Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 5hwww.chronicle.com/article/how-...chronicle.comHow to Assign Research Papers AgainThree ways to counter AI and restore confidence in the integrity of student writing. 032
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7hThis photo is amazing (I guess props to Senator Kennedy for helping hold the incriminating evidence...) 2173
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 12hThis partly reflects the broader social-media-driven nationalization of politics, whereby Schmitt thought he was going to get a profile boost from this. But it also reflects the personalistic control of Trump, whereby they know his attention is grabbed by Fox News sound bites. 65110
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 15hNote that there is little evidence that this worked in 2024. 0121
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 15hLike Paxton, Ramaswamy is an awful candidate whose only virtue was fealty to Trump. Despite claims otherwise, Trump is also a bad politician with terrible campaign and legislative instincts. He will have left a legacy of destruction for the Republican Party. 1161
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16hI sincerely understand why people would want to see this man in prison and would are angry he was pardoned. But shaming politicians (and judges, prosecutors) for showing mercy is a dangerous path that can lead to untenable outcomes and I wish we didn't do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...nytimes.comA Tough Ad Reminds Nebraska Voters About a Brutal Crime and a Pardon (Gift Article)A group supporting Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, is airing an ad attacking Senator Pete Ricketts, a Republican, for pardoning a man convicted of sexual assault. 160
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality. 1125680
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Because he's shredded all norms and only sees the world as friends or enemies, Trump has been using taxpayer $$$ for political propaganda long before putting those ads out this weekend. What do you call it when Natalie Harp (a government employee) is pushing pro-Trump slop on social media all day? 22912
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a bygone world (i.e., before January 2025), this would have been a scandal of epic proportions, causing us to question to mental acumen of the President. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u... 0359
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We are not past Trump yet, and this is a good reminder of how we have to collectively act to make it to the other side. 313830
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Governing" in the United States has devolved into the President doing stuff and then the country holding its breath to see how the Supreme Court reacts. 2287
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The GOP seems to have gone all in on the "it's all Biden's fault" strategy, which is sorta cosmically ironic because, even if it were true, Donald Trump's political survival is the perfect demonstration that voters have very short memories. 351
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026More than 1 in 4 *Trump voters* say the country is worse off than it was four years ago. 1124950
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One take on Netanyahu's speech at the UN yesterday was that it demonstrated how central anti-Muslim bigotry is to the right-wing in both the United States and Israel (and, incidentally, the far-right in many (most?), European countries). 3363
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is the strangest thing in the world that the President of the United States has unconcealed crushes on every dictator he encounters. 5429
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Surprised this was written without mentioning that it was collected before Collins got it by a major scandal. 1182
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026*And* he's still trending down. Unless the vibes dramatically change he will be even more unpopular at election day. 0112
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It wasn't just the media. Had you walked into a Harvard faculty meeting at the time, the entire discussion was basically, "the world has rejected us, we must change to survive". 3252
Reposted by Ryan EnosJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026These are still some of the most amazing graphs ever published in a political science book. From: Edward Tufte. 1978. Political Control of the Economy. Princeton University Press. 45913
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I am all for disruption. But it is interesting to me that a constant drumbeat from Silicon Valley is that higher education is not working...even though they are all a direct reflection of it's value and is if American higher education isn't the envy of the world.... 2579
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of the most abject failures of Trumpism is that the United States was the winner. For better or worse, the world order had been built to serve American purposes. Because Trump has a middle-school understanding of politics and history, he didn't see this, and so we've torn it down. 1213
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I miss the old days when the UN was just superpowers banging their shoes on the table. 181
Reposted by Ryan EnosMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/09/2026‘How far back in time can you understand English?’ HT @jobium.bsky.socialdeadlanguagesociety.comHow far back in time can you understand English?An experiment in language change 0227
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know politics has corrupted me because I'm a Cal fan and I can actively feel the Schadenfreude while watching this. 140
Reposted by Ryan EnosG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/09/2026When one party releases a butt load of internals that tends to predict the national environment favors them. This year Democratic internal polls account for the largest share of internals on record — more than in 2018, 2006 and 2008 613231
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Please read this. And consider it, not only in the light of the United States recently selling Israel billions of dollars of bombs enabling exactly this, but in the context of the never-ending military campaign against Palestinians enabled by dollars provided by American citizens. 1168
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Congratulations Dodgers. To put it in perspective, the last time you didn't make the playoffs we were still a full democracy with a functioning legislative branch. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/... 062
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Like clockwork, every election cycle, somebody suddenly discovers that survey respondents have ideologically incoherent policy positions (this has been a bedrock finding of political science for over 60 years). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Why So Many Voters Hate Both Parties (Gift Article)Most voters have messier views than their partisan labels would suggest. 724734
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's a staggering example of the corrupting power of authoritarianism that this institution, which the President had no legal authority over, falls victim to his narcissism. Can Trump slap his name on the Statue of Liberty? His face on Mount Rushmore? Can he demolish them if we say no? 1268
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm always cautious because Texas is like the run-away bride for Democrats, but Michael is right that if this is true, it is really a big deal. 071
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don't know how AI should fit into higher education - none of us quite do exactly. But this is definitely worth reading and considering as we are trying to figure it out. 171
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Shocked, shocked that starting a war in the Middle East was destabilizing. 0171
Reposted by Ryan EnosNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BOSTON: for Constitution Day tomorrow, @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I will be talking judicial supremacy and its critics with @bostonglobe.com reporter Brian MacQuarrie at Old South Meeting House at 7 PM. See you there! 2254
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tens of thousands of civilians dead in the past three years. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... 1042399
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But, see, with the $5,000 bonus coming your way, that isn't so bad. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/o...cnbc.comConsumers hit by one-two punch of oil and rates from Iran war. The estimated bill is $1,700 per householdRising oil prices and Treasury yields are lifting energy and borrowing costs for U.S. households, pushing consumers to draw more heavily on savings. 1111
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This speaks to an odd duality of faux-populism where the political right whips the left for imagined "faculty-lounge" politics, but then, given the keys to the newsroom, they replace it with something much closer to the imagined faculty-lounge politics, and it is hugely unpopular. 3223
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Political Analytics 2026 is in three weeks. Free tickets available for academics. You can contact me. politicalanalyticsconference.compoliticalanalyticsconference.comPolitical Analytics 2026are the numbers on the wall? October 8th & 9th, 2026 | Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. More details & registration information to follow 022
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In cultural revolution fashion, Americans are reported for their unpatriotic speech, and the federal government threatens to use the state to punish them (supposedly to honor the legacy of a free speech crusader). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u... 093
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026All of these guys have way less money than Ed Sheeran. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...nbcnews.comFinneas and other acts exit Ed Sheeran tour in protest of Macklemore being dropped over pro-Palestinian remarksAll of Sheeran’s listed openers have left the tour after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft worked to have Macklemore removed. 33911
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We have always understood that the Court is guided by ideology, but imagined that there were limits to that or, at least, the guiding ideology wasn't so extreme. But Thomas and Alito seem to have embraced an ideology of right-wing authoritarianism and their opinions will be in service to it. 6596
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"The last time we had a guy protesting, he had the curtesy to carry a Mexican flag, so that we knew where he stood," says Vance as the protestor is forcibly removed. Think about that. 051
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Site to see all the random properties Harvard owns. For example, apparently Harvard owns this place: harvardplanning.emuseum.com/sites 2143
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026By the way, here are the lyrics to the song Macklemore was performing that caused him to be dropped from the tour. 26515
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is such a sad casualty of the politicization of science. Project implicit has been a tremendous source of scientific knowledge with remarkable multiplicative effects. And it was killed because the vibes felt too close to DEI when everybody decided they had to run away from that. 1142
Reposted by Ryan EnosMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder - despite our neverending National Conversation™️ - that there are <exactly zero> societal institutions that are <more protective> of free speech & viewpoint diversity & the marketplace of ideas than colleges & universities. 220942
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Sheeran is a millionaire and doesn't need Kraft's money. He should have told him to pound sand and then performed a free concert in Boston Common (and also sued him for breach of contract). 36212
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Think about the argument - made deliberately - that the President will not do his job unless we laud him like a king. 2194
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What does he mean by this statement? That we should shun people who provide legal counsel to people accused of heinous crimes? That studying the sociopolitical fallout of 9/11 is somehow an affront to the values of a university? A shameful statement. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...insidehighered.comUCLA Chancellor Criticizes Law School’s Sept. 11 SymposiumUCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk last week denounced a Sept. 11 symposium at his institution’s law school, which promoted a panel featuring the attorney who represented Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, described in... 0133
