Political Science Professor at Marquette. Constitutional history & Administrative Law. Writing a book on the Steel Seizure case. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com
Website: https://patsobkowski.com/
Pat Sobkowski
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My tribute to the late Gordon Wood for @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
RIP Gordon Wood, whose “Creation,” p.562, is worth a reread any day, esp. today: “the Federalists fixed the terms for the future discussion of American politics …. and created a distinctly American political theory but only at the cost of eventually impoverishing later American political thought.”
Rest in peace, sir.
some my favorite Gordon Wood quotes:
“History does not teach lots of little lessons. Insofar as it it teaches any lessons, it teaches only one big one: that nothing ever works out quite the way its managers intended or expected.”
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Schoolhouse Rock is a cute cartoon, but in my opinion, it vastly oversimplifies American politics and the sheer amount of people exposed to the simplistic illustration has downstream effects that… aren’t great.
Andy Craig at the Unpopulist @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net on the great Gordon Wood.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-histor...
