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Dr. Mollie Cohen’s 2024 book, None of the Above, now available through open access, was selected as the 2025 winner of the 2025 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award. #ISPP2025 #PoliticalScience @mjcohen.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Dr. Mollie Cohen’s 2024 book, None of the Above, now available through open access, was selected as the 2025 winner of the 2025 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award. #ISPP2025 #PoliticalScience @mjcohen.bsky.social
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Today’s procedural decision by the Supreme Court is an abdication of the judiciary’s role to protect all Americans when the President violates the Constitution. Importantly, birthright citizenship, which has been a core tenet of our Constitution for more than 150 years, remains.
June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today’s procedural decision by the Supreme Court is an abdication of the judiciary’s role to protect all Americans when the President violates the Constitution. Importantly, birthright citizenship, which has been a core tenet of our Constitution for more than 150 years, remains.
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trump launched a politically motivated investigation into UVA's decision to admit nonwhite student and jim ryan folded in an immense disservice to the university
June 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
trump launched a politically motivated investigation into UVA's decision to admit nonwhite student and jim ryan folded in an immense disservice to the university
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Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
For locals still pissed about this - there's a 3pm protest planned at the Rotunda on federal overreach and university autonomy.
June 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
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Excited to be part of this collection! Very grateful to @mollyscudder.bsky.social and Michael Neblo for putting this together. #poltheory #philsky
Special issue on Democratic Listening forthcoming @polcommjournal.bsky.social. 9 excellent articles using experimental, observational, & philosophical methods to study this key component of political comm. Check out the TOC + intro essay by Michael Neblo & myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Excited to be part of this collection! Very grateful to @mollyscudder.bsky.social and Michael Neblo for putting this together. #poltheory #philsky
Special issue on Democratic Listening forthcoming @polcommjournal.bsky.social. 9 excellent articles using experimental, observational, & philosophical methods to study this key component of political comm. Check out the TOC + intro essay by Michael Neblo & myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Special issue on Democratic Listening forthcoming @polcommjournal.bsky.social. 9 excellent articles using experimental, observational, & philosophical methods to study this key component of political comm. Check out the TOC + intro essay by Michael Neblo & myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Douthat: Conservatives alone respected the “imperial papacy.” They were the last “custodians of infallibility’s mystique.” Until Pope Francis ruined it. If disagreeing with conservative Catholics was enough to stir "more of them to doubt & disobedience," was it faith & obedience in the first place?
April 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Douthat: Conservatives alone respected the “imperial papacy.” They were the last “custodians of infallibility’s mystique.” Until Pope Francis ruined it. If disagreeing with conservative Catholics was enough to stir "more of them to doubt & disobedience," was it faith & obedience in the first place?
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
Mike Johnson: "We're transitioning from Bidenomics and the terrible economy that was delivered by the last administration. It takes a while to turn that ship around."
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
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Democrats seem to have chosen to focus their opposition to Trump's regime on 'kitchen table' issues (e.g. egg prices) *to the exclusion* of his destruction of the Constitution.
That's a mistake, & I can prove it to you with a little document you might have heard of: The Declaration of Independence
That's a mistake, & I can prove it to you with a little document you might have heard of: The Declaration of Independence
March 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Democrats seem to have chosen to focus their opposition to Trump's regime on 'kitchen table' issues (e.g. egg prices) *to the exclusion* of his destruction of the Constitution.
That's a mistake, & I can prove it to you with a little document you might have heard of: The Declaration of Independence
That's a mistake, & I can prove it to you with a little document you might have heard of: The Declaration of Independence
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“Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it,” Trump says while shaking the hand of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts after the State of the Union.
March 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it,” Trump says while shaking the hand of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts after the State of the Union.
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The book The Two Faces of Democracy by @mollyscudder.bsky.social and Stephen K. White is a really great start for anyone who wants to understand the current debates on agonistic and deliberative democracy, and wants to find inspiration how to get out of the current democratic mess.
March 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The book The Two Faces of Democracy by @mollyscudder.bsky.social and Stephen K. White is a really great start for anyone who wants to understand the current debates on agonistic and deliberative democracy, and wants to find inspiration how to get out of the current democratic mess.
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One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship.
To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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February 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship.
To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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My Fellow Members of Congress: This Is a Naked Power Grab www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Rosa DeLauro: Congress, Not Trump, Controls the Money
It is right there, as clear as day in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, that the legislature controls the money.
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February 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My Fellow Members of Congress: This Is a Naked Power Grab www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
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The major media is utterly failing to simply state that Trump is a vicious racist, who blames everything on presumed racial or ethnic minorities. How hard can it be to just say “In shockingly racist remarks Trump refuses to accept responsibility and blames deadly plane crash on minorities”
January 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The major media is utterly failing to simply state that Trump is a vicious racist, who blames everything on presumed racial or ethnic minorities. How hard can it be to just say “In shockingly racist remarks Trump refuses to accept responsibility and blames deadly plane crash on minorities”
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Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
Looking forward to discussing Eric Mackey’s excellent paper today at the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community!
Come join the WPSA Pol Theory Virtual Community next Friday, September 20, 4-5:30 ET, when we discuss the paper "Nuanced Ideology Critique in Deliberative Democratic Theory" by Eric Mackey (UC Riverside). Molly Scudder (Purdue) will be our discussant. Polisky. mailchi.mp/7722afd9e751...
REMINDER: Friday, September 20 - Eric Mackey on "Nuanced Ideology Critique in Deliberative Democratic Theory"
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September 20, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Looking forward to discussing Eric Mackey’s excellent paper today at the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community!
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Is it the Trump campaign’s position that Donald Trump should not be allowed to vote?
August 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Is it the Trump campaign’s position that Donald Trump should not be allowed to vote?
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That inflation is back to a normal historical level of 2% is a phenomenal achievement. This is literally only the 2nd time in American history that we have dramatically reduced inflation w/out causing a recession.
It is a massive achievement and success by the Biden administration.
It is a massive achievement and success by the Biden administration.
July 29, 2024 at 10:34 PM
That inflation is back to a normal historical level of 2% is a phenomenal achievement. This is literally only the 2nd time in American history that we have dramatically reduced inflation w/out causing a recession.
It is a massive achievement and success by the Biden administration.
It is a massive achievement and success by the Biden administration.
Political theorists: Purdue is doing a cluster hire for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), which will include lines in Political Science. Materials are due Jan 25. I am not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions! careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...
Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, Political Science, or Sociology
Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, Political Science, or Sociology
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January 9, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Political theorists: Purdue is doing a cluster hire for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), which will include lines in Political Science. Materials are due Jan 25. I am not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions! careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...