Hyperpartisanship & message discipline are “wicked problems".... But rules shape culture. A short list of practical changes could rebalance incentives enough to make policymaking less performative and more deliberative.
Our latest in @policyoptions.irpp.org.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/part...
14.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
How funny! will watch.
13.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my department of roughly 20 faculty, about 1/3 of my male colleagues are called either ‘Luc’ or ‘Patrick’. This lowers the odds of embarrassment for visitors & new colleagues, who have a decent shot of guessing right if they’ve blanked on a name, but pick one of those. So, there’s that.
13.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Honest answer: completely independently because I’m actually not sure what you’re referring to?
13.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My little mommy is the sweetest. But I still cringe every time I hear my own name.
13.11.2025 15:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For two decades, whenever I speak on emergency law and emergency powers, I underline this fundamental truth:
Law never rules on its own.
13.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Has anyone measured the impact of civil society actors (corporate, university, NP, etc) making political statements? Do these statements have substantive effect on movements’ success (recruitment, fundraising, policy change)?
Anyone studying this? #sociology #polisky?
13.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Because your morning definitely needs a bunny munching bok choy.
Sound up for max cuteness.
12.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Because your morning definitely needs a bunny munching bok choy.
Sound up for max cuteness.
12.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely gone at this story from Harris on FB, the last sentence is pure Atlantic coast magic.
12.11.2025 09:35 — 👍 162 🔁 58 💬 7 📌 6
I think that’s a headlight?
11.11.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Point taken, and lesson learned!
11.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t we look alike?
11.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Apparently lots of precedents! Well, there you go.
11.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One can never be quite sure.
11.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Remembering 🍁my grandfather, Max, a quartermaster sergeant in the Second World War. Here, lucky to be stationed on Vancouver Island, c.1943.
We remember all those who gave their lives when we pause at 11.
11.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Incarcerating youngsters is catastrophic for them & for society. The proudest thing in my career was serving on the Dept of ⚖️ team overhauling 🇨🇦 youth justice system. 🧒👶 incarceration is ⬇️ 85% since we moved (minus most serious offenders) to meaningful community-based consequences, 20 yrs ago.
11.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
11.11.2025 08:11 — 👍 254 🔁 79 💬 12 📌 7
More good-ish climate news.
11.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just learned there is a town called Mayersville, MI, and I can’t stop thinking about being the Mayor of Mayersville and also how from now on, when someone’s bossy, I’m gonna say:
“What are you, the Mayor of Mayersville or something?”
10.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
10.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 198 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 0
A whole army of snowmen! Fight back! ⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️
10.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In schoolyards &on front steps, first snow in Ottawa reliably showcases youngsters “playing” by shovelling snow. Yes it’s normal mammal behaviour: the young learn through play.
But the voice of Foucault looms loud…. And I want to shout: “Kids! Build snowmen! Arm yourselves w snowballs! Resist!!!”
10.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As though the seasons have tumbled into a pot, been stirred and mixed then dished back out. ❄️🍁🍃
10.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I recently tried a non-alcholic sparkling wine called ‘Naughti’ which was kinda nice. 🤷♀️
08.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the bonds of politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)
Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2025)
Great open access review symposium on Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the Bonds of Politics featuring John McCormick, Agneska Bloch, Sabrina Marasa, Marshall Pierce.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
08.11.2025 11:44 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
People: “AI is useless! Look how it can’t do this specific thing I just asked it to do! This anecdote is evidence of its uselessness!”
Other people: “AI can do all and see all! AI is GOD!"
Why so childish?
Every tool has its uses and its dangers. Nuance is possible.
07.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Such a nice gesture and very much appreciated. Thank you!🇨🇦👏
07.11.2025 13:21 — 👍 80 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 3
Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation | Journal of Democracy
Democracy’s unique, flexible, and substantial resources make it better than authoritarianism at confronting climate change.
Other good news: in rural Uganda this year, I saw solar panels everywhere. Skipped right over the grid. Folks told me they cost ~ USD$40, an accessible luxury for many families. Affordability is key.
Did you see my piece w/ @jeremywallace.bsky.social?
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/res...
07.11.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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