Daniel Schlozman
@daschloz.bsky.social
Political scientist (at Johns Hopkins) and political button collector.
I blurbed this book last week, and in some ways it covers a lot of this ground already, but in others it suggests an opening for a more broadly comparative perspective. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
When Democrats Won the Heartland
www.press.uillinois.edu
February 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I blurbed this book last week, and in some ways it covers a lot of this ground already, but in others it suggests an opening for a more broadly comparative perspective. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
I do. The question, even if not framed that baldly, would be some version of "How did we get from HHH/McCarthy/Mondale to George Floyd/Renee Good/Alex Pretti?" It would also begin to get at a version of liberalism that's the same and different from the ideal type in Mastery and Drift.
February 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I do. The question, even if not framed that baldly, would be some version of "How did we get from HHH/McCarthy/Mondale to George Floyd/Renee Good/Alex Pretti?" It would also begin to get at a version of liberalism that's the same and different from the ideal type in Mastery and Drift.
You should still write this book eventually! A more APD-ish way to do it would be a Twin Cities-Milwaukee (or MN-WI) comparison.
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
You should still write this book eventually! A more APD-ish way to do it would be a Twin Cities-Milwaukee (or MN-WI) comparison.
It's really hard to appreciate the Epstein emails as elite Mad Libs until you start searching. This is Epstein, Ken Starr, and Henry Rosovsky.
January 31, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It's really hard to appreciate the Epstein emails as elite Mad Libs until you start searching. This is Epstein, Ken Starr, and Henry Rosovsky.
Looking up my hyper-political friends' voter histories was a good way to learn that lesson.
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Looking up my hyper-political friends' voter histories was a good way to learn that lesson.
If we still have intellectual historians in a few generations, this list will be very helpful to guide them to the overhyped minds of the 2020s. PS: Derek Thompson should be embarrassed to be on this list.
The new CBS contributors:
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
If we still have intellectual historians in a few generations, this list will be very helpful to guide them to the overhyped minds of the 2020s. PS: Derek Thompson should be embarrassed to be on this list.
Immerwahr reaches Greenland. "The experience of US territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa — is a cautionary tale: economic dependence, democratic deficit and structural impoverishment. Every US territory is poorer, per capita, than Greenland."
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Trump and Rutte cannot make a deal without Greenland at the table
We are not rejecting co-operation — we are rejecting being spoken for
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January 26, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Immerwahr reaches Greenland. "The experience of US territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa — is a cautionary tale: economic dependence, democratic deficit and structural impoverishment. Every US territory is poorer, per capita, than Greenland."
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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
"The Stephen Millers of the country are fighting a cultural war that they have already lost. But what continues to hang in the balance is the amount of destruction that they can inflict on the world nonetheless, and what type of country will be present on the other side."
New @equatormag.bsky.social: Aziz Rana’s political diary of 2025, a year of state violence and moral complicity in the United States: ”We are all participants in a political conversation whose rules make naming a depravity into a violation of etiquette.”
www.equator.org/articles/day...
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Days of Complicity • EQUATOR
A historian’s diary of Trump’s return to power
www.equator.org
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
"The Stephen Millers of the country are fighting a cultural war that they have already lost. But what continues to hang in the balance is the amount of destruction that they can inflict on the world nonetheless, and what type of country will be present on the other side."
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By saying that territorial expansion is in our blood, Schmitt is quite literally articulating a "blood and soil" imperialism.
the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party
January 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM
By saying that territorial expansion is in our blood, Schmitt is quite literally articulating a "blood and soil" imperialism.
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I am struck by how little the MAGAites have thought through the acquisition of Greenland. Would it become a permanent unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico? A new state? Would we recognize Indigenous rights and negotiate treaties with the Inuit peoples there? What would the language policy be?
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I am struck by how little the MAGAites have thought through the acquisition of Greenland. Would it become a permanent unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico? A new state? Would we recognize Indigenous rights and negotiate treaties with the Inuit peoples there? What would the language policy be?
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
That's good! Bring back the Tenure in Office Act. Point is to restrain the presidency.
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
That's good! Bring back the Tenure in Office Act. Point is to restrain the presidency.
Various fans of Biden-era executive action have been foaming at the mouth for a Left Caesarism in 2029. That view is wrong. Time to cut back the claims of presidential power, even if it hamstrings the next Democratic president.
January 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Various fans of Biden-era executive action have been foaming at the mouth for a Left Caesarism in 2029. That view is wrong. Time to cut back the claims of presidential power, even if it hamstrings the next Democratic president.
Today's out-of-print book recommendation is Robert Beisner, Twelve against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900, which is a fascinating look at the losers--mostly but not all sympathetic--who protested when history moved in a different direction. archive.org/details/isbn...
Twelve against empire; the anti-imperialists, 1898-1900 : Beisner, Robert L : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xvi, 310 pages 22 cm
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January 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Today's out-of-print book recommendation is Robert Beisner, Twelve against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900, which is a fascinating look at the losers--mostly but not all sympathetic--who protested when history moved in a different direction. archive.org/details/isbn...
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Well Elliot Abrams IS an expert on human rights under Latin American dictators
January 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Well Elliot Abrams IS an expert on human rights under Latin American dictators
Some buttons from the new mayor.
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Some buttons from the new mayor.
A nice thing that happened in this horrible year was I finally hired someone to start digitizing my vast collection of political buttons. Progress has been slow, but eventually I'll put them on a website. Here's a few of them.
December 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A nice thing that happened in this horrible year was I finally hired someone to start digitizing my vast collection of political buttons. Progress has been slow, but eventually I'll put them on a website. Here's a few of them.
A big point of Schickler, Racial Realignment, is to push against that idea, by explicating push for racial liberalism in northern state parties.
December 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A big point of Schickler, Racial Realignment, is to push against that idea, by explicating push for racial liberalism in northern state parties.
I found David Duke's 1988 Christmas card. The outside says "May your days be merry and bright," and then the inside says "And may they be forever white."
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I found David Duke's 1988 Christmas card. The outside says "May your days be merry and bright," and then the inside says "And may they be forever white."
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
I wondered, as a Brookline native, what that NIMBY's job was, and lo and behold.
December 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wondered, as a Brookline native, what that NIMBY's job was, and lo and behold.
Since we talked and I see the title of ch. 6, I want to be very clear that I hold the Schattschneiderian view that "Democracy is not to be found in the parties but between the parties." Strong, rooted, civic, yes. Internally democratic and plebiscitarian all the way down, NO.
December 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Since we talked and I see the title of ch. 6, I want to be very clear that I hold the Schattschneiderian view that "Democracy is not to be found in the parties but between the parties." Strong, rooted, civic, yes. Internally democratic and plebiscitarian all the way down, NO.
Time for Elise Stefanik to achieve the goal she wanted for herself two decades ago, Fellow at the Institute of Politics.
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Time for Elise Stefanik to achieve the goal she wanted for herself two decades ago, Fellow at the Institute of Politics.