@kepowers.bsky.social
Political scientist at Dartmouth. Research interests: International relations, political psychology, foreign policy, public opinion. Non-research interests: cheese, rugby, mountains. Book: http://bit.ly/3lTTScD
"viewpoint diversity"
Harvard administrators pushed a faculty committee to cancel a long-running, biannual symposium featuring tenure-track women’s research, citing legal concerns about hosting a single-gender event.
Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
viewpoint diversity.
Viewpoint diversity.
I can’t believe we’re still using this antisemitic code word in the Year of Hashem 5786. Everyone, please stop.
viewpoint diversity
Is this viewpoint diversity
"viewpoint diversity"
I'd like to request a lunchroom discussion of this topic when I'm back on campus the week of Dec. 14. please and thank you.
Review of applications begins November 10 - please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172357
very cool - congratulations, @laurenrprather.bsky.social !
My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:
Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
🚨 Very flattered to have a piece, w/ the terrific
@miacosta.bsky.social, in the new @apsa.bsky.social Experiments Newsletter!
In it, we offer some thoughts on how to think about how "realistic" experimental results are. Might be useful for students 😁
connect.apsanet.org/s42/newslett...
"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."
No one would have any confusion about what is happening if they saw it in another country.
Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
Also, *every* authoritarian goes after universities and the media. These institutions have flaws now - in some cases, very deep ones. But the attacks on those flaws are pretextual. Treating them otherwise normalizes deeply authoritarian acts.
Thanks, too, to the reviewers and editors at @polbehavior.bsky.social - who shepherded us through an incredibly productive review process.
We're grateful to Dartmouth's Ethics Institute for supporting this project, and to the many excellent research assistants who helped us over the past few years. @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social
"Moralization and Foreign Policy Attitudes" (with the esteemed Sarah Maxey) is out today in Political Behavior: doi.org/10.1007/s111.... We examine who moralizes what foreign policies - and what consequences follow from moral conviction about foreign policy.
how to succeed in business without really trying?
Our paper now published in the April issue of @pnasnexus.org - and perhaps getting a real-world test of its propositions... @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social, @kmatush.bsky.social , @kepowers.bsky.social (I don't necessarily like Trump's research design, though - how did he get that past the IRB?). :^(
