Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
Christopher McKnight Nichols
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Lots of historians are skeptical of "new Gilded Age" analogies but at least turning to figures like Elon Musk, likely passing the threshold as the world's first billionaire, & comparing to the excesses & exploitative wealth accumulation of the Robber Barons, there's much to recommend a comparison.🗃️
At a great event for Global Ethics Day a few years ago @mershoncenter.bsky.social, off the cuff, on the Carnegie Council's Doorstep podcast we began to address themes about capital accumulation and the ethics of billionaires. They clipped a few of my comments here youtu.be/rUwt_t6tD40?...
This is a theme I've pursued in my writings and a few amicus curiae briefs. The "mirror" image of political representation was a commonplace of Revolutionary era thinking. A decision that violates it is inconsistent with the original intent of the Framers.
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Louisiana v. Callais and now Allen v. Milligan have laid bare the court’s fundamental misinterpretation of the Voting Rights Act.
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Jack Rakove
Political Science 101: Political scientist Phillip Converse wrote "The nature of belief systems in mass publics" a long time ago that people hold ideologically incoherent beliefs.
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