Visiting Fellow, Princeton | Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
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My article is now up on #FirstView @APSRjournal. My hope is that it will be of interest to anyone who works with or thinks about The Federalist, the American founding, or the Constitution.
Here’s a brief 🧵 on its 3 key arguments: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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"So I was on my way to vote..."
The butchered remains of a dolphin were found on a New Jersey beach. Feds are investigating apnews.com/article/butchered…
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Zoom has conditioned me to believe that if I don’t like an event or meeting, I can just leave—immediately and without a word to anyone. This will be hard to unlearn.
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I certainly don’t expect gifts from my advisees. But it’ll be hard to beat this one.
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Today I get to pay $300 to take a 3-hour English test in order to be eligible to stay in the country where I am employed to teach English language courses at an English language institution, a prerequisite for which was the PhD I earned at an English language university.
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Me standing in line at the campus coffeeshop after students have returned for the fall semester:
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Rough day for some American Catholics, who no longer have an excuse for not understanding what the Pope says about caring for the poor, the imprisoned, and migrants.
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64 of the 100 current members of the US Senate were born when there were fewer than 50 states. There is nothing special about that number.
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It’s a bit hard to stomach all the “I got caught up in the moment” excuses from people who bought plane tickets, got time off work, made hotel reservations, packed their matching tactical gear, flew across the country...and then stormed the Capitol.
That's not how moments work.
"I GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT."
Idaho man says he was the guy hanging from the balcony of the Senate. He's now apologizing to the American people and asking for forgiveness.
Story: trib.al/FJdNrxy
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges”
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Historic Vids
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Dude, you run a tax exempt 501(c)(3) that receives tax deductible donations.
Tax👏breaks👏are👏government👏assistance👏
At @TPUSA we are announcing today we are rejecting a potential $1.2M in forgivable loans from the US taxpayer
Accepting any form of government assistance would be in violation of our beliefs at Turning Point USA
We proudly remain independent & stronger than ever
Big Gov Sucks!
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Never has the difference between dogs and cats been more clearly illustrated.
Gabriele Corno
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My understanding is that if Pizzaballa isn’t selected within 30 minutes, we get a second pope for free.
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The mortgage interest deduction has cost ~$750B since 2010 and the vast majority of benefits go to households with incomes over $100k. But tell me again about how redistribution is bad.
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Mind-blowing fact of the day: If Bill Clinton (73) announced that he was running for president and jumped on the @NBCNews debate stage in Las Vegas tonight, he'd be the second youngest guy on stage and smack dab in the middle of the whole group.
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A gentle reminder that there's still time for Gary Oldman to play John Rawls in a biopic that will appeal to a very small but nonetheless eager audience.
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🥳🍾 Thrilled to announce that I've accepted a journal's decision to desk reject my manuscript! 🥳🍾
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To everyone telling me that the Irish Goodbye already exists: I’m (part) Scottish. A proper Scottish Goodbye requires bagpipes and haggis. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
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We thank the reviewers for their constructive and helpful comments, which have significantly improved the quality of our manuscript
nitter.app/Culture_Crit/status/17…
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Dear law review that just sent me a rejection for a piece I submitted 4.75 years ago:
Thanks?
Love,
Connor
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This man has singlehandedly set back the humanities by two, maybe three generations.
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𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐲
Can a state disqualify a non-citizen or a 30-year-old from running for president? If so, why can it enforce Art. II but not Sec. 3?
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*whisper voice* no one liked the guy in college who wanted to make every space into a debate hall
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Tip for grad students starting their PhD: Wake up in the middle of the night to like the tweets of your department’s faculty members. That way they’ll think you’re working hard and they’ll know you’re neglecting your well-being like a real academic.
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"I believe that the president has learned from this case...The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson."
- Sen. Susan Collins (Feb. 4, 2020)
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As an assistant professor, this hits a bit too close to home.
Walz was an ASSISTANT Coach, not a COACH.
Donald Trump Truth Social 10:36 PM EST 08/22/24 @realDonaldTrump
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As a graduate student, I could never understand why faculty politics could be so nasty, personal, and vindictive. As an assistant professor, I wonder how I ever could have been so naïve.
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“VIABLE THIRD PARTIES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH AN ELECTORAL SYSTEM STRUCTURED BY SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS AND PLURALITY ELECTION RULES, ANDREW!!”
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Meet Margaret Malis Ewing. Born on April 1 at 3:13pm weighing 6 lb. 5 oz.
Like her mother, Margot is fearless, strong, and beautiful. Like her father, she likes to sleep with her mouth open.
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The triumph of rationality: Getting the college to approve a 15 week course with 11 guest lecturers. 👏👏👏
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A perhaps obvious observation: The clearest indication of the pathologies suffusing American constitutional politics is that a reform literally spelled out in the Constitution and clearly granted to Congress—changing the size of the Court—is seen as unconscionably radical.
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Trump: Matt, what do you think about recess appointments?
Gaetz: I think meeting them at school is a little risky. I prefer to pick them up—
Trump: In the Constitution, Matt.
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Just be happy The New Yorker didn’t buy Wordle. You think you could get “coöpt” in 6 chances?
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Breaches of the Capitol building in US history:
• 1814: the British, during the War of 1812
• 2021: Trump supporters, after losing an election
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The best fashion advice I can give: Go thrifting in the fancy part of town. Rich people give away good stuff.
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I still can’t quite believe that a bunch of politicians in multiple states looked at their own university systems, saw that they were the envy of the world, and said, “Nah.”
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“Leftovers from the lunch seminar can be found in the grad lounge” nitter.app/funniestvidslol/status…
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An academic press rejected a book proposal.
The press later published a similar book.
The title was the same as—& it was promoted with language from—the rejected proposal.
The kicker? One of the editors of the published book had reviewed & rejected the initial proposal.
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What my current #workflow looks like:
1. Sit down to read
2. Immediately think of a different article that might be relevant
3. Look up article
4. Find an interesting looking NEW article
5. Look up author & their current institution
6. Imagine teaching *there*
7. Fire up Zillow
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Yes, positions are advertised on Twitter. But I have never seen another instance where applications could be submitted directly to a member of the college's board of trustees, much less to his Proton Mail account.
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Gotta hand it to him—in less than 280 characters he managed to convey a complete misunderstanding of both game theory and moral philosophy.
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Omicron’s silver lining: That thing you said you’d do before the pandemic ended—the book you were going to write, the skill you were going to master, or the language you were going to learn? You have another year to do it!
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Doctor who follows medical protocols and common sense while awaiting test results for highly infectious virus.
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"Does Dobbs imperil Obergefell/Lawrence/etc?" strikes me as the wrong question. As Dobbs itself revealed, the Court doesn’t *need* much of anything beyond a majority to overrule precedents, especially when the jurisprudential differences between coalitions are truly fundamental.
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THERE ARE LOTS OF GREAT IDEAS FOR REFORMING CONGRESS BUT TERM LIMITS ISN'T ONE OF THEM, TRAVIS.
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You, a citizen: American politics is a complex amalgam of democracy and—
Me, an expert: American politics is a system in which 158M people vote for a combined 542 federal offices before we ask a guy from West Virginia and a lady from Arizona what they would like to do.
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