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Department is criticizing “malign” Chinese tech policy, the White House spokeswoman is demanding an inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 and Taiwan is getting a
profile boost early in a new president’s tenure. Tonally, the new president’s China policy so far isn t that divergent from the previous one s. Beijing probably thought candidate
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A few short months after the New York intelligentsia responded with horror to a New York Times op-ed titled “Send in the Troops” during the Black Lives Matter protests, an American publication has done it again. Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a column about Dr Jill Biden, soon-to-be first lady and, in particular, her well-earned doctorate.
In it, 83-year-old former university lecturer Joseph Epstein, who does not have a doctorate, wrote: “Madame First Lady – Mrs Biden – Jill – kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr’ before your name? ‘Dr Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe, an EdD, a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title
By Hans Bader | December 14, 2020 | 3:19pm EST
Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden, speaks on Oct. 31, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo credit: Jeff Hahne/Getty Images)
I am a lawyer with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. But calling myself Doctor would be misleading, because I don t practice medicine. Indeed, it would be insufferably pompous. As law professor Eugene Volokh notes, lawyers don t call themselves doctor, even though the word doctor is in their degree.
Jill Biden has an Ed.D degree that required even less study than becoming a lawyer, and no original research indeed, it required less research than I conducted while at Harvard Law School.
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