Connor Ewing
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American Political Thought & Constitutional Development | Assistant Professor of Political Science @UofT | Fellow @Trinity_College | Full-time toddler chaser
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My article is now up on
#FirstView
@APSRjournal
. My hope is that it will be of interest to anyone who works with or thinks about The Federalist, the American founding, or the Constitution.
Here’s a brief 🧵 on its 3 key arguments:
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Zoom has conditioned me to believe that if I don’t like an event or meeting, I can just leave—immediately and without a word to anyone. This will be hard to unlearn.
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Today I get to pay $300 to take a 3-hour English test in order to be eligible to stay in the country where I am employed to teach English language courses at an English language institution, a prerequisite for which was the PhD I earned at an English language university.
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This looks like the third or fourth tweet in a thread that promised to make Sunak look smaller for every 100 likes.
So many things wrong with US politics but in this situation you think they'd just have said, "Mr President, I think we'll do this speech indoors"
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64 of the 100 current members of the US Senate were born when there were fewer than 50 states. There is nothing special about that number.
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It’s a bit hard to stomach all the “I got caught up in the moment” excuses from people who bought plane tickets, got time off work, made hotel reservations, packed their matching tactical gear, flew across the country...and then stormed the Capitol.
That's not how moments work.
"I GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT."
Idaho man says he was the guy hanging from the balcony of the Senate. He's now apologizing to the American people and asking for forgiveness.
Story:
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges”
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Asking me if the syllabus for my Fall course is ready yet is a HIPAA violation
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“Leftovers from the lunch seminar can be found in the grad lounge”
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Dude, you run a tax exempt 501(c)(3) that receives tax deductible donations.
Tax👏breaks👏are👏government👏assistance👏
At
@TPUSA
we are announcing today we are rejecting a potential $1.2M in forgivable loans from the US taxpayer
Accepting any form of government assistance would be in violation of our beliefs at Turning Point USA
We proudly remain independent & stronger than ever
Big Gov Sucks!
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Never has the difference between dogs and cats been more clearly illustrated.
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The mortgage interest deduction has cost ~$750B since 2010 and the vast majority of benefits go to households with incomes over $100k. But tell me again about how redistribution is bad.
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80% of PhDs had the same plan B: open a bookstore. For the other 20%, it was open a bakery.
When I was a PhD student, I had a clearly defined plan B. Everyone should.
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Pulled out all the stops for what I sincerely hope was my last ever recorded lecture.
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Mind-blowing fact of the day: If Bill Clinton (73) announced that he was running for president and jumped on the
@NBCNews
debate stage in Las Vegas tonight, he'd be the second youngest guy on stage and smack dab in the middle of the whole group.
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A university without a philosophy department is not a university.
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There is still time for Werner Herzog to play Hegel in a narrowly acclaimed biopic.
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A gentle reminder that there's still time for Gary Oldman to play John Rawls in a biopic that will appeal to a very small but nonetheless eager audience.
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An economist surveys the relevant literature from other fields.
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To everyone telling me that the Irish Goodbye already exists: I’m (part) Scottish. A proper Scottish Goodbye requires bagpipes and haggis. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
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We thank the reviewers for their constructive and helpful comments, which have significantly improved the quality of our manuscript
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Dear law review that just sent me a rejection for a piece I submitted 4.75 years ago:
Thanks?
Love,
Connor
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My Constitutional Law syllabus is quickly becoming a Constitutional History syllabus.
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This man has singlehandedly set back the humanities by two, maybe three generations.
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I think all papers should have a "Melancholy Reflections" section.
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Can a state disqualify a non-citizen or a 30-year-old from running for president? If so, why can it enforce Art. II but not Sec. 3?
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*whisper voice* no one liked the guy in college who wanted to make every space into a debate hall
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Business should not be an undergraduate major.
What is your academic opinion that would leave people like this?
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My dudes: Your 👏 CV 👏 doesn't 👏 need 👏 a 👏 table 👏 of 👏 contents 👏
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Understood the difference between "less" and "fewer."
Only twelve people have walked on the moon. What’s something less people have done?
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Tip for grad students starting their PhD: Wake up in the middle of the night to like the tweets of your department’s faculty members. That way they’ll think you’re working hard and they’ll know you’re neglecting your well-being like a real academic.
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"I believe that the president has learned from this case...The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson."
- Sen. Susan Collins (Feb. 4, 2020)
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“VIABLE THIRD PARTIES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH AN ELECTORAL SYSTEM STRUCTURED BY SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS AND PLURALITY ELECTION RULES, ANDREW!!”
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Meet Margaret Malis Ewing. Born on April 1 at 3:13pm weighing 6 lb. 5 oz.
Like her mother, Margot is fearless, strong, and beautiful. Like her father, she likes to sleep with her mouth open.
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Just realized I have resting Babydog face.
ICYMI: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has made his dog "babydog" the mascot of the state's new vaccine lottery.
"She wants you vaccinated SO badly"
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The triumph of rationality: Getting the college to approve a 15 week course with 11 guest lecturers. 👏👏👏
My new Harvard course: General Education 1066, "Rationality."
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A perhaps obvious observation: The clearest indication of the pathologies suffusing American constitutional politics is that a reform literally spelled out in the Constitution and clearly granted to Congress—changing the size of the Court—is seen as unconscionably radical.
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Gaetz loses interest in anything over 18 years old.
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Just be happy The New Yorker didn’t buy Wordle. You think you could get “coöpt” in 6 chances?
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What a stupid time to be alive.
Don’t tread on Florida, and don’t mess with gas stoves!
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Doug Emhoff is the head-nodder every professor wants in their class.
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Breaches of the Capitol building in US history:
• 1814: the British, during the War of 1812
• 2021: Trump supporters, after losing an election
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The best fashion advice I can give: Go thrifting in the fancy part of town. Rich people give away good stuff.
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I still can’t quite believe that a bunch of politicians in multiple states looked at their own university systems, saw that they were the envy of the world, and said, “Nah.”
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Evidence of teaching effectiveness.
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“Leftovers from the lunch seminar can be found in the grad lounge”
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What my current
#workflow
looks like:
1. Sit down to read
2. Immediately think of a different article that might be relevant
3. Look up article
4. Find an interesting looking NEW article
5. Look up author & their current institution
6. Imagine teaching *there*
7. Fire up Zillow
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Gotta hand it to him—in less than 280 characters he managed to convey a complete misunderstanding of both game theory and moral philosophy.
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@AliaGvR
@MollyJongFast
Yes, positions are advertised on Twitter. But I have never seen another instance where applications could be submitted directly to a member of the college's board of trustees, much less to his Proton Mail account.
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Omicron’s silver lining: That thing you said you’d do before the pandemic ended—the book you were going to write, the skill you were going to master, or the language you were going to learn? You have another year to do it!
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"Does Dobbs imperil Obergefell/Lawrence/etc?" strikes me as the wrong question. As Dobbs itself revealed, the Court doesn’t *need* much of anything beyond a majority to overrule precedents, especially when the jurisprudential differences between coalitions are truly fundamental.
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@ProfSamKamin
Doctor who follows medical protocols and common sense while awaiting test results for highly infectious virus.
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THERE ARE LOTS OF GREAT IDEAS FOR REFORMING CONGRESS BUT TERM LIMITS ISN'T ONE OF THEM, TRAVIS.
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You, a citizen: American politics is a complex amalgam of democracy and—
Me, an expert: American politics is a system in which 158M people vote for a combined 542 federal offices before we ask a guy from West Virginia and a lady from Arizona what they would like to do.
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You’re going to have to pry 2145661.pdf and 2145661 (1).pdf from my cold, dead hands.
Nothing stronger than the bond between an academic and the downloaded articles they will never delete or read
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"Thrilled to announce" would be a bit of an understatement for this. I'll have more to say about the article soon, but for now I'm just grateful for everyone who provided feedback along the way, the thoughtful (and tough!) reviewers, and the diligent editorial team at APSR.
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A 4-7 football team named “Football Team” just beat the undefeated Steelers. Welcome to 2020.
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"Literacy tests weren't that hard, actually" misses the point completely. They were administered by & at the discretion of political officials who opposed Black voting rights. They required satisfying the whims of the segregationist & the klansman. They existed to disenfranchise.
Absolutely losing it over this old Slate article that calls a Louisiana voting literacy test from the 60s "impossible"
Spoiler: the issue of its usage aside, the test was not impossible
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The road to a SCOTUS clerkship starts at 3 Ivy League schools...
And the road to those Ivy League schools starts at a handful of elite prep schools...
And the road to those elite prep schools starts with parents who went to 3 Ivy Leave schools...
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This isn’t surprising for anyone who’s read Augustine in the original Esperanto.
Reading the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, in Hebrew. This text’s word choices give a significantly different picture of Jesus, than do English translations from Greek or Latin. This Gospel depict a Jewish rabbi engaged in recognizably Jewish scholarly activities, and the later
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First Republic // Second Republic
Third Republic // Fourth Republic
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Just in time for the annual review: my greatest accomplishment of AY 2020-21. 🍍🍍🍍
Thanks,
@ratemyskyperoom
!
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Broke: Defund the police.
Woke: Impose a vaccine mandate on the police and they’ll quit en masse.
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The chasm between that first and second sentence would make even Evel Knievel think twice.
Mathematician & physicist Blaise Pascal famously said there's a God-shaped hole in the heart of every man. If you don't pledge allegiance to the American flag, you'll be tempted to pledge allegiance to another instead. The thing that distinguishes man from other animals is our
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“I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions.”
When you want a modern house but also really like castles.
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