I went to this extraordinary @theologypolicy.bsky.social conference at Yale Divinity School on Monday on how faith communities can and should respond to authoritarianism in the US. Phenomenal, inspiring, a call to action. www.faspe-ethics.org/symposium/

A Bangladeshi friend sent this, fascinating stuff. Mamdani's campaign has more socio-political layers than a mille-feuille! www.jamhoor.org/blog/zohran-...

DC crowd was more diverse in every way too

Some of the violent protesters in DC #nokings

Political science has obsessed over polarization while largely neglecting extremism, and with few exceptions has been inattentive to the roots of it all—power, structures, and identities. Too many elites are just as unprepared. Thus, their takes are empty, trite, and naive.

Of course you did! When asked about political scientist Kathleen McNamara’s work, ChatGPT lists 3 completely made up articles in my 5 most “highly cited articles & chapters.” I use this in teaching, to caution students on how dumb AI is. And agree that it should be a CPS policy of automatic reject.

And funny how I am still surprised after 30 years of this.

YAAASSS!

Publishing requires giving up (some) of those high hopes while keeping enough of your original glorious vision so you are (somewhat) satisfied when you hit submit. Paul Valéry said "I never finish a poem, I just abandon it." Or perhaps better to see we are sending it on its way, into the world? FIN/

There is that point in a project where you realize you HAVE to throw some things overboard to keep the rowboat afloat, otherwise the whole thing will sink. Make the choices and keeping rowing to move forward (the imagery I inevitably share with my PhD students struggling to finish). 3/

I feel like we should have some sort of Kübler-Ross staging to capture the way we begin a research & writing project with such high hopes and ambitions in our heads, and then get knocked down, only to find a way through (God willing) by the end. 2/