- Jon Bernstein’s blog is now 2 years old. It is, pound for pound, the best blog by a political scientist writing about American politics. And one of your better blogs about American politics, period. Everyone should be reading it.
- Sarah Binder’s Spidey-sense is tingling. Uh oh.
- Seth Masket: Mickey Edwards might be right to dislike divisive partisanship, but his solutions won’t work.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter inaugurates Notes from the Foreign Policy Frontier at the Atlantic.
- Dan Drezner: Can an IR theory be killed? Really just another excuse for him to mention zombies.
- Shankar Vedantam channels polisci. Shorter version: it’s the institutions!
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Jon’s blog is great, and lately he’s been on a roll – he had a post that used a Firefly metaphor to explain GOP infighting on the debt crisis, then did a series of posts using XTC song titles as subject headers.
Jon’s blog is indeed great. The interesting thing is that his career as a political scientist, as far as I can tell, is an almost complete disaster. No tenure track job, and virtually no peer-reviewed academic publications (as far as I know). But he integrates academic findings into his blog better than almost anyone. Blogging is truly the medium in which his brilliance shines forth. I’m not quite sure to what make of that. Would or should that blog alone be sufficient to grant him tenure at a low-ranked academic institution? I don’t know. Honestly, it’s more insightful and even analytically rigorous than a lot of peer-reviewed stuff I read in the lesser journals.
At any rate, I remember discovering his blog in the first month or two of operation, and thinking to myself that it was one of the best sources of commentary on US politics out there, and deserved a wider audience. Gratifying to see that it’s now widely recognized. Maybe Jonathan should go into journalism full-time, and just bag his teaching gig.