Very excited to be co-hosting this virtual conversation with the people on campus who are working every day to increase student turnout. Thursday August 22 starting at 1PM Central. Register here: tinyurl.com/StudentGOTVP...
Relevant: Stimson on why the image of VPs tends to improve post-nomination The key point: "all VPs will have an image that is systematically unfavorable...When will they change? Precisely when the unaware public 'meets' the VP on his or her own terms... the most likely...is the party convention"
In class talking about how social and politicized identities don't always track perfectly with the 2-party system of American politics I mentioned Catholics: "Since most Catholics are pro-life, they are opposed to... ... the death penalty." Students: 👀😱 🤨😏
Asserting a right to *not* hear protest is literally the opposite of free speech. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/o...
As any historian can tell you, the lasting lesson of McCarthyism was that when bad faith partisans haul you before Congress with demands for punishment of wrongthink, if you just give in to them completely well, that’ll be the end of it.
"It’s hard to think of a time since the anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee when Congress has made such an effort to investigate disfavored ideologies in academe." Republicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. Columbia Obliged. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/o...
The latest campus antisemitism hearing was a travesty.
It's so hard to come to this site to post too. It feels so boring without the vitriol, random trolls, offers to get rich, and likes from porn profiles. But hey, it's something. I just wish the traxh site would die.
Looking for thoughts/inspiration for my political psychology and political identities courses. Psych is a large section (35) aimed at 2nd years, the identities course is a senior seminar (< 12 students). I want to transition from mostly articles to a book chapter/popular writing + article approach