by jpitney | Mar 21, 2023 | Higher Education, Public Service
Greetings from Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy! As our school year winds down in Malibu, we’re excited to return to Washington, DC for our newly endowed, Czyzyk DC Scholars Program! Intended for rising undergrad juniors, seniors, and recent grads,...
by jpitney | Mar 20, 2023 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, Public Opinion
Kevin Kosar and John Maxwell Hamilton at AEI: It is one thing to inveigh against the other side of the aisle, and quite another for individuals on the fringes to argue excluding the great mass of Americans from the political process. One way to organize such an...
by jpitney | Mar 19, 2023 | Civility
Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker at WP: “I think now calls for a different style of leadership,” Pence had explained hours earlier in Manchester, during an interview with The Washington Post. “I think this time also calls for a return to the threshold of civility...
by jpitney | Mar 18, 2023 | Claremont McKenna College, Crime
Anne Bergman at CMC: It wasn’t long after joining the government department at Claremont McKenna in 2021, that Prof. Michael Fortner formed an indelible impression of CMC students. “They’re intellectually curious,” said Fortner, who is teaching “Introduction to...
by jpitney | Mar 17, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives
Zach Warmbrodt and Eleanor Mueller at Politico: A young Patrick McHenry rose through the House GOP by bashing the government’s economic rescue plans in the wake of the global financial crisis. In 2008, the conservative North Carolinian — a self-described...
