December 17, 2022:
Her thesis was an algorithm — essentially a spreadsheet of arbitrary variables — calculating the likelihood of a country "going Marxist". In plainer terms it was braindead stupid, shockingly so for someone so obviously intelligent.
I asked her, "When you say 'going Marxist', what does 'Marxist' mean?"
She had no answer, indeed the question seems to have never been posed to her before.