Michael D. Kennedy

@anneapplebaum @_EmmaGH @JaneMayerNYer @EvelynNFarkas @McFaul @greta @RichardHaass @juliaioffe @jimrutenberg @JeffreyGoldberg @brianklaas @RepCohen @HallieJackson @AriMelber @OxanaShevel @IgnatiusPost @joannahosa @umichCREES @CapehartJ @Joyannreid @michelleinbklyn @AnnaLysyanskaya @tomfriedman @RadioFreeTom @Morning_Joe @dbyman @MAliKadivar @RepJayapal @SenMikeLee @NPR @ElissaSlotkin @mattgaetz @RepRooney @RepThomasMassie @RiotMaterial @SecPompeo @RepGregoryMeeks @BrownUniversity @Timothy_Edgar @mklare1 @reidpauly @SangerNYT @SpeakerMcCarthy @ZelenskyyUa @julianbarnes @sikorskiradek @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler @IEA @fbirol Although the entire world is hit by economic #WarConsequences with higher oil prices, some regions suffer more than others. Asia is hurt dramatically, which includes US allies (if that term still means anything for Trump) nytimes.com/interactive/20… #EnergySecurity

@anneapplebaum @_EmmaGH @JaneMayerNYer @EvelynNFarkas @McFaul @greta @RichardHaass @juliaioffe @jimrutenberg @JeffreyGoldberg @brianklaas @RepCohen @HallieJackson @AriMelber @OxanaShevel @IgnatiusPost @joannahosa @umichCREES @CapehartJ @Joyannreid @michelleinbklyn @AnnaLysyanskaya @tomfriedman @RadioFreeTom @Morning_Joe @dbyman @MAliKadivar @RepJayapal @SenMikeLee @NPR @ElissaSlotkin @mattgaetz @RepRooney @RepThomasMassie @RiotMaterial @SecPompeo @RepGregoryMeeks @BrownUniversity @Timothy_Edgar @mklare1 @reidpauly @SangerNYT @SpeakerMcCarthy @ZelenskyyUa @julianbarnes @sikorskiradek @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler As I did in #GlobalizingKnowledge, it’s quite useful to see how @IEA officials like @FBirol anticipate the #EnergySecurity consequences of the #TrumpBibi war on Iran nytimes.com/2026/03/23/wor… There will be lasting effects on oil/gas supplies & spikes in prices.

@anneapplebaum @_EmmaGH @JaneMayerNYer @ricklyman @EvelynNFarkas @McFaul @greta @RichardHaass @juliaioffe @jimrutenberg @JeffreyGoldberg @brianklaas @RepCohen @HallieJackson @AriMelber @OxanaShevel @IgnatiusPost @joannahosa @umichCREES @CapehartJ @JoyAnnReid @michelleinbklyn @AnnaLysyanskaya @tomfriedman @RadioFreeTom @Morning_Joe @dbyman @MAliKadivar @RepJayapal @SenMikeLee @NPR @ElissaSlotkin @mattgaetz @RepRooney @RepThomasMassie @RiotMaterial @SecPompeo @RepGregoryMeeks @WatsonInstitute @BrownUniversity @Timothy_Edgar @mklare1 @reidpauly @SangerNYT @SpeakerMcCarthy @ZelenskyyUa @julianbarnes @sikorskiradek @UN @LawDavF The #EscalationDebate nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/… abides, but acquires a new weighting given use by Ukraine of US supplied #WarTechnologies to attack Russia. #WarTrajectory

Xi "sees climate as an area for staking China’s global leadership” offers @han_cecilia nytimes.com/interactive/20… while allied with Putin whose empire rests on fossil fuel foundations (see Ch 6 of www-sup.stanford.edu/books/title/?i…). #StrongMen #EnergySecurity #ClimateChange 3/

@anneapplebaum @_EmmaGH @JaneMayerNYer @EvelynNFarkas @McFaul @greta @RichardHaass @juliaioffe @jimrutenberg @JeffreyGoldberg @brianklaas @RepCohen @HallieJackson @AriMelber @OxanaShevel @IgnatiusPost @joannahosa @umichCREES @CapehartJ @Joyannreid @michelleinbklyn @AnnaLysyanskaya @tomfriedman @RadioFreeTom @Morning_Joe @dbyman @MAliKadivar @RepJayapal @SenMikeLee @NPR @ElissaSlotkin @mattgaetz @RepRooney @RepThomasMassie @RiotMaterial @SecPompeo @RepGregoryMeeks @BrownUniversity @Timothy_Edgar @mklare1 @reidpauly @SangerNYT @SpeakerMcCarthy @ZelenskyyUa @julianbarnes @sikorskiradek @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler @cafreeland “More than 2K ppl have been killed since the US-Israeli attack on Iran that ignited the conflict more than 3 weeks ago, most of them in Iran & Lebanon, where Israel has fought a second front with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group” nytimes.com/live/2026/03/2… #WarConsequences

@anneapplebaum @_EmmaGH @JaneMayerNYer @EvelynNFarkas @McFaul @greta @RichardHaass @juliaioffe @jimrutenberg @JeffreyGoldberg @brianklaas @RepCohen @HallieJackson @AriMelber @OxanaShevel @IgnatiusPost @joannahosa @umichCREES @CapehartJ @Joyannreid @michelleinbklyn @AnnaLysyanskaya @tomfriedman @RadioFreeTom @Morning_Joe @dbyman @MAliKadivar @RepJayapal @SenMikeLee @NPR @ElissaSlotkin @mattgaetz @RepRooney @RepThomasMassie @RiotMaterial @SecPompeo @RepGregoryMeeks @BrownUniversity @Timothy_Edgar @mklare1 @reidpauly @SangerNYT @SpeakerMcCarthy @ZelenskyyUa @julianbarnes @sikorskiradek @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler @cafreeland India suffers profoundly with this war nytimes.com/2026/03/22/bus… not only for the changing price of energy but also for the fates of its diaspora and business ties to the Gulf. #WarConsequences

@Dr_HariniA @Claudiashein @michelleinbklyn @ZelenskyyUa @ChingteLai @georgesoros @kajakallas @LulaOficial @imamoglu_int @Statsmin @SenJohnKennedy @ChrisCoons @lisamurkowski @SenThomTillis @takaichi_sanae @Pontifex @ClaudeMalhuret @MarkJCarney @springsteen @SpeakerPelosi @jacindaardern @catherinegalway @delcyrodriguezv @CyrilRamaphosa @Keir_Starmer @GiorgiaMeloni @sanchezcastejon I should have acknowledged how @MichealMartinTD managed his own Trump encounter irishtimes.com/politics/2026/… for many celebrate his own Irishness in negotiating with this representative of #StrongMen

@Dr_HariniA @Claudiashein @michelleinbklyn @ZelenskyyUa @ChingteLai @georgesoros @kajakallas @LulaOficial @imamoglu_int @Statsmin @SenJohnKennedy @ChrisCoons @lisamurkowski @SenThomTillis @takaichi_sanae @Pontifex @ClaudeMalhuret @MarkJCarney @springsteen @SpeakerPelosi @jacindaardern @catherinegalway @delcyrodriguezv @CyrilRamaphosa @Keir_Starmer @GiorgiaMeloni @sanchezcastejon That next crisis could well be in the articulation of #ChinaTaiwanJapan. In the event of growing tensions, or worse, @takaichi_sanae & Japan deserve US support. If this account nytimes.com/2026/03/20/wor… rings true, she may have secured the tie that keeps a peace. 11/11

Over the coming year, I prepare a #KnowledgeCulturalSociology #KCSo paper on (emergent) autocracies in practice focusing on the notion of "strongmen". My 2015 point of reference was #Brexit, Trump & Putin progressivepost.eu/eu-referendum-… and other expressions of #UbermenschEscapism.

@alisonannyoung @zeynep @tribelaw @LeahLitman @Edsall @anaqforcongress How #SociologyMatters as @Zeynep exemplifies method nytimes.com/2023/09/03/opi… a) identify myth; b) find other cases; c) show patterns; d) reveal how ignorance produces negative unintended consequences; e) refocus on how institutions matter; f) redesign them to address issues. Thx!

@Maureen @mcottle @AJFichera Trump e) "makes unverifiable claims about what the world would have been like had he secured a second term." f) "describes the US as a nation in ruins." nytimes.com/interactive/20… W these 6 principles, @AJFichera contributes meaningfully to a #TrumpSociology of #TrumpLies. END

@BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @pubstory @tompharvard @JMLudes @gwaynemiller @jseelybrown @Morning_Joe @costareports @khaila__ @KBAndersen @dlittle30 @kimberlykhoang @TomPerez @WatsonInstitute @robert_a_blair @craigjcalhoun @nyu_ipk @ikaribjanian @nkwarikoo @chinyereagbai @ASR_Journal @bartbonikowski @UMich @toddgitlin @DYStateofMind @emmaschow @alex_s_cramer @craigmelvin @billpeduto @peterbakernyt @GlennKesslerWP @CharlesMBlow @neal_katyal @gtconway3d @KamalaHarris @GovernorShapiro @GavinNewsom @HillaryClinton @BillClinton @PattyMurray @RepAnnieKuster @Ilhan @RepJamesClyburn @JasmineForUS @SenatorBaldwin @mbonikowska @Tim_Walz Then @Edsall invokes #StrongMen historian @ruthbenghiat to articulate that #TrumpOrban method in illiberalism's state capture. Those parallels are clear, something both the advocates, & critics, of the #MAGAMythos would identify as right in description, but divergent in value 8/

@Peter_Wehner @RepRaskin “Trump created the sort of social media-ready content that his administration has thrived on to push through one unflattering news cycle into the next.” nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/… #SOTU26 Focusing on enemies was a method of communist rule too. #trumpsociology

@Dr_HariniA @Claudiashein @michelleinbklyn @ZelenskyyUa @ChingteLai @georgesoros @kajakallas @LulaOficial @imamoglu_int @Statsmin @SenJohnKennedy @ChrisCoons @lisamurkowski @SenThomTillis This is a take on the #TrumpGreenland exercise of #TrumPower, rooted in real estate morphed into threatening allies. It’s all about extraordinary threats, chaos making, retreats, then declaring victory. nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/… But without knowing goals, one can’t assess success.

@DYStateofMind @RepCohen @RepHankJohnson @RepTedDeutch @RepJeffries @davidcicilline @tedlieu @RepRaskin @RepJayapal @RepGregStanton @RepDean @RepDMP @neal_katyal @RepEscobar @RepAdamSchiff @jahimes @RepTerriSewell @RepSpeier @RepMikeQuigley @ericswalwell @JoaquinCastrotx @HurdOnTheHill @RepDennyHeck @PeterWelch @RepValDemings @CongressmanRaja @michaelbd @RepAndreCarson @RepKClark @RepPeterDeFazio @LisaBRochester @RepLoriTrahan @PramilaJayapal @RepMGS @vgescobar @AlexWitt @BarryBerke @NormEisen @NFUDC @AymanM @DLeonhardt @marcorubio @BenSasse @SenJoniErnst @HawleyMO @SenatorCollins @SenCoryGardner @MatthewSitman @OTMBrooke W Barr's critique, @EricHolder reminds that power, despite Trump's example, rests on cultural authority & not just bureaucratic office washingtonpost.com/opinions/eric-… #TrumPower: force obeisance among associates, wringing out integrity from reputations, so prostration is all that's left.

@FrankBruni @SpeakerPelosi @NewYorkStateAG @FultonCountyDA @ejeancarroll @kaplanrobbie @StormyDaniels @Liz_Cheney @KamalaHarris @michelleinbklyn “I’ve had a lot of conversations w this man (Trump), & at the end of nearly all of them, I think, ‘Either you are stupid, or you think that the rest of us are’” declares @SpeakerPelosi sfchronicle.com/politics/artic… in her new book. #StrongMenFearStrongWomen as their antipodes!