"In theory, almost all Americans profess to be pluralist liberals. In reality, both the left and right struggle to accept those they find unsavory" @jtylersyck.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/10/dani...

Why does the political center feel hollow today? Centrism promises compromise, balance, and reason—but modern politics rewards passion, grievance, and identity. This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵

Why does the political center feel hollow today? Centrism promises compromise, balance, and reason—but modern politics rewards passion, grievance, and identity. This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵

Rory Stewart’s “Politics on the Edge” describes at length the failures of both David Cameron’s center-right neoliberalism and Boris Johnson’s populism, yet leaves the reader with hope for a renewed political future. @jtylersyck.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/07/a-ca...

Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social Universities are ground zero in the culture wars, but we must not let that obscure deeper issues kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/19/t...

🦌The extraordinary white deer in Sweden 🇸🇪

Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, they might find it by focusing on the economy. kentuckylantern.com/2025/06/04/c...

I have unintentionally become a character on Frasier. This morning I ordered a nonfat latte with a "spritz of sugar free vanilla and a dusting of cinnamon" while showing off a custom made dress shirt to a friend.

Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social For many principals and superintendents, social studies classes are simply the dumping ground for patronage appointments and athletic coaches, especially in rural KY where school districts are often the largest employer. kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/02/s...

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Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social Religious freedom has never protected moral barbarism. kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/10/n...

John Quincy Adams is America’s Edmund Burke. By this, I do not mean that he is the founder of American conservativism but something far deeper. Adams understood and articulated the cultural tradition that is America – our ideas, hopes, and history – better than any other thinker.

This is quite possibly the most professor outfit I have ever worn.

My latest piece: "The time has come for the right to discover the greatness of the New Deal and to improve it. Rather than ceaselessly caterwauling about Roosevelt’s imagined despotism." Check it out below! www.theamericanconservative.com/conserving-t...

My latest article in Law and Liberty: "The religious wars of the early modern period or the cruel despotism of modern Iran should give us some idea of what life becomes when the state adopts an official answer to all important questions." lawliberty.org/old-mistakes...

“Liberals are people who would like to see things improved, and conservatives are people who would like to see things not worsened. And anyone who does not have a bit of both does not have their head screwed on right.” - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Strive not though to become a god. The things of mortals best befit mortality." - Pindar

The biggest coup that (IR) realists ever achieved was getting us to agree to call their theory “realism.” Why did we ever agree to that? Can we take it back?

Though Mozart has probably written my favorite composition and Pachelbel the piece that most moves me, Tchaikovsky is the composer I return to more often than any other. His grand, sweeping, melodies are irresistible to me.

"Men today are less divided than some imagine. They fight constantly about who should wield power, but they agree readily as to the duties and rights of that sovereignty. All conceive of government in terms of an unrivaled, simple, providential, and creative power." - Alexis De Tocqueville

"Make all men enemies but not the gods." - Aeschylus