Jacob Shively

Here is the chart (even from the NYT!) that illustrates the abject poverty of this op-ed. We need to stop writing about "What Higher Education Institutions Must Do" by ignoring the large, fat end of this distribution of institutions/students & pretending the small, thin end is the entire system.

The schadenfreude folks igore the obvious: This has been happening in FL for several years.

People are getting abrupt notices that their coverage will be dropped. Last year, we had to suddenly pay for a new roof and scramble to find new coverage. Plus, rates change wildly from year-to-year.

Accidentally activated a new anxiety for my wife when, without prompting, I told her about P(doom).

Knowledge is power!

Today's typo award goes to....

ANGLOSPHERICAL

Seems like there is a point in democratic liefcycles at which militaries--maybe thanks to professional socialization--transition to being more reliably committed to democracy/constiututionalism than any given president.

Have been adding ingredients to this mix as it is eaten. You could say it's a... Snack of Theseus!

Americans can't seem to bring themselves to apply ethnic politics frameworks to their own system. It's pretty simple, and the models are a tight fit.

Perhaps b/c the identities are asymmetric: Dems are a coaltion of identities, but Republicans are a coalition with a "conservative" identity.

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Another useful term here is "nationalist."

One argument in my last book is that Trump's foreign policy wasn't conservative, realist, hawkish, or whatever. It was nationalist, as he himself stated.

Americans seem cagy about using the word, but it is both accurate and his own language.

(2/2) In that case, I think he was skeptical of the empirical turn of midcentury poli sci. Plus Strauss was controversial in his own right, which underscores the basic problem of shared values unis are confronting.

BUT the question should spur academic professionals.

I think a lot about a line I read in grad school by a political philosopher (Leo Strauss?). In effect:

What good is a science or study of politics if it can't, like a physician diagnosing cancer, identify political evils? (1/2)

With #APSA this week, I formally propose "exostructure" as the antonym of "infrastructure."

e.g., "Exostructure week" never arrived despite promises the president would devote more time to international alliances, building logistical partnerships, and investing in satellite technology.

3/3 Down the shelf, I also have Kissinger's memoirs. I pulled it for comparison.

Impenetrably long, make no mistake, but readers can jump right into flow of his prose and get pulled along. Do I trust all of it? No, but I'm also more likely to read it.

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This morning, I grabbed "Political Leadership: A Sourcebook" from 1986. It's got some well-known names from the period.

Dipping into a few chapters was exhausting: long sentences, precise jargon, etc. Good insights, maybe, but I gave up.

The outsized influence of some scholars is absolutely tied to their ability and willingness to write so that we can assign it to students and smart practitioners can read it.

For example, I'll sometimes pull old books from my shelf when I'm writing just to refresh on how someone else wrote…. 1/

I've been thinking the idea that Dems "haven't felt this excited since 2008" was exaggerated and, anyway, impossible to measure, but there it is.

I wonder if it's a COVID stimulus effect: a LOT of US households felt like they had breathing room on their budgets, could achieve some long-desired purchases, etc. People paid down credit cards. Child poverty dropped.

The rush out of that support feels bad even w/decent wages.

A truth I hold to be self-evident is that the Department Secretary is the most vital member of every department in academia. However, the amount schools actually pay that position and the resulting turnover rate is low-key devastating to every facet of institutional functionality.

Once when we mentioned something about the 1990s, my daughter hunched over, pretended to be wobbly with a cane, and used an extreme granny voice to say, "I was born in the 1900s."

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I'm hoping this is what the dad at 0:39 here meant when he said, "Things like that could happen in life."

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Good summary. Seems like along w/age, Biden also got tagged inflation & int'l wars despite effectively keeping the latter contained. Plus, his approval cratered after Afghanistan.

I think he may come out a like Truman, who was unpopular when he left but is now seen as a good president.

I bet it's the former. There is no policy to evaluate, so this thread jumps the gun on "price controls."

As you say, price gouging IS illegal under given conditions, so it's perfect to play up for campaigning to show voters that Harris sees their concern on prices w/minimal backend commitments.

Seeing this w/my own kids: seems the history and maybe civics curricula really haven't changed in terms of coverage since they were updated in the 1980s or 90s.

Most of my students know all about the "Jazz Age," WWII & civil rights but have never heard of the Gulf War and know 9/11 from YouTube.

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You can gauge an academic's generational cohort by whether their textbook mentions "fax machines" as an engine of modern globalization.

Online matters, but the influence of a guy talking into a microphone for three hours on local radio or a podcast is wildly underrated.