Tom Burke

.@Cambridgeren and Jeb Barnes reflect on America’s deep roots in adversarial legalism. To move past policymaking by lawsuit, abundance, liberals must build new forms of trusted authority.

My new article with Jeb Barnes probably should have been titled "Liberals, The Courts Are Not Your Friends," but instead we called it "The Post-Brown Era in Judicial Policymaking," published at The Forum: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

1. Geopolitical competition with China makes protectionism necessary 2. Protectionism is economically costly and bad. 1 + 2 = we need freer trade with friendly countries for a stronger economy and a stronger alliance system. slowboring.com/p/the-economic…

I guess this take is controversial among law professors, but for political scientists who study the legal system it is our conventional starting point. Courts do politics, but differently from other institutions.

I think we can all agree one of these men looks too old and tired to be president

Persuasive analysis by Ilya Somin, a law professor who is no flaming liberal. The inconvenient truth is that the case against Trump on Section 3 grounds is powerful, even if the political implications of the Colorado decision are troubling. reason.com/volokh/2023/12…

@JordanSchachtel Just false. Go to Google Scholar. She has several highly-cited articles in the top three journals for a political scientist studying American politics.

Claudine Gay, the President of Harvard, is 53 years old. A career academic, she has never published a book. She has a very minimal publishing footprint. A few articles over 30 yrs. All of it's racial politics. How is she qualified to run a lemonade stand let alone Harvard?

For higher ed, it is critical that this resignation at Penn (w/ perhaps more to come) not be construed as a mandate to shrink the space for free speech & academic freedom & to heighten the desire to cater to the sensitivities & political preferences of donors & politicians 2/

This does seem to have gotten less media attention than the polls when Biden was down.

@ElectProject Iowa City? Madison?

Q: Which Metropolitan Statistical Area has the highest average turnout rate (as a percentage of the citizen voting-age population) in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections?

Congratulations to our six endorsed candidates who won City Council elections last night! @realBurhanAzeem @Marc_C_McGovern @MayorSiddiqui @E_DeniseSimmons @VoteJivan @Vote_Ayesha Can't wait to make #CambMA more affordable, inclusive, and sustainable with you!

anyway now i’m thinking about the time one of our interns went rogue and sent out this perfect rejection letter

Cambridge voters please don't forget to vote for @realBurhanAzeem @MarcGov and the entire @ABetterCAF slate! Please rank all 9!

Great conversations with Cambridge voters this morning at Reservoir Church, Peabody School and Graham & Parks! We talked about creating safe streets, tenant protections, and ensuring Cambridge stays welcoming to immigrants by creating more housing we all can afford

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨 My new co-authored entitled, "Place, Race, and the Geographic Politics of White Grievance," with @ZoeNemerever, @KalMunis, and Fran Verville is now online at @PolBehavior! #Abs1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the former president has an inviolable right to a speedy and expeditious trial. He does not have a right, however, to a delay of a speedy trial to serve his personal and political interests.

It's flown under the radar that this Administration has created a new $30/month high-speed internet benefit program that is already serving roughly as many lower-income households as SNAP. For many of these households, it's the difference between having internet access and not.

WE NEED TO DEFUND THE POLICE (in low-crime affluent suburbs in order to make it easier to fill vacancies in higher-crime cities where the job is tougher but the social benefits of increased policing are larger)

@AsheeshKSi Are we really going to do the Twitter/X thing and ridicule each over a difficult situation where we know next to nothing about each other’s circumstances? Aside from social media “engagement,” what does that accomplish?

In this feverish summer it is a distinct pleasure to be enveloped in fog in the Berkeley Hills