Young People Are Fascinating—Just Don't Expect Them to Decide the 2026 Election: honestgraft.substack.com/p/young-peop...

Young People Are Fascinating—Just Don't Expect Them to Decide the 2026 Election: open.substack.com/pub/honestgr...

Republican Governing Mistakes Are the Great Partisan Equalizer: open.substack.com/pub/honestgr...

Republican Governing Mistakes Are the Great Partisan Equalizer: open.substack.com/pub/honestgr...

Huge congratulations to our 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles winners - Polarized by Degrees by @mattgrossmann.bsky.social & @davehopkins.bsky.social, Intersectional Advocacy by @mperezbrower.bsky.social, and Recasting the Latin American Right by Andrés Borges, Ryan Lloyd, & Gabriel Vommaro!

Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results: honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...

Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results: honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...

Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results: honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...

When party ID outweighs #policy, what’s left to debate? “For a lot of people who are partisans, their identity as a partisan is more central to them than their position on most policy issues," says @davehopkins.bsky.social . From @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social of @msnbc.com ⤵️

Understanding the diploma divide @davehopkins.bsky.social & I were on the The Vital Center podcast in a first-of-it's-kind @niskanencenter.bsky.social pod crossover event! www.niskanencenter.org/understandin...

"The best work of quantitative social science I have read in many years." George Hawley reviews @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and @davehopkins.bsky.social's "Polarized by Degrees." lawliberty.org/book-review/...

The “diploma divide” is a driver of U.S. polarization, according to Political Science Professor @davehopkins.bsky.social, co-author of a new book on the subject, who discusses it on California public radio's @kqednews.bsky.social. bit.ly/DiplomaDivide...

The best explanation of our current politics I’ve come across is in a new book: Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics. We talk to co-author @davehopkins.bsky.social in the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/uzUNxzwzmueB...

This is great news for us at BC as well! bsky.app/profile/klun...

Ken Kersch was a wonderful colleague and an exceptional teacher and scholar. It's a very sad time for all of us at BC and we'll miss him terribly.

I am among the many professional colleagues quoted in Tom Edsall's latest NY Times column on the future of the Democratic Party after 2024: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...

. @mattgrossmann.bsky.social / @davehopkins.bsky.social examine how “culturally progressive technocracy” is sparking a backlash that’s reshaped conservative politics along the way. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-rise-o...

This week, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I appeared on the 538 Politics podcast, discussing the partisan diploma divide and our new book Polarized by Degrees. Watch a video clip below and find the complete episode in your podcast app of choice: abcnews.go.com/538/video/ed...

In the 2024 Elections, It's a Man's Man's Man's Republican Party: honestgraft.substack.com/p/in-the-202...

I've written about the "diploma divide" in White political behavior from a variety of angles, but I think once the dust settles from the 2024 election people will accept educational attainment is the *dominant* cleavage among White Americans. fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/pub...

Just published today in Governing magazine, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I have a new article identifying the ways that the diploma divide is redefining American politics. It's a distillation of the argument in our new book Polarized by Degrees: www.governing.com/magazine/the...

I'm thrilled that Polarized by Degrees, my new book with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, is now available! We explain how the rise of the "Educultural Realignment" in the 21st century has redefined the American parties' constituencies, policies & styles of governing: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Post-Debate Wrap Up: Not Much to Learn, But a Clear Story Forms honestgraft.substack.com/p/post-debat...

Polarized by Degrees is here! For #APSA2024 attendees, we have an Authors Meet Critics panel with @juliaazari.bsky.social, Suzanne Mettler & Josh Zingher today at 10:00 am in Loews Hotel Commonwealth C, and @mattgrossmann.bsky.social & I will be signing books Friday at 3:30 at the Cambridge UP booth

Democratic Convention Wrap-Up: 16 Years Later, It's Still Obama's Party: honestgraft.substack.com/p/democratic...

What the Tim Walz Pick Tells Us About Kamala Harris: open.substack.com/pub/honestgr...

Honest Graft: Did Dumping Biden Make the Democrats Un-Democratic? Yes...and No open.substack.com/pub/honestgr...

Honest Graft: Biden Decides to Drop Out: The View from Political Science honestgraft.substack.com/p/biden-deci...

The newest episode of The Odd Years Podcast with Amy Walter (of the Cook Political Report & PBS) features a fun conversation with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and me about our forthcoming book Polarized by Degrees. It's available via podcast apps or this link: www.cookpolitical.com/CPR-access/o...

I recently spoke with Angelina Parrillo of the Boston Globe about the growing difference in how Republicans and Democrats view the field of higher education and the value of a college degree — a gap confirmed by a new poll by the Globe and Emerson College: www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/m...

Blurbs are in for my next book with Dave Hopkins: Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics. Thanks so much! Pre-order here: www.cambridge.org/us/academic/...

Sinema really was a true maverick/oddball -- a type that used to be much more common in Congress but is now vanishing. Most high-level politicians' behavior is easily explainable by identifying their immediate strategic incentives, but she was a rare and fascinating exception.