize any names other McNerney, Sasse, and maybe Cole. Maybe if I had more information on the individuals I could hazard more educated guesses, but wiki entries will likely give the game away.
The most retrograde is probably Cole, just because of his state, so I'll also guess he's older, go for one of the more conservative-friendly topics in one of the earlier years: Senate committees.
Sasse: is he maybe on a defense committee? "Civilian control and national security" then?
I'll also try Sinema => Rwanda (name suggests non-white so the one on Africa that also acknowledges other frames than capitalism exist) and Price => franking (NC/Duke).
Sasse wrote the anti-Madalyn one. He has a Ph.D. from Yale and is to young to have written one in 1969.
Two of ten avoid "put a colon in the middle of it." (The question mark in "Who Makes the Laws?" counts as a colon.)
Without a colon it's a lot harder to make shit up.
Or at least to put all the shit into a compact package.
That Isle of Dogs one looks very, hmm, ambitious.
8/10. The only one that threw me was Price. I tried connecting NC with Duke.
I knew McNerney had an engineering background and that Foster had been a particle physicist, so I was able to pin those down. (Although Foster's money comes from the theatrical lighting business he and his brother started, not Big Neutrino.) The others, I'm trying to guess based on rough age and location.
I'm thinking Brat was "Human Capital, Religion & Economic Growth ." (He's the guy that upset Cantor.)
Ridiculously pleased to see Foster so I could answer one. He was initially elected as the replacement for Dennis Hastert and possibly the first time my parents had voted for a winner in their district since they moved to IL in the late 70s.
If not paying blackmail for statutory rapes you committed while working as a teacher can be called "winning".
Not paying? Totally paying but allegations stayed under wraps for long enough for him to serve 28 years or however long, rising to Speaker. I mean, I hated the guy like a good liberal and dexent human being ought to, but he did win a bunch of elections and delay punishment for a long, long time.
It's conspicuous consumption. Any shithead can buy a Ferrari to waste money.
One of those named (Timothy Murphy) is just a standard-issue Republican suburbanite as far as I ever heard.
Anyway, dropping out of graduate school is the new Ph.D.
Someone should start an organization to help grad school dropouts run for office.
It's probably a more stable and reliable career field than academia at this point.
Dropping out and not leaving academia really worked better than I thought.
I credit clean living and white privilege.
|| I've mentioned before a local actress who's having a bit of a moment. Nice feature in our weekly. |>
30 If anyone hasn't seen Certain Women, do so. Your local actress is the standout in it (in a film with a cast including Laura Dern and Michelle Williams). Such a brilliant, deep, quiet, haunting performance that has stayed with me long after the rest of the film faded. I hope her moment is long.
Great article too, thanks for posting it Charley.
I know nothing about the academic background of these people, but here is my guess: if it is history, or at least "mainstream" American history, or economics, it's a Republican. If Science or Engineering, a Democrat. That does not mean that, say, historians are generally more conservative than engineers. But Republican politics seems to have a large number of mostly second-rate economists and historians (Gramm, Gingrich, Brat, many others) that like to make simplistic pronouncements based on their supposed expertise.
32 You just can help but root for her, can you.