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Visiting Lecturer Politics @Princeton. Senior Fellow @WitherspoonInst. Contributing editor @PublicDiscourse. Professor Emeritus of Political Science @RadfordU.

Princeton, NJ
Joined April 2012
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Today I announce that, if nominated and elected, I will serve as president of the United States. A brief account of my platform is published at @thedispatch. Link below.
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At his invaluable Substack, Confirmation Tales, @EdWhelanEPPC has ten takeaways from the midterm election regarding judicial appointments (or the dearth thereof). Some of this is grimmer for Trump and the GOP than I might predict, but he's probably right: confirmationtales.com/p/what…
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He's not wrong! A popular movie, but a terrible one.
TITANIC (1997): "Just as the hubris of headstrong shipbuilders who insisted that the Titanic was unsinkable led to a maritime disaster, so Cameron's overweening pride has come unnecessarily close to capsizing this project." LA Times, 12/19/97
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Because the Mizzou Tigers beat the Arkansas Razorbacks 34–10 over the weekend, you can buy the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (coincidentally, 34 volumes) for 34% off this week from @umissouripress. That’s a saving of >$500, so what are you waiting for? upress.missouri.edu/97808262…
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Forgot the magic word, discount code GOTIGERS.
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On the occasion of an old friend scheduling surgery: A man with a ruptured patella Felt just like a broken umbrella He said to his doc “It hurts when I walk, And a flight of stairs makes me turn yella.”
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There is so much to my life story, catch a glimpse of what God has done thus far.
Tonight at 8ET, catch an all-new episode of The Journey Home! Luma Simms from @EPPCdc came from a Christian family in Iraq, and she shares how her experience of Christianity in different countries led her to consider the claims of the Catholic Church... #JHprogram
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Speaking only for myself, if I were transporting illegal drugs, I would not pick up fries at a drive-thru for my lamb in the backseat. I’d pack him a lunch beforehand.
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When your wife asked you to do one little thing while she was out and you haven't done it.
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This already won the internet! Halloween 2026 🎃
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The stillness of an Idyllic fall afternoon Leaf blowers shatter.
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I don’t think there’s ever been such a thing as an unfiltered Marlboro, @JonahDispatch. Now Camels, yeah. I once walked into a convenience store in Provincetown and asked for “Camel straights,” as they’re called, and got a very unexpected response . . .
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In the 1980 BBC production of Hamlet, part of the series the network commissioned of all the Shakespeare plays, Patrick Stewart played Claudius, a role he later repeated on stage.
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A haiku: Screw the Nobel Prize, Given once to troubadour Dylan, what’s it worth?
Yesterday I won the Nobel Prize. I’ll have a burger and fries.
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I’m a dog person, but for National Cat Day, here’s the only cat I ever owned—Daphne, a stray I took indoors in my last semester in college, 1980. She was a good cat.
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Somehow I missed this "controversy" at the time. I guess those discs are now collector's items . . .
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I lived and taught in Milwaukee for one year, 40 years ago. A great town—I’m trying to picture the crazy joy there now.
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When you go for a ten minute power nap and wake up seven hours later.
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Tucked away in an old childhood devotional book of my late brother’s.
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