Jeffery Tyler Syck
@jtylersyck.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pikeville. 8th Generation Kentuckian. Presbyterian.
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"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
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Lesson for Liberalism - Providence
Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that to form a pluralist society—one in which all traditions and ethnicities thrive—we must abandon our utopian visions
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October 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"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
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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 🧵
This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵
September 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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 🧵
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 🧵
This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵
September 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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 🧵
This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵
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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
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A Call for Realism, Love, Localism, and Democracy: Review of Rory Stewart’s “Politics on the Edge” - Providence
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 po...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
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Universities are ground zero in the culture wars, but we must not let that obscure deeper issues
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Universities are ground zero in the culture wars, but we must not let that obscure deeper issues
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The problem of mass produced education • Kentucky Lantern
Biggest issues beleaguering higher education are systemic rather than ephemeral demographic disruptions or ideological capture.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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...
Universities are ground zero in the culture wars, but we must not let that obscure deeper issues
kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/19/t...
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🦌The extraordinary white deer in Sweden 🇸🇪
June 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🦌The extraordinary white deer in Sweden 🇸🇪
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If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, they might find it by focusing on the economy.
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If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, they might find it by focusing on the economy.
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Can this two-party system be saved? • Kentucky Lantern
If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, it's the economy. They should offer solutions to the region's housing and jobs crises.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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...
If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, they might find it by focusing on the economy.
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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.
April 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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.
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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.
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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.
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Shore up social studies education to shore up American democracy • Kentucky Lantern
Better social studies education requires good teachers, more resources and a thoughtful curriculum. Nothing less than U.S. democracy is at stake.
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January 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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...
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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From @jtylersyck.bsky.social:
Shore up social studies education to shore up American democracy • Kentucky Lantern
Better social studies education requires good teachers, more resources and a thoughtful curriculum. Nothing less than U.S. democracy is at stake.
kentuckylantern.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Religious freedom has never protected moral barbarism.
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Religious freedom has never protected moral barbarism.
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No place in Kentucky for the abomination that is conversion therapy • Kentucky Lantern
In the modern political climate, culture war battles are a dime a dozen. Whether it’s immigration or school choice or transgender bathrooms, the average voter can easily get lost in the sea of discont...
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January 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Religious freedom has never protected moral barbarism.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/10/n...
Religious freedom has never protected moral barbarism.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/10/n...
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America’s fracturing conservative fusionism, the alliance between free marketers, social conservatives, and foreign policy hawks, has me thinking about New Zealand’s own fusionist experiment. In 2023, the country saw its first three-party coalition. Let’s take a look. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
The key players in New Zealand's new government
New Zealand's National Party, ACT New Zealand and New Zealand First Friday signed a coalition agreement and will be sworn in as the 54th government on Monday.
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January 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
America’s fracturing conservative fusionism, the alliance between free marketers, social conservatives, and foreign policy hawks, has me thinking about New Zealand’s own fusionist experiment. In 2023, the country saw its first three-party coalition. Let’s take a look. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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.
December 1, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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.
October 18, 2023 at 1:20 PM
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!
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"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...
October 12, 2023 at 3:34 PM
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...
"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."
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"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...
September 27, 2023 at 12:14 PM
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...
"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
September 23, 2023 at 6:51 PM
“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
September 23, 2023 at 3:47 AM
"Strive not though to become a god. The things of mortals best befit mortality." - Pindar
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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?
September 20, 2023 at 11:30 PM
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.
September 20, 2023 at 2:26 PM
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
September 19, 2023 at 7:04 PM
"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
September 19, 2023 at 2:58 AM
"Make all men enemies but not the gods." - Aeschylus