Michael Greig
@michaelgreig.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science @ the University of North Texas. Senior Fellow, Castleberry Peace Institute. Frequent dog walker. Florida Gator. Not always in that order.
Research interests: conflict management, civil & interstate wars
Research interests: conflict management, civil & interstate wars
If his take here is that for Democrats to win they need to be more open to candidates sporting SS iconography, that probably does not saying anything good about either the state of the party or the country.
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If his take here is that for Democrats to win they need to be more open to candidates sporting SS iconography, that probably does not saying anything good about either the state of the party or the country.
John Yoo makes a good point about war crimes are not words I ever expected to include in a sentence together
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
John Yoo makes a good point about war crimes are not words I ever expected to include in a sentence together
Nothing quite like the red carpet treatment, gleeful greeting, and cozy car ride together for a war criminal. Disgusting.
August 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Nothing quite like the red carpet treatment, gleeful greeting, and cozy car ride together for a war criminal. Disgusting.
DFW Channel 4 is streaming it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/px6gDIn9b2Y?si=Te3wwJizUj1SR6Zx
August 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
DFW Channel 4 is streaming it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/px6gDIn9b2Y?si=Te3wwJizUj1SR6Zx
The rise of the aggrieved middle-aged tech billionaire convinced that the deck was ever stacked against them, good luck & societal support played no role in their success, and convinced that they deserve more money, power, & attention explains a lot of today
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The rise of the aggrieved middle-aged tech billionaire convinced that the deck was ever stacked against them, good luck & societal support played no role in their success, and convinced that they deserve more money, power, & attention explains a lot of today
Maybe I'm just cynical, but this Trump & Vance performance looked calculated to box Zelensky into a corner as the barrier to peace. Allows the admin to justify an opening toward Russia, isolating Ukraine, and kicking the problem to the Europeans.
February 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Maybe I'm just cynical, but this Trump & Vance performance looked calculated to box Zelensky into a corner as the barrier to peace. Allows the admin to justify an opening toward Russia, isolating Ukraine, and kicking the problem to the Europeans.
Of course not. The problem is that he effectively got jumped by the VP and Prez in a press conference. If he had simply sat there & nodded, I'm doubtful that helps his support anywhere he needs it. My sense is that his response, once Vance opened his mouth, was the least bad of a set of bad options
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Of course not. The problem is that he effectively got jumped by the VP and Prez in a press conference. If he had simply sat there & nodded, I'm doubtful that helps his support anywhere he needs it. My sense is that his response, once Vance opened his mouth, was the least bad of a set of bad options
I have a lot of respect for your work, but I struggle to see how Zelensky had any alternative here. Allowing Trump & Vance to spew lies with no response kills Zelensky @ home, makes bargaining with Putin harder, undermines European support, and in the end does little to bolster his cause with Trump
February 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I have a lot of respect for your work, but I struggle to see how Zelensky had any alternative here. Allowing Trump & Vance to spew lies with no response kills Zelensky @ home, makes bargaining with Putin harder, undermines European support, and in the end does little to bolster his cause with Trump
What makes this particularly aggravating in this case is that, even without all that unnecessary work, this was a really good paper doing novel things with really interesting findings. The fear of R2 forced these authors to spend time that they shouldn’t have had to.
January 3, 2024 at 11:37 PM
What makes this particularly aggravating in this case is that, even without all that unnecessary work, this was a really good paper doing novel things with really interesting findings. The fear of R2 forced these authors to spend time that they shouldn’t have had to.
For untenured faculty & graduate students, it is a huge waste of time. Time that they don’t have & could be channeled into more productive things.
January 3, 2024 at 11:35 PM
For untenured faculty & graduate students, it is a huge waste of time. Time that they don’t have & could be channeled into more productive things.
The very fact that authors increasingly feel the need to head off reviewer gripes with an enormous amount of auxiliary analyses says a lot about how unproductive peer-review has become.
January 3, 2024 at 11:33 PM
The very fact that authors increasingly feel the need to head off reviewer gripes with an enormous amount of auxiliary analyses says a lot about how unproductive peer-review has become.