Jonathan here:
First of all, it’s just me and Julia on the audio, with David unfortunately unavailable (and if you missed his item this week, it was excellent). This was is open to all, but we do hope y’all will consider stepping up to a paid subscription — and we thanks a bunch of new subscribers for coming on board.
Second: feel free to skip down, but I haven’t done a proper introduction to these weekly links for a while. I used to do daily links to all kinds of stuff, but when I stopped blogging daily I cut back to weekly links and only to political scientists. To be clear: Journalists do great work! (That’s why when I put GP/BP together I wanted to have one of them). As do other public-facing academics, and there are still a few old-style bloggers out there (in addition to the ones I’m linking to). But political scientists are my (relevant to this at any rate) tribe, and so I’ve that’s where I’m going. As it is, it’s a lot harder to keep up with everything than it was in the old days. I hope I’m helping to make fewer things fall through the cracks. Oh, and public-facing policital scientists: If I’m not linking to you here, please let me know about it! Odds are strong I just missed it; I don’t always link to everything I see for a variety of reasons, but I also know that I miss stuff.
At any rate: I suppose it’s not surprising that there’s a lot this week. Enjoy the pod, and enjoy the links.
1. Elizabeth N. Saunders at Good Authority on Trump and foreign policy.
2. Also at Good Authority: John Sides on what happened in the presidential election. There’s more at GA; I can’t recommend the site highly enough, even though I only grab one or two a week.
3. Dave Karpf on the US going forward.
4. Henry Farrell on the post-election situation.
5. Tom Pepinsky on living through what’s coming in the US.
6. Laura Blessing on where we are now.
7. Matt Glassman’s first thoughts on the election and what will follow. As far as the new Trump presidency, I think my own sense swings wildly from Matt’s gloomy but not entirely cataclysmic outlook to Tom Pepinsky’s even more pessimistic view. I guess I’d say that both are plausible.
8. Seth Masket’s first thoughts on the election. (I’m sorry, Seth and everyone else; I just don’t have the energy right now to introduce all of these with properly tempting links. Look: These are all very smart people. You don’t need my clever wording to click through, right?)
9. Natalie Jackson on what the polls were telling us.
10. And Miranda Yaver on teaching health care policy now.
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