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I am Deirdre McCloskey and have written twenty books and some four hundred academic articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics, and law.
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• I am Deirdre McCloskey and have written twenty books and some four hundred academic articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics, and law.

I am a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I am currently a Senior Fellow at Cato Institute.

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/botMrsi

Looking forward to your questions, Reddit.
UPDATE: I'm going to wrap up at 8:30pm Pacific, but thank you for your questions. It's been interesting.

Update on 4/1 (and no, this is not an April Fool's joke): I enjoyed this exchange and will do another one in a few months.

[crosspost r/politics] I'm an anthropologist who studies the origins of extremism, political violence and genocide as well as paths to conflict resolution. I did fieldwork for many years in Cambodia before turning to more recently to do research on the United States. AMA!
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• [crosspost r/politics] I'm an anthropologist who studies the origins of extremism, political violence and genocide as well as paths to conflict resolution. I did fieldwork for many years in Cambodia before turning to more recently to do research on the United States. AMA!

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We’re Emma Sarappo, Gal Beckerman, and Ellen Cushing, editors at The Atlantic. Ask us anything about The Atlantic’s Great American Novels list.
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• We’re Emma Sarappo, Gal Beckerman, and Ellen Cushing, editors at The Atlantic. Ask us anything about The Atlantic’s Great American Novels list.

We’re Emma Sarappo, Gal Beckerman, and Ellen Cushing, editors for The Atlantic, and we’re here to talk about our just-released Great American Novels list.

In seeking to identify a new American canon, we defined American as having first been published in the United States and within the past 100 years: a period that contains all manner of literary pleasure and possibility, including the experimentations of postmodernism and the satisfactions of genre fiction. Then we approached experts—scholars, critics, and novelists, both at The Atlantic and outside it—for their suggestions. From there,

we added and subtracted and debated and negotiated and reconsidered until we landed on these 136 titles.
The list includes 45 debut novels, nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and three children’s books. Twelve were published before the introduction of the mass-market paperback to America, and 24 after the release of the Kindle. At least 60 have been banned by schools or libraries. Together, they represent the best of what novels can do: challenge us, delight us, pull us in and then release us, a little smarter and a little more alive than we were before.

Read the full list here: https://theatln.tc/V57bT2jO