The Trump Administration has used the power of government to restrict broadcast of a conversation about politics, the meaning and purpose of Christianity, and the role of religious belief more broadly. Chilling.

My paper on the original meaning of birthright citizenship is now published

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

The tragic destruction of the Washington Post's brand is a sad tale of Bezos's hubris and cravenness. He has completely misjudged what is required at this moment ... and why the Post's readership is declining.

“What we are seeing is the weakness of strong states. Regimes that rely on repression face a challenge: The more force they deploy, the more they risk exposing their own brutality to politically persuadable observers. Overreach doesn’t just project strength; it also undermines legitimacy.” Gift link

More evidence of federal agents behaving in ways that are flagrantly inconsistent with the Constitution and basic principles of a free society.

This is from December, but it carefully highlights tactics used by ICE and the Border Patrol, including against U.S. citizens. Put simply, these scenes are deeply inconsistent with respect for public safety, the Constitution, and, more broadly, a free society. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump’s assertion of unlimited authority — subject only to his moral judgment and his mind (whatever that means) — is a total rejection of popular sovereignty and the logic of the Constitution,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

Lucky that no congregants were injured or killed. Torahs take a year to write so this is really long term damage to the community.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

“This is a radical change, and one that will surely leave the United States poorer, weaker and more isolated. I cannot help but detect in these nativist outbursts against Indian immigrants and their descendants a profound loss of confidence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

None of this is new, and it's as problematic today as it was then.

Are you kidding me?! What an inning.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

This opinion is worth reading. Here's the portion of Judge Young's decision that concerns masked ICE officers. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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.

¡¡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.