Ph.D. student @ceu : IR theory, historical IR, political thought. Interested in anti-modern thought, Woodrow Wilson, Rome in the politics. Research consultant.
Joined July 2009
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20 May 2022
I have a new article out in @RStatecraft:
"We do not need a war... against autocracy to decry what is happening in Ukraine. Far better to reform ourselves, adopt restraint in our rhetoric, and leave the task of setting the world on fire to others."
responsiblestatecraft.org/20…
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Apr 23
The Penguins are primed to do one of the most humiliating acts in all of sports to the Philadelphia Flyers.
The reverse sweep. #LetsGoPens
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Watch this episode of the Vienna Dialogues: Coffee and IR, hosted by @ceu_ir, with our researcher @erinjenne, @AdamMPontius, and CEU Rector Emeritus @M_Ignatieff!
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youtube.com/watch?v=F0xt4vms…
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11 Sep 2025
Tonight I'm remembering Melissa Hortman. She devoted her life to bettering politics by serving her community through civic life. That she was killed for her service makes us uglier as a people and dims whatever light is left in our city on the hill.
thecrimson.com/article/2025/…
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25 Jun 2025
The NYTimes’ editorial board insisted that the guy who just won the first round by 8 points should not be ranked at all. Maybe they ought to consider why, in age of rising fascism, they consistently operate so far to the right of the electorate? Reactionary tools.
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25 Jun 2025
Rank choice voting is good because it defeats lesser of two evilism. Remember that the Dem establishment opposes it bc they want to be able to coerce you into voting for the federal version of Cuomo every four years.
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18 Jun 2025
Campaigns win on stories not policy positions.
18 Jun 2025
The central puzzle in American politics is why Republicans continue to win elections despite pursuing deeply unpopular policies. The simplest explanation is that issue positions don't matter nearly as much as we like to think they do.
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14 Jun 2025
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14 Jun 2025
Here we go again…
@MikeBloomberg tries to buy his FOURTH NYC mayoral election, on behalf of billionaire-ally @andrewcuomo.
Don’t let him.
It’s your city, not his.
@AdrienneEAdams @bradlander @ZohranKMamdani politico.com/news/2025/06/13…
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13 Jun 2025
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a feature not a bug.
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29 May 2025
My ode to the late Alasdair MacIntyre just posted on @The_Tablet. I explain how his philosophy remained age-defying & urgent, showing a possible path out of the "moral wilderness." But his insight came from a constant, often painful ability to change 🧵
thetablet.co.uk/features/vir…
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The following majors are showing significantly worse employment prospects than Philosophy, according to the New York Fed:
1. Computer Science
2. Business Management
3. Chemistry
4. Computer Engineering
5. Information Systems
6. Public Policy and Law
7. Physics
8. Economics
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8 May 2025
Montaigne— here in On Pedantry translated by Donald Frame— would probably respond in terms like these to the use of Chat GPT by college students. It is not an education until you understand ideas well enough to make them your own:
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24 Apr 2025
I love @mikeduncan's podcasts. His book on the Roman republic is a significant part of the inspiration for my dissertation. If you think he can do what he does without academic research existing then you're an absolute idiot.
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24 Apr 2025
That said, if academia doesn't start to value the type of work Mike Duncan does in a more serious way, I fear it will die. The distance between academia and the rest of the society is becoming far too vast to be sustainable.
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23 Apr 2025
Rubio is shutting down U.S. embassy operation in most of Africa, a continent that the Bush administration made a priority in GWOT (AFRICOM) and in development policy (AIDS).
How exactly is that in line what we'd expect from a "conventional Republican administration?"
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23 Apr 2025
Rubio was never particularly credible amongst moderate GOPers. It was always clear that his ambition outstripped his prudence and sense of stewardship.
Nothing he has done so far as SoS suggests that his moderate posturing before 2016 was anything but performative.
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19 Mar 2025
.@Tim_Walz hits it out of the park here.
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19 Mar 2025
The rise of MAGA should inspire a massive paradigm shift in the study of U.S. political science towards more historical & cultural approaches. The reigning schools—institutionalism, behavioralism & rat'l choice—all failed to grasp the biggest event in US politics in a generation
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5 Mar 2025
Allying with Russia so that we can war with China is not restraint.
Opposing Colby having any responsibility over U.S. foreign policy is not supporting unlimited American interventionism.
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24 Feb 2025
That you've been friends with Trump for 20 years is comment enough on the value of anything that you've managed to 'learn.'
24 Feb 2025
I’m probably howling into the wind here in regard to who needs to hear it, but what I’ve learned about Donald Trump during our 20-year friendship is that if you focus energy on what he *does* rather than what he *says*, it massively reduces the need for mass hysteria.
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