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Philip Bunn

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Philip Bunn

@PhilipDBunn

Assistant Professor (Poli Sci) @CovenantCollege; @UWMadison & @patrickhenrycol alum. Grumpy about technology and writing about why

Chattanooga, TN

Joined June 2010

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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Apr 13
New publication day 🥳🥳 Excited to share the fruit of much time reading Cormac McCarthy, aided by a couple productive conference presentations. McCarthy’s dialogues are fascinating and deserve better assessment than I can provide. I hope others will follow and surpass this.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Nov 10, 2024
A CNN reporter could stun lock her by just asking “what shape is the earth”
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Aug 20, 2023
Wild that a president whose term ended 20+ years ago is younger than both major candidates for the presidency today.
ABC News
@ABC
Aug 19, 2023
Former Pres. Bill Clinton is 77 today. trib.al/vRKvWrJ
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Jul 22, 2024
Walk into any bookstore in America. Indie, chain, doesn’t matter. Take a picture of the displays at the front. Then report back to me and see if you can figure out the answer to this question.
Publishers Weekly
@PublishersWkly
Jul 22, 2024
Why don’t straight men read novels? | @Dazed buff.ly/3WeX1Gf
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Oct 15, 2023
Plato: in my book, I used the allegory of the cave as a cautionary tale Tech company: at long last, we have created Plato’s Cave from the classic book Plato’s Republic.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Oct 25, 2024
Fun fact: Hasan is talking about my alma mater. He fantasizes that the girls who attended were “millionaire, billionaire faildaughters.” Even if that were true (it’s not), the fact that he turns their hypothetical rape into a utilitarian calculus is despicable. Gross human.
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@DrewPavlou
Oct 25, 2024
Hasan Piker: Rape is good if it occurs at wealthy colleges
Sgt. Gay
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Sgt. Gay
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
May 10, 2024
I will never in my life get this lucky at a thrift store again. Three pairs of Allen Edmonds, one pair of Mezlan ostrich leather loafers, all in my size, $35.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Feb 25, 2024
Replying to @hasanthehun
You said, quote, “a real job doesn’t suck the soul out of you, you know what I mean?” Which is a weird thing for a socialist to say given what, uh, socialists have to say about wage labor. Maybe if you got off your computer and read a book or talked to a human you’d know things.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Sep 22, 2025
My daughter insists on wearing sparkly shoes and dresses every day so she can be "pretty like a princess," so this morning my exasperated wife pulled up a picture of Kate Middleton in casual clothes to convince her to put on a t shirt.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Jul 8, 2024
Replying to @chaedria
Huh, so you just decided to come on Twitter and prove you’re a bad person today?
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Oct 19, 2024
I'm not even gonna do the "as a political scientist" meme, I think it's just obvious to normal human beings that an open propagandist for terrorists and communist regimes being the most popular political commentator on a particular social media platform is bad.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Feb 12, 2024
Replying to @KingLibertarian
Hi, quick question, have you ever spoken to a woman?
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Mar 20, 2024
Replying to @ConnorMEwing
I’m rooting for you, but sounds like your odds aren’t good.
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunn
Dec 20, 2024
"Students have always cheated" is the most useless, out of touch response to the crisis of generative AI. No, they have not all always cheated this pervasively and undetectably. You don't believe that. Stop saying it.
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