Help! I'm developing opinions about which Healthy Choice Power Bowls are the best.

I'm bringing my first edition with me to class. Gotta let the kids know I'm an OG. #feministflex

Friends, I am prepping a lecture on federalism and I am genuinely enthralled by and excited about it. I may have received my PhD in political science 10 years ago, but I don't think I truly became a political scientist until today.

An example irony of which I'm sure Alanis would have have availed herself were she an American: The man Richard Hofstadter once called "the Marx of the master class" doing disparate impact analysis to defend the rights of aggrieved southerners. I love my job.

It strikes me that Charlie Kirk was precisely what he imagined the professors on his watchlist to be: a rigid and obtuse ideologue who exploited campus cultures of comparative openness and freedom to mobilize young people in the service of an exclusionary and illiberal political agenda.

I am so tired of Democratic pundits and politicians talking about midterm strategies as if the party needs to choose between messaging about the economy, costs, inequality, affordability, etc. or democracy, due process, rule of law, Trump's authoritarianism etc.

Proud to have contributed a little piece on pedagogy to this fantastic history blog. Little known fact: All my lesson plans involve T-Pain.

If our irreparably broken and stupid political culture makes it so all the gays and feminists have a moral obligation to eat at Cracker Barrel now, I am gonna be such a happy camper.

Honestly, the funniest thing about this is that over the past 50 years, there have been more Republican presidents who were male cheerleaders than those who have been in combat.

Classes start one week from today. Time to start relearning how to talk and wear pants again.

Whenever I use a stud finder, I feel like a medieval peasant desperately trying to make meaning out of inscrutable signs. A short beep, a long beep, a flash of light! Ah, yes. Here it is. Here is where ye shall drill thou pilot hole.

Desantis went for "Deportation Depot" when "Rip Away from Home Depot" was right there. He is such a weak and sad little monster.

When I read the Nat Con drivel Vance is always cribbing from I'm haunted by the thought that I've stood for the national anthem at baseball games next to these guys and the whole time they were fantasizing about how we were part of some mystical organic unity together. Gross.

The Airbnb ad urging you to rent your house to ren fest carnies is the most compelling recession indicator I've seen.

If the person throwing the dildos at the WNBA athletes is doing so in a spirit of misogyny and homophpbia, then they can go $%*# themselves. That said, my first response when I saw this news story was to gaze off wistfully into the middle distance and think, "Noone ever throws dildos at me anymore."

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

I'm not proud to admit it, but I loved the Presidential Fitness Test as a kid. Flexed arm hang, push ups, pull ups, sit and reach, 1 mile run. I crushed them all. I would have made an excellent child soldier.

Others may have caught this already, so forgive me if I'm late to the party, but JD Vance called Harry Jaffa "Henry" Jaffa in his Statesmanship Award acceptance speech at the Claremont Institute a few weeks ago. So perfect.

For week 2 of my new Politics in the U.S. course, I'm assigning those famously prophetic excerpts on race from Democracy in America. In an effort to alienate as broad a swath of students as possible, I'm calling that week "A 19th-century conservative French aristocrat invents Critical Race Theory."

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

We still have an Establishment Clause. Hooray!

@raygunsite.com is the best!

I have a nomination for Most Cursed Artifact of the 20th Century. @ifbookspod.bsky.social, whaddaya say?

Political theory job alert! The School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida is hiring a VAP of Instruction. Details here: fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students. bit.ly/CampusLettersTally

On this day of action, faculty from around the country have one message for our boards and presidents: it's time to join together and fight back! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/5...

I'm reading Adrian Vermeule for the first time. Why did nobody tell me that on the second page of Common Good Constitutionalism, he literally tells so-called legal "originalists" to self-immolate? This book is *wild*!

It's nice to see the weird sex/gender politics behind the MAGA tariffs put so bluntly, especially after spending the past 2 weeks teaching the recent work of Patrick Deneen who is either too chicken or too unskilled a thinker & writer to simply say what he means. www.mediamatters.org/five/fox-new...

The worst thing liberalism did was shift cultural norms such that Deneen had to write a Byzantine booklength justification of his preference for a society in which white Christian men are coddled by a permanent underclass instead of just being like, "Women aren't fully human! Boys kissing is gross!"

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

A surprisingly moving moment from today's Hands Off protest in Jacksonville, FL. Big Richard Rorty "Achieving Our Country" energy.

In my exasperated margin notes in Why Liberalism Failed from the first time I read it back in 2019/2020, I repeatedly called Deneen "Uncle Patty." We all have our own ways of coping.

I wonder how many cheers the Kristols are down to these days?

Thanks Rick @chronicle.com for talking with @daniellaurison.bsky.social and I about We Are Higher Ed and the groundswell of faculty resistance to attacks on Higher Ed. Here’s what we talked about—which includes a link to our letter and website.

We came together in response to recent attacks on academic freedom and DEI, and now to the deportations. We are focused on making visible how higher ed is fighting back, and on encouraging others to fight. We started with this letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Teaching Deneen next week and must register my absolute awe at the narrowness of the vision and the depths of the misogyny necessary for a political theorist to write a WHOLE DAMN BOOK in 2018 about the conflict between liberalism and democracy and TO NOT CITE EVEN ONCE Wendy Brown's work. Stunning.

One of many reasons people gave for signing on to the statement Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education. See more reasons at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdWhySign - and read the statement at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd - go right to bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign to sign.

LFG! #teslatakedown GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION March 29 Every showroom in America 500+ around the world Let's send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY Plan an action or find one near you: teslatakedown.com

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

My God. Absolutely something foreign political scientists should keep an eye on before attending US conferences or speaking engagements.

I signed cuz publicly committing ourselves to the democratic values of free thought, free speech, and free inquiry underpinning the enterprise of higher education is more important now than ever. We may just be a bunch of adult nerds who still carry backpacks around, but ours is a fighting creed!

One reason the Democrats are not inspiring much confidence as an “opposition party” is that their leader supports a fascist crackdown by his own political opponents because it aligns with his personal support for an apartheid foreign government.

As a Senator, I serve a cause higher than what my constituents might "want," or the interests of the labor unions that support my party, or even the continued function of the republic itself. And that cause is uh... hmm this is embarrassing. Wow. I definitely had it written down. On a post-it. Haha.

I know this is oversimplifying things, but it does kind of feel like a large swath of my fellow citizens right now are fine with tanking the U.S. economy as long as it means that boys can have boy jobs instead of working in education and healthcare.

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.