Ken Schultz
@kschultz.bsky.social
I am professor of political science at Stanford University and an avid nature photographer. All views are my own. More photos at https://kenschultz.smugmug.com
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Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔
Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔
Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
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Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found.
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Taking the train from Zurich to Florence, you can tell your progress by the order of languages used in announcing stops. It starts German, Italian, English, changes to Italian, German, English when you enter Ticino, and then Italian, English, German after you cross into Italy.
February 9, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Taking the train from Zurich to Florence, you can tell your progress by the order of languages used in announcing stops. It starts German, Italian, English, changes to Italian, German, English when you enter Ticino, and then Italian, English, German after you cross into Italy.
Ponte Vecchio, Florence 📷
February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Ponte Vecchio, Florence 📷
I happen to be in Italy too right now, but I didn’t think to bring my own food. I feel like such an idiot.
February 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
I happen to be in Italy too right now, but I didn’t think to bring my own food. I feel like such an idiot.
Just saw a story about how kids today don’t have the attention span to watch videos all the way to the end.
February 7, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Just saw a story about how kids today don’t have the attention span to watch videos all the way to the end.
Wow, I bet whichever country is currently number 1 is really worried!
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Wow, I bet whichever country is currently number 1 is really worried!
Luzern lit up for LiLu (Lichtfestival Luzern) 📷
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Luzern lit up for LiLu (Lichtfestival Luzern) 📷
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Shame.
under grilling from Duckworth, Rubio defends Trump's comments denigrating the service of American's NATO allies in Afghanistan
January 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Shame.
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hegemonic suicide.
just absolutely gutting
just absolutely gutting
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 PM
hegemonic suicide.
just absolutely gutting
just absolutely gutting
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Immigrants to America are great. They enrich communities and make us stronger, safer, and more prosperous than society would be otherwise.
Just saying this out loud because I’ve not seen much articulation of a positive case for immigration, lately, even as opposition to mass deportation grows.
Just saying this out loud because I’ve not seen much articulation of a positive case for immigration, lately, even as opposition to mass deportation grows.
January 26, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Immigrants to America are great. They enrich communities and make us stronger, safer, and more prosperous than society would be otherwise.
Just saying this out loud because I’ve not seen much articulation of a positive case for immigration, lately, even as opposition to mass deportation grows.
Just saying this out loud because I’ve not seen much articulation of a positive case for immigration, lately, even as opposition to mass deportation grows.
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Trump genuinely doesn't see the point in cooperative institutions in which you some times take a hit, but the pie grows enough that so does your slice.
The Board of Peace is a golf club. You pay membership to be allowed in, you get invited to parties, and you don't violate the terms. Or else.
The Board of Peace is a golf club. You pay membership to be allowed in, you get invited to parties, and you don't violate the terms. Or else.
January 23, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Trump genuinely doesn't see the point in cooperative institutions in which you some times take a hit, but the pie grows enough that so does your slice.
The Board of Peace is a golf club. You pay membership to be allowed in, you get invited to parties, and you don't violate the terms. Or else.
The Board of Peace is a golf club. You pay membership to be allowed in, you get invited to parties, and you don't violate the terms. Or else.
I don't want to brag, but I was using Claude AI to help me with some code, and it told me the paper I was working on sounded very interesting. 🏆
January 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I don't want to brag, but I was using Claude AI to help me with some code, and it told me the paper I was working on sounded very interesting. 🏆
It's a bargaining strategy that burns long-term relationships, creates a reputation for backing down (TACOs anyone?), and doesn't achieve concessions that could not have been obtained other ways. The "trademark" is as valuable as Trump Steaks™ and Trump University™.
In his mission to acquire Greenland, Donald Trump deployed his trademark bargaining strategy: Take the maximalist position — in this case the barely veiled threat of using military force — then dial back
Trump Finds His Greenland Framework and Pulls Back Threats
The president retreats from use of military force or tariffs.
bloom.bg
January 22, 2026 at 8:41 AM
It's a bargaining strategy that burns long-term relationships, creates a reputation for backing down (TACOs anyone?), and doesn't achieve concessions that could not have been obtained other ways. The "trademark" is as valuable as Trump Steaks™ and Trump University™.
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Let's assume that the skeptics were right and that Trump's threats toward Greenland were never serious.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Let's assume that the skeptics were right and that Trump's threats toward Greenland were never serious.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
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So Lutnick would be cool with China taking Guam?
BARTIROMO: I mean, we talk about evil action from Putin going into Ukraine. People are looking at Greenland and saying, 'How is it possible the US can acquire another country even though they're pushing back?'
LUTNICK: I don't remember Greenland being another country. We're not taking over Denmark.
LUTNICK: I don't remember Greenland being another country. We're not taking over Denmark.
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM
So Lutnick would be cool with China taking Guam?
Cool new project by the wonderful @profsaunders.bsky.social and @goodauth.bsky.social
📣📣📣Announcing...Chalkboard Politics @chalkboardpolitics.bsky.social, a podcast by students, for students (and their teachers). Written, edited, and mixed by the students at @siwpscolumbia.bsky.social and distributed by @goodauth.bsky.social. 1/ www.podbean.com/media/share/...
January 21, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Cool new project by the wonderful @profsaunders.bsky.social and @goodauth.bsky.social
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Please take this seriously. For me, this has been a deep truth: Writing is thinking.
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
January 21, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Please take this seriously. For me, this has been a deep truth: Writing is thinking.
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Paul's back and he nails it here
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Paul's back and he nails it here
"Nasty, brutish, and short-sighted" is very apt. Realists are right that power matters in international politics, but it is costly to employ. Constantly throwing power not only kills people and costs money, but it also burns relationships, exhausts public support, and provokes resistance. 1/
One year in, it's Hobbes all the way down. Me & @dandrezner.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Trump’s Year of Anarchy
The unconstrained presidency and the end of American primacy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:53 PM
"Nasty, brutish, and short-sighted" is very apt. Realists are right that power matters in international politics, but it is costly to employ. Constantly throwing power not only kills people and costs money, but it also burns relationships, exhausts public support, and provokes resistance. 1/
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One year in, it's Hobbes all the way down. Me & @dandrezner.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Trump’s Year of Anarchy
The unconstrained presidency and the end of American primacy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:13 PM
One year in, it's Hobbes all the way down. Me & @dandrezner.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Church and state (Bellinzona, Switzerland) 📷
January 20, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Church and state (Bellinzona, Switzerland) 📷
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For the record, George III was perfectly lucid during the Revolution proper; his madness came much later.
I did publish an op-ed in Le Monde last summer on America's Mad King Problem. But it dealt more with the irrationality of his thinking (e.g., tariffs are not taxes) than madness or dementia.
I did publish an op-ed in Le Monde last summer on America's Mad King Problem. But it dealt more with the irrationality of his thinking (e.g., tariffs are not taxes) than madness or dementia.
There’s a beautiful historical symmetry in the fact that, on the 250th anniversary of denouncing Mad King George, America is bequeathing its own mad ruler to the world.
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
For the record, George III was perfectly lucid during the Revolution proper; his madness came much later.
I did publish an op-ed in Le Monde last summer on America's Mad King Problem. But it dealt more with the irrationality of his thinking (e.g., tariffs are not taxes) than madness or dementia.
I did publish an op-ed in Le Monde last summer on America's Mad King Problem. But it dealt more with the irrationality of his thinking (e.g., tariffs are not taxes) than madness or dementia.