After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, political science subfields had different reactions to the worst-case scenarios. This Twitter thread summarizes some of them. (Jacob Levy/Jacob T.

[Vienna, June 2022] During the past 10,000 years – the Holocene – human societies became larger and ever more complex. An international team of scientists led by Peter Turchin from the Complexity ...

Conspiracy theories are everywhere — and in the age of social media, they’re hard to escape. But why do they flourish so easily, even when we have so much information at our fingertips? According to ...

Joseph Reisert, a government professor at Colby College, has found that science fiction novels such as Brave New World add a lot of value to his “Introduction to Political Theory” class. “I wish I ...

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