My Temu-cal Romance
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A personal view of international relations, political science, and academia. Essays about research, teaching, and current events.
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Guardian of the Strait of Forever
President Trump's Endless Eighties Revival
Avoiding Phony Universals
Speak from your experience, not phony authority
Highway to the Coolest Zone
War's back? I'm back!
Will Obesity Be Legal After Ozempic?
A provocation
Political Science In the Polycrisis
My keynote talk to an online APSA conference
Reading Carol Cohn in Tehran
(Again, technically in Doha)
Waiting for the Americans
Notes from the brink
Press-Ganging
When the hegemon wants your fealty
If China Builds More Nukes, Do We Need More?
Results from my new Verasight survey of U.S. citizens