Is statesmanship compatible with constitutional government? In this article, I probe FDR's leadership during WWII to better specify the limits, possibilities, and ambivalences of statesmanship in the American constitutional order.
@RichardHanania
Sad, if Chicago bows to the mob, there’s hardly any institution that can stand. You could argue JJM’s been concerned about Ukraine a lot longer than these students, who apparently just discovered lectures he’s been giving on the subject for 6 yrs. Debate JJM, don’t cancel him
Thanks for clarifying, CENTCOM. For a second there I almost thought you did something useful in the AOR. Good to know your hands are still tied rescuing parts of that asinine pier.
Only time I’ve ever wondered if we should have kept Israel in EUCOM.
CENTCOM Statement Regarding IDF Rescue Operations Today
The humanitarian pier facility, including its equipment, personnel, and assets were not used in the operation to rescue hostages today in Gaza. An area south of the facility was used by the Israelis to safely return the
@ishapiro
Right on point. Also, makes me wonder if we simply didn’t advertise well enough your wonderful talk to our FedSoc chapter a couple months back. Jk
@jaywillis
You clearly don’t understand the chronology of events, or you’re saying something more amazing: a person gets poked for 45 minutes, finally says “stop poking me,” then we blame the victim of the poking.
Non-Jew cosplays as self-loathing Jew to prove that if you’re a fake Jew at a tiny college in NJ on a Sunday afternoon, you may not be physically assaulted. And then the non-Jew says Jews should be thanking him.
#soBrave
Class act. This is absolutely deranged
I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭
Actually, the problem is _The Israeli Lobby_ is a *repudiation,* not a reflection, of their structural realist logic. Structural realism (post-Waltz) claims it can explain state behavior without dipping below structural variables (anarchy, polarity, distro of capes).
The Mearsheimer-Walt theory that US foreign policy is manipulated by an Israel Lobby follows from the "realist" dogma (from academic international relations theory) in which states act only to exert power. This blinds them to many other reasons Americans support Israel, argues
In this month's print edition of
@TheNatlInterest
(online version released today), I observe that though Biden aspires to be a modern-day FDR, our domestic politics aren't ripe for a new New Deal. [1/5]
@RyanDEnos
I think you’ve got it rather backwards: reasonable people can disagree about who is entitled to bully the universities, but we should all resist universities selectively invoking free speech policies when those on campus call for Jewish genocide
Guys, the vibes in the Stanford encampment are AMAZING!
They’ve set up a flea market, they’re playing music, they’re reading…
“The students in the camp are agents of their own learning!”
The spring volume of Texas National Security Review included my article on FDR, WWII, and constitutional statesmanship. Been told it may be "TL;DR."
Recently, had the chance to give an abbreviated version on the Horns of Dilemma podcast. Have a listen!
@mattyryze
@BillAckman
@Harvard
That’s in no way uncommon or disfavored by the law. In fact, it’s encourage for reasons of judicial economy - organizations have capacities to sue so many plaintiffs don’t congest the courts with separate but similar cases
My latest in
@WarOnTheRocks
: "While subtweets and op-eds are perhaps less crude than delivering a speech at a party convention, each leaves little doubt in the minds of partisans about whom the retired generals are rooting for or against come Nov." 1/2
@DanielDiMartino
But his wanna-be Kissingerian “resolution” to the Russo-Ukrainian War (Kiev’s capitulation) that reads like a clever high-school essay? That’s a sticky point for me
@samhaselby
Didn’t think the principle underlying spousal hiring is equity. It’s a bargain - school typically really wants one and induces that one to come by offering position for spouse. Or school likes them both, in which case there’s no special inducement on part of school
Ah, yes, the “get of jail free” paragraph whereby if all my other conclusions are wrong, this one saves my theory. That one para (in original TNI paper) and one chapter (in book-length extension) renders the End of History entirely unfalsifiable.
But it’s still brilliant work
@tab_delete
I’ve worked in that office. The charge (or, information) is not a commitment to prosecute. I’m sure if your characterization of the purpose for which the reporter was there is remotely accurate, it will be dropped before a preliminary hearing. No injustice is done with charge
Thanks
@LexiOHudson
of
@CivicRen1
for hosting a wonderful convo today with Tocqueville’s ancestors at chateau de
@TocquevilleFDN
. Talk of mores, democracy, and “tyranny of the minority” gave this 19th c. writing fresh resonance. Thanks
@braverangels
for sponsoring!
@sstrawser0621
@tab_delete
Naw. That’s like saying entertaining the possibility of criminal action against an (actually) innocent is, on its face, rank authoritarianism. Charges are often the beginning of a criminal investigation, not the end. Absolutism like your rule is no way to dispense justice
@CaseyMattox_
For the record, the Federalist Society has never staked our a position in a case, let alone been a litigant. So, that parenthetical in the last line is a red herring
@BillKristol
Problem is he never sat for the daily presidential update brief nor listened to or trusted his Intel chiefs. He wouldn’t know anything about Area 51
Shout-out to my editor for this piece,
@DoyleKHodges
. A true professional who's great at his job, he helped me put these ideas down in logically consistent and intelligible ways. Uncanny editorial assistance from War on the Rocks staff, really.
“…are you a Zionist?”
“Yes.”
“Then we are enemies.”
“A place that was supposed to be a sanctuary from such unreason has become a factory for it.”
Poignant essay by Theo Baker (
@tab_delete
) based on extensive and careful interviews.
The kids are not all right.
.
@Stanford
has been consumed since 10/7. Rival protest encampments grew large enough to be seen in satellite images of the school. Students are told they support genocide for wearing kippahs, and accused of terrorism for wearing keffiyehs. My latest:
@OrinKerr
I (half) joke. I’m trying to place a 17k-word article in a poli sci or history journal; not a lot of options. I think the freedom to write 100 pages makes many law articles too wordy, but the succinctness of poli sci articles means the evidence often sits in an online supplement.
@ishapiro
Like casinos, there’s no such thing as secular time in an airport. It’s always 5 o’clock when you’re preparing to sit in a middle seat for hours next to strangers who don’t know the rules of polite society governing armrest use.
Indeed. They demand a “permanent ceasefire” because they’re too historically ignorant to call for an armistice. And then they’re too cowardly to say that rather than an armistice, they really demand Israel’s unconditional surrender to an enemy that will never cease fire.
Kind of ridiculous that the Palestine protesters adopted the word "ceasefire", not realizing that that means a temporary pause, and then had to awkwardly pivot to "permanent ceasefire", which isn't a thing anyone says
@mattyryze
@BillAckman
@Harvard
No, I’m not. Organizational standing is distinct from a class-action suit. Are you seriously arguing about things you know nothing about?
@PatPorter76
Back to Copeland’s theory of future trade expectations. Sometimes interdependence fosters peace, sometimes conflict. The vulnerability to cutoff is real.
@GreenPlusAnE
@SWGoldman
I think he’s kinda slippery on this point. That’s certainly the way he (re)characterizes the thesis in Identity book but it seems post hoc. Benefit of relying on Hegelian dialectics (which I’ve never read Hegel to be doing) is you get away with Hegelian obscurantism (wiggle room)
@MarkBegich
It’s a clear message that rank-choice voting introduces severe collection action problems that voters don’t yet know how to cope with. Not a clear message that they’re suddenly Democrats.
Marc Trachtenberg — political science’s gain, history’s loss. I think the only place for diplomatic and military historians in the US is now at professional military education (PME) institutions and service academies. Shame
When I was at UCLA, I had a political science professor who was near retirement and told us he was a "refugee" from the history department. He studied the Cold War, and there was no interest in that in history departments anymore because every research agenda had to revolve
@ishapiro
I mean, this is deplorable, no doubt. Then again, DJT celebrated this kind of breach, only at the Capitol. Will the American people tolerate that? Election could turn on which kind of protest people despise most, I guess
@GabrielGlickman
@PatPorter76
@WarOnTheRocks
A rare instance of a review and a response sharpening one another, clarifying the amorphous, and bringing to the surface the genuinely intractable elements of the debate over the character, conduct, and consequences of liberal world order.
Not “period.” Proportionality test in the law of war requires weighing (1) the military advantage gained, against (2) the incidental civilian harm. We can hardly ever say something was “disproportionate” per this text. Without knowing either (1) or (2), we can’t even begin to
Still waiting for all the student campers — you know, those concerned about a famine in Gaza, desirous of peace, not at all rooting for Jew-hating terrorists — to condemn the attack on the U.S. pier being built to get aid to Palestinians. Any minute now…
For a genuinely realist account of all of USFP, see
@Copela1492
’s new book: The World Safe for Commerce. About the only realist left standing when it comes to the US case.
@JulianWaller
I can see how this is useful bc comprehensive. But also distorting. I think the schema encompasses about 25 very online people. So each online right-winger gets his own category name?
@ElbridgeColby
Never weaken your adversaries for fear that it will motivate them to come back stronger at some unspecified future point? This logic stretches credulity.
Jewish Studies departments have long been little more than mediums for laundering hatred of Israel.
Perhaps more disappointing is that this writing was awarded. Aspiring Judith Butler here.
Stanford's "Best Honors Thesis in Jewish Studies" goes to "a ritual performance grieving the Israeli occupation and destruction of Gaza, heightened since October 2023."
@mattyryze
@BillAckman
@Harvard
I won’t speculate on the motives. My only intent was to indicate that the students’ development of an org, even if only developed yesterday and even if only to establish standing, is not all that uncommon. In many cases, courts would prefer it over disposing of many cases.
@RadioFreeTom
@ichbinilya
@ignighted
It is assessed that this assessment is so poor that no assessor will attach his or her name to said assessment we assess with a high probability to be assessed as true.
Ah, my bad. Didn’t realize Hamas had come to campus in peace.
I remember, like five min ago, people in McFaul’s camp thinking shouting antisemitic threats in Charlottesville was not so peaceful. I’m a proponent of free speech. Not uni policy violations:
I don't agree with some of the slogans I see on posters at the encampment of
@Stanford
students on our campus. But as long as these students stay peaceful & don't threaten anyone, I'm fine with them living in tents for the rest of the year. (As a Montana kid, I liked camping
I'm so dismayed by Liz Magill's resignation and I so hope that Claudine Gay
@Harvard
will not follow. I fear too few of us have said what many of us think: She did nothing wrong, & the real failure of leadership would be surrendering to a campaign so hostile to our values. /1
@karol
If that’s an Army Intel officer who’s still in - either active or reserve - she should have charges pressed under UCMJ for engaging in partisan activity in uniform. (And for desecrating the uniform with a jacket thrown over civilian clothes.) I can only hope it’s stolen valor
@RachelJessWolff
@georgetownsfs
Wow. How many administrators does SFS have? Not one did an ounce of due diligence. Or worse, they *did* know who he was and thought this was a guy they’d like to have at a sponsored event.
We are governed by seriously unserious people. I remember being five years old, and before buying a baseball card, thinking about what I could afford with my $5 allowance. (I know, privileged with my fancy chore allowance.)
Realists never used to say the “masses” knew what was better for their security and prosperity than the leader, who is assumed to a rational, security-maximizing actor. This is because, as Hamilton wrote in 1788, citizens often misconceive their interests.
The purpose of a republic is to serve the citizenry's interests.
So American foreign policy should be run more like a business - with a fiduciary mindset - and less like a crusading secular religion.
@kearney_melissa
I mean, obviously.
Has lots of thoughts about how her lived experience “disproves” central tendencies reported in a book. A book she hasn’t read.
@tylersyck
I guess, but that term doesn’t mean what they think it means. Irving Kristol, founder of US “neoconservatism” (a term thrust upon him though he didn’t object), advised US withdrawal from NATO. Other famous neocon, Jeane Kirkpatrick, made no bones abt disagreements w GW Bush FP.
There's some great nuance here in this piece from
@LukeJSchumacher
. He's spot on about owning your opinions. Don't hide behind subtweets. I've also wondered if
@Martin_Dempsey
's account is actually a bot. Has it ever responded to anyone?
It was a pleasure talking with
@makosloff
about my article on FDR and constitutional statesmanship.
Please have a listen! (I can’t much stand hearing my own voice, so you’ll have to let me know how it went.)
Listen to the latest episode of “Horns of a Dilemma,” as
@makosloff
sits down with
@LukeJSchumacher
to talk about “The Difficult Balance of Constitutional Statesmanship During Times of War.”
🎙️:
@stephenwertheim
When stranded in the middle of a lake, observing that swimming is an inefficient mode of transportation is not particularly enlightening or meaningful.
@PatPorter76
Right. Capitalism is creative destruction. There is great ambivalence in conservative thought about that fact, whether it should be promoted and glorified or constrained and regretted. Like realism, I’ve thrown up my hands on trying to defining the “hard core” of conservatism
Unmatched clarity.
Jews fearing for their lives. In Germany. 80 years after the Holocaust.
For what? In the name of “liberation,” “decolonization,” and “justice”? Make it make sense.
History is not a linear march toward toward the better. We really do have to work for it
It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on
#Israel
. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert
#Habeck
in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
@GabrielGlickman
And then only got worse. Believe it or not, there are a bunch of proximal mountains that are prominent even through regular cloud cover. But not through wildfire ash.
Pricey sorority consultants help women navigate the pitfalls of rush season. “My boyfriend went to Stanford, and he said this is more complicated than getting a Stanford MBA.”
@WCWohlforth
@eugene_finkel
You know, a reader of Tragedy might come away thinking that a great power, in the absence of impediments, expands and takes. One might get the idea that if the US was a good offensive realist it might keep pushing east.
@OrinKerr
But is not economic security a bulwark against other forms of corruption? This is the theory on which Singpore pays its high court judges so well. And why no one could ever accuse Judge Judy of venality ;)
@WCWohlforth
@KSchultz3580
@PatPorter76
Perhaps they've ceded too much on the US case. Look out for Dale Copeland's forthcoming _The Commerce of Power Politics: Am FP from Founding to the Rise of China_ for one SR's attempt to rescue realism from the US "anomaly." You'll have to judge if he's smuggling in dom-lvl vars.
Glad to see
@SohrabAhmari
, who not long ago accused those supporting Kiev of “feeding the dream of a hopeless Ukrainian resistance,” is reminded that being the arsenal of democracy is a pretty good thing.
Probably grossest non sequiter you’ll see today. What the actual hell does a West Bank settlement have to do with a pogrom in LA? The Left really does think an Israeli event can justify attacks on Jews in America — but don’t you dare call it antisemitic!
A reminder that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory violate the Fourth Geneva Convention. The UN Security Council has called the settlements "a flagrant violation under international law" that constitute a threat to peace in the region.