iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Many, many people are surprised to learn" this principally because it isn't true. Montesquieu is cited more times (11) in more essays (4) than Plutarch (3, 3). Heck, the Abbé de Mably is cited as often as Plutarch. And what do citations even tell us? Locke isn't cited at all...

1517546

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TIL about the Danish Grading System's 7-Point Grading Scale. Which ranges from -3 to 12. And has grades A, B, C, D, E, Fx, and F.

071

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sure this headline could not have been any harsher. Oh wait, I'm being told—

5203

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Schmitt: Were you or were you not born in a crossfire hurricane? Smith: I was not. Schmitt: So you're telling us—under oath—that you weren't raised by a toothless, bearded hag? Smith: That is Jumpin' Jack Flash.

430442

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As I've been saying: Hegseth will run for president, and he'll run the most explicitly Christian Nationalist campaign since Gerald L. K. Smith

180

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ll say this: Among living presidents, Donald Trump would almost certainly finish in the top 5.

3132

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Late September 2016? Yup, that's about right.

030

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great idea. Can’t think of a single way this could be abused.

0318

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I send you this picture, just know that I hit my funny bone and it was NOT funny.

020

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A headline so bad they actually changed it.

193

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reviews are in...and I think we might actually have something here.

2150

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy Constitution Day to all who (are compelled by Section 111(b) of Division J of Public Law 108-447 to) observe!

1013634

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Great new piece by (the currently-on-the-job-market!) Daniel Blinderman.

0134

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's a potent long-form piece about the GOP in miniature to be written here. If you've followed TX politics over the past few years, you've seen how the threat of an "immigrant invasion" gave way to the spectre of sharia law, which then metastasized into a broader, blunter ethnonationalism.

23119

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Of course I'm not deceiving you. It's a good idea for you to join this edited volume. Why would I deceive you?"

0317

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1996: Welfare-to-work 2026: Welfare-to-not-work

295

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Papers were given & discussed, books met their critics, colleagues were celebrated & memorialized, old friends were seen, new friends were made, & awards were given & received. All around, a successful APSA. And now, time for a nap.

071

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And on Saturday, Sept. 5 from 4-5:30 I will be discussing some of the truly excellent papers on a panel on State Formation across Time and Space.

010

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Saturday, Sept. 5 from 2-3:30 my colleague and coauthor Rob Vipond and I will be presenting our paper, "From Repudiation to Convergence: Disharmonic Development in Canada and the US" on a panel on Approaches to Political-Historical Analysis.

100

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Saturday, Sept. 5 from 10-11:30, I'll be presenting on the tensions between democracy and political development in a session on Democracy and Legality with Richard Pildes, Ben Johnson, and Jordan Rudinsky.

110

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Thursday, Sept. 3 from 12-1:30, I'll be chairing an author-meets-critics on Thomas Bell's fantastic book The Constitution of Conflict, with comments by @juliaazari.bsky.social, @cbambrick.bsky.social, @joshchafetz.bsky.social, George Thomas, & Jeff Tulis.

152

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And (finally!) on Saturday, Sept. 5 from 12-1:30pm, we have a panel on Rebuilding American Democracy: Race, Freedom, and Futurity, featuring papers by Deva Woodly, Aziz Rana, Keidrick Roy, Brandon Terry, and Jennet Kirkpatrick.

020

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Saturday, Sept. 5 from 10-11:30am, we have a panel on Exploring Constitutional Disputes and Ambiguities from the Founding to Today, with papers by Jordan Cash, Hance Winingham, Joe Natali, Brigid Flaherty Staab, and Garrett Jeffrey Jones.

120

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Saturday, Sept. 5 from 8-9:30am, we have a panel on Democratic Temperaments: America amidst Modernity, with papers by Alec Arellano, Nicholas Anderson, Christopher Duncan, and Ethan Cutler.

120

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Friday, Sept. 4 from 4-5:30pm, we have an author-meets-critics on @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, with comments by Susan McWilliams Barndt, Shep Melnick, Russ Muirhead, Anne Norton, and Kristen Collins.

120

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Friday, Sept. 4 from 2-3pm, we have an author-meets-critics on @democracyprof.bsky.social's The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. Commenting will be Jeffrey Tulis, Jason Frank, Emily Zackin, & Angelica Maria Bernal.

151

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On Friday, Sept. 4 from 12-1:30 we have an author-meets-critics on Jeremy Bailey's new book, The Other Declarations: Thomas Jefferson and the Language of American Democracy, featuring comments from George Thomas, Thomas Merrill, and Susan McWilliams Barndt.

120

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*Narrator*: The federal government had not, in fact, started this project. The President did—unilaterally.

0238

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

2685696709

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ngl—Chat's music suggestions are pretty, pretty, pretty good

040

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sunrise, a lingering moon & (at the far left) Lake ONTARIO

080

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Did he...copy the 1948 Schlesinger poll and add in a couple contemporary presidents?

109923

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is, truly, beautiful. One could not produce such a demented and multifariously flawed hierarchy unless they were regularly in communion with the Muses.

11507

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pity the poor staffer who will have to explain to Trump what a hydronym is.

414037

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Alright, Google. Let's see if you're still a bunch of cowardly pissants.

2144

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The last step before desk rejection!

050

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not-so-friendly reminder: "Competitive" is not a satisfactory response for the salary range

271

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🥳 Thrilled to announce that I've been named one of the 10 Most Influential Leaders Transforming Education! All I have to do is pay a small "participation fee" of $3,500. #blessed