Thanks to Robert Redford, not only for his movies and promotion of the arts, including the Sundance Institute, but also for providing a place just minutes from Provo to experience the extraordinary natural beauty of this area.

-Violence has no place in liberal democratic politics. Differences must be settled through the law and free elections. -The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to debate politics without any government retaliatory action. -The Pres and VP should refrain from encouraging division and violence.

¡¡VOLUME 23, ISSUE 3 IS NOW OUT!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Featuring work by: @natekelly.bsky.social, @janamorgan.bsky.social, @annkristinkolln.bsky.social, @felixlehmann.bsky.social, @feligsantos.bsky.social, @abenewman.bsky.social & ....,

The message is clear: don't dare to contradict Dear Leader, no matter what the facts say. Purging anyone who disagrees is a recipe for groupthink, for short-sighted and ill-informed decision-making, and for abandoning effective reality-testing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

Very interesting work from @ethanbusby.bsky.social and colleagues looking at persuasion of *voice AI* by gender. Finding point to a complicated relationship between the topic of discussion, the gender of the human discussant, and the gender cue of the AI voice #pacss2025 #polnet2025

So, you're telling me Utah is a cultural leader not just in dirty sodas but also in oversized bean bags?

Me three months ago:

What an unnecessary and sad loss.

Seen on my recent visit to Prague

This is exactly right. Media framing of these tariffs is problematic because the comparison point is always Trump's latest (and often outlandish) threats. The proper comparison point is the current tariff, and on that score, this is a loss, not a gain.

Your daily dose of Kansas content: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Wow.

Excited to see @julietcarlisle.bsky.social and Chris Weber present work from our book project (w/ @fabianneuner.bsky.social + Mark Ramirez) on the contestation of election results at #ISPP2025. We show how winning or losing elections affects support for contesting election outcomes. Follow along!

I'm happy to share a new publication on women's representation in deliberative fora w/ Amanda Clayton, Boniface Dulani, and Katrina Kosec. We randomize the gender composition of groups tasked with discussing deforestation in Malawi. Published open access: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Four months in, and I'm already exhausted by the fact that the nation must constantly attend to the careening whims of a single individual. Whether the ideas are meant to be serious proposals or mere trolling is beside the point. Reason #1648 why the rule of law matters.

Call for proposals! EPOVB Early-Career Fellowship deadline: July 1, 2025 Submit to Melissa R. Michelson, at [email protected] dropbox.com/scl/fi/rcmsv...

This paper is super interesting. Go read it! 🧵

I feel seen. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...

Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party By Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Quin Monson, Brigham Young University; Jessica R. Preece, Brigham Young…

Real trade wars have never been tried wapo.st/42oniEY

Anti-intellectualism in the American government www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

The government mistakenly and illegally deported Abrego Garcia. The questions are simple and straightforward: where is Mr. Garcia? Do you know where he is? Has the government done anything to effectuate his return? The DOJ lawyer is unable to answer these questions. Deeply alarming and Kafkaesque.

Princeton President Chris Eisgruber continues to be such a crucial voice - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hey, look what arrived today! I'm so pleased to have a copy of the Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology in my hands. It was an immense pleasure to work with co-editors Cara Wong and @ethanbusby.bsky.social ... and an amazing team of scholars who authored the chapters!

Deeply grateful for the opportunity to stand with fellow Penn professors from 4 departments to read the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, & select Federalist Papers yesterday to call us back to our founding ideals. Grateful, too, to the DP for coverage: www.thedp.com/article/2025...

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.

Revive Smoot-Hawley? That's really the plan? Insanity.

Chris Eisgruber is both a great constitutional scholar and an extraordinary university president. I appreciate his leadership.

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It appears we're really going to replay Gilded Age arguments all over again.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship. To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.* 1/

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

Today is not shaping up to be a great day for those of us who believe that the U.S. national interest conflicts with Russia's preferences and interests.

Ironic that those who most loudly laud originalism don't seem to have read any Federalist paper except no. 70. (Which they mostly misread.) Federalist nos. 47-49 are specifically about "separated institutions sharing powers," as Richard Neustadt put it.

Being ok with a little unconstitutionalism because it benefits your political interests means that you don't really support the Constitution.

All students of Larry Bartels know this quote well.

Remind me again, which amendment to the Constitution gives the power of the purse to Russ Vought?

Our system doesn't work if the legislative branch abdicates its vast constitutional authority by ignoring (or minimizing) the law, instead merely deferring to the whims of a co-partisan in the executive branch.

Very helpful background about what's happening right now and the implications for our constitutional system.

This is not the right framing. This is not about Democrats' analysis about whether they like what the president is doing. There are laws about the president impounding Congressional appropriated money. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The citizenship clause was put in the 14th Amend to specifically overturn the Dred Scott decision (1857), which claimed that Black Americans were not citizens. Congress still could have put some restrictions on it. But they choose not to. They choose to establish universal birthright citizenship.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW! Race, Voice, and Authority in Discussion Groups https://buff.ly/3C0DdjG By @elizabethelder.bsky.social , @profkarpo.bsky.social & Tali Mendelberg