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Connor Ewing

@ConnorMEwing

Visiting Fellow, Princeton | Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development

Toronto Katılım Aralık 2011
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Connor Ewing
Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing·
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: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing·
@BK_McCallum @aintezbeinpeezy Given your characterizations of Reconstruction, I'm not sure a productive conversation is possible. Happy to take your reading suggestions, but I'd suggest (of course) Foner, Downs' After Appomattox, Egerton's The Wars of Reconstruction, & Blair's With Malice toward Some.
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Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing·
In 1866, Congress shrank the Supreme Court from 10 justices to 7. That move not only prevented Andrew Johnson from appointing justices that opposed Reconstruction but also nullified a pending nomination. Was that "a naked threat to the rule of law and our Constitutional order"?
Gregg Nunziata@greggnunziata

This is a naked threat to the rule of law and our Constitutional order. Shameful. Some Democrats do not really oppose Trump's demagoguery and assault on the rule of law; they just don't like that it's right-coded. This moment calls for better leadership.

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Connor Ewing
Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing·
Lots of Lost Cause/Dunning School/bayonet rule mishegas sloshing around the comments 🤦‍♂️
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Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing·
The level of reading comprehension on this website does not inspire confidence 🤦‍♂️
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Corey Bennett (BadgerNews)
Corey Bennett (BadgerNews)@BadgerNewsNet·
My quick thoughts on the AD Search Committee: 🦡This kicks the shit out of the "Sedberry and the interim chancellor figure it out". 🦡Seven of nine members are UW alums spanning 1965 to present. Wisconsin went and found alums who reached the top of their fields and asked them to come home for this. This says something about the university's standing with the people it produced. Love seeing it 🦡Shannon (KSL Capital Partners) is an essentail addition to the committee. Next AD will face private-capital and capital-structure questions no Wisconsin AD has dealt with before. He's the only person on this committee qualified to pressure-test that Bottom line: Wisconsin took an extra few weeks to put together a very formidable group to make this hire. This is a genuine investment that signals respect for the for the magnitude of the decision. I give tremendous credit to @uwchancellor for overseeing this direction. #OnWisconsin
Jesse Temple@jessetemple

Wisconsin announces it has "formally launched a search for its next director of athletics" and that the university expects the AD to begin this summer. Here is information on the nine-member search committee:

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Paul R. DeHart
Paul R. DeHart@PaulRDeHart·
I'm not so much subtweeting (should that be hyphenated?) as referring to a body of thought that makes Madison into a Hobbesian (usually, the argument goes, via Locke or Pufendorf or, and I find this a bit wild, Vattel). The body of thought includes Frank Coleman and Walter Berns. McDowell has a version of this argument. And you find it in Wilson Carey McWilliams and some others. I think the folks making the argument have not really read Hobbes--especially his account of sovereignty--carefully and / or have seriously misconstrued Madison in a way that might have been prevented had they immersed themselves in his papers (at some point in graduate school, I had 15-20 volumes of his papers checked out at any given time). Hobbes's philosophy--as Hobbes understands it--entails sovereign power that is absolute (by which he means unlimited) and indivisible. Madison espouses divided sovereignty in two senses Hobbes explicitly rejects and in a third sense that he would have.
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Paul R. DeHart
Paul R. DeHart@PaulRDeHart·
Imagine misunderstanding James Madison and Thomas Hobbes so badly that you thought Madison was a Hobbesian. No one who has read Madison’s papers extensively or Dan Howe’s magisterial article on The Federalist or Hobbes’s Leviathan, De cive, De homine, Elements could really think Madisonian Constitutionalism and Hobbes’s political theory (the center of which is his account of sovereignty) are remotely the same thing. Madison was the advocate of regime that on multiple counts, by design, instantiates principles Hobbes considers to be diseases that tend to the dissolution of the commonwealth.
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Chagai Weiss
Chagai Weiss@chagai_weiss·
🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop is back for its 12th edition! Join us on Nov. 13–14, 2026, at @UofT! We welcome paper/poster proposals on any topic in political behaviour, broadly defined! 📅 Submission Deadline: July 11. Apply here: utorontops.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_40…
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Connor Ewing
Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing·
🥳🎉 Unironically thrilled to announce 🎉🥳 This means journals can't reject it now…right?
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Jordanreviewsittt
Jordanreviewsittt@jordanreviewsit·
He’s going to the post office. Add 10 people in line who have never mailed anything in their entire life
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Aurora Medved
Aurora Medved@amedved1995·
@ConnorMEwing this is (for the most part) an actual modest proposal, not an "A Modest Proposal" proposal
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