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Jeffery Tyler Syck

@jtylersyck.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pikeville. 8th Generation Kentuckian. Presbyterian.

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Sean Gill @seangill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"In theory, almost all Americans profess to be pluralist liberals. In reality, both the left and right struggle to accept those they find unsavory" @jtylersyck.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/10/dani...
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Lesson for Liberalism - Providence
Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that to form a pluralist society—one in which all traditions and ethnicities thrive—we must abandon our utopian visions
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Why does the political center feel hollow today? Centrism promises compromise, balance, and reason—but modern politics rewards passion, grievance, and identity. This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Why does the political center feel hollow today? Centrism promises compromise, balance, and reason—but modern politics rewards passion, grievance, and identity. This is why the center struggles and what they could do to fix it. A thread 🧵
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Providence Magazine @provmagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Rory Stewart’s “Politics on the Edge” describes at length the failures of both David Cameron’s center-right neoliberalism and Boris Johnson’s populism, yet leaves the reader with hope for a renewed political future. @jtylersyck.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/07/a-ca...
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A Call for Realism, Love, Localism, and Democracy: Review of Rory Stewart’s “Politics on the Edge” - Providence
Rory Stewart's "Politics on the Edge" describes at length the failures of both David Cameron's center-right neoliberalism and Boris Johnson's populism, yet leaves the reader with hope for a renewed po...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 19/08/2025
Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social Universities are ground zero in the culture wars, but we must not let that obscure deeper issues kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/19/t...
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The problem of mass produced education • Kentucky Lantern
Biggest issues beleaguering higher education are systemic rather than ephemeral demographic disruptions or ideological capture.
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Blue Travel Channel 📸 @bluetravelchannel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🦌The extraordinary white deer in Sweden 🇸🇪
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 04/06/2025
Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, they might find it by focusing on the economy. kentuckylantern.com/2025/06/04/c...
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Can this two-party system be saved?  • Kentucky Lantern
If Democrats have a path back to relevance in Eastern Kentucky, it's the economy. They should offer solutions to the region's housing and jobs crises.
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I have unintentionally become a character on Frasier. This morning I ordered a nonfat latte with a "spritz of sugar free vanilla and a dusting of cinnamon" while showing off a custom made dress shirt to a friend.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 02/01/2025
Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social For many principals and superintendents, social studies classes are simply the dumping ground for patronage appointments and athletic coaches, especially in rural KY where school districts are often the largest employer. kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/02/s...
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Shore up social studies education to shore up American democracy • Kentucky Lantern
Better social studies education requires good teachers, more resources and a thoughtful curriculum. Nothing less than U.S. democracy is at stake.
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Shore up social studies education to shore up American democracy • Kentucky Lantern
Better social studies education requires good teachers, more resources and a thoughtful curriculum. Nothing less than U.S. democracy is at stake.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 10/01/2025
Commentary by @jtylersyck.bsky.social Religious freedom has never protected moral barbarism. kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/10/n...
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No place in Kentucky for the abomination that is conversion therapy • Kentucky Lantern
In the modern political climate, culture war battles are a dime a dozen. Whether it’s immigration or school choice or transgender bathrooms, the average voter can easily get lost in the sea of discont...
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Britton Williams @brittonvance.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
America’s fracturing conservative fusionism, the alliance between free marketers, social conservatives, and foreign policy hawks, has me thinking about New Zealand’s own fusionist experiment. In 2023, the country saw its first three-party coalition. Let’s take a look. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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The key players in New Zealand's new government
New Zealand's National Party, ACT New Zealand and New Zealand First Friday signed a coalition agreement and will be sworn in as the 54th government on Monday.
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
John Quincy Adams is America’s Edmund Burke. By this, I do not mean that he is the founder of American conservativism but something far deeper. Adams understood and articulated the cultural tradition that is America – our ideas, hopes, and history – better than any other thinker.
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
This is quite possibly the most professor outfit I have ever worn.
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
My latest piece: "The time has come for the right to discover the greatness of the New Deal and to improve it. Rather than ceaselessly caterwauling about Roosevelt’s imagined despotism." Check it out below! www.theamericanconservative.com/conserving-t...
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
My latest article in Law and Liberty: "The religious wars of the early modern period or the cruel despotism of modern Iran should give us some idea of what life becomes when the state adopts an official answer to all important questions." lawliberty.org/old-mistakes...
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
“Liberals are people who would like to see things improved, and conservatives are people who would like to see things not worsened. And anyone who does not have a bit of both does not have their head screwed on right.” - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
"Strive not though to become a god. The things of mortals best befit mortality." - Pindar
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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The biggest coup that (IR) realists ever achieved was getting us to agree to call their theory “realism.” Why did we ever agree to that? Can we take it back?
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Though Mozart has probably written my favorite composition and Pachelbel the piece that most moves me, Tchaikovsky is the composer I return to more often than any other. His grand, sweeping, melodies are irresistible to me.
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
"Men today are less divided than some imagine. They fight constantly about who should wield power, but they agree readily as to the duties and rights of that sovereignty. All conceive of government in terms of an unrivaled, simple, providential, and creative power." - Alexis De Tocqueville
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Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
"Make all men enemies but not the gods." - Aeschylus
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