Enik Rising

Dan Drezner makes some nice points in response to the Forbes article that lists academia as one of the least stressful occupations. Whil...

If you're interested in the ongoing saga over NSF funding for political science, please do not miss  Charles Lane's op/ed  in yester...

I'm one of the host co-chairs of the fifth annual Political Networks conference , being held next month in Boulder. Since this conferen...

Over at the Monkey Cage, John Sides comments on the House of Representatives' recent vote to defund the Political Science program at th...

I'm just back from a truly delightful meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago. Other than a creepy me-stalking m...

I'm not quite sure how to react to this op/ed by a University of Kansas student complaining about tenure and the quality of undergradua...

I'm just learning about a new style of presenting research being promoted by an organization called Ignite . You present in five minutes...

Ezra Klein was kind enough to call me and chat about his recent blog post on the 2012 election . During our conversation, we discussed his v...

Sociology grad student Sarah has an interesting post up at Facile Gestures that makes some important points about social networking media....

Via Henry Farrell and Archon Fung , here's a notable quote from the late great Lee Sigelman: If "speaking truth to power" an...

The University of Denver's Penrose library is undergoing a dramatic change starting this summer. The library promises all sorts of wonde...

Fellow political scientist Steve Greene gets an interesting evaluation from one of his students: [I]nstructor has a reasonably informed gr...

Andrew Sprung has a thoughtful and fascinating critique of Jonathan Bernstein's blog, a blog which, loyal readers will note, I cite fre...

Just how liberal are academics?  We actually don't have great recent data on that.  However, Everett Ladd, Seymour Lipset, and Martin Tr...

My good friend and longtime conference roommate Greg Koger is one of the signers (along with Steve Smith, Barbara Sinclair, Sarah Binder, E...

Via Erik Voeten and Brad DeLong .

Jonathan Bernstein's blog : "Next! (Why Romney and Palin May Be Overrated)" The New Republic blog : "Next! (Why Sarah Pa...

While you're over at The Forum reading Hans Noel's piece , you might want to check out the article there by me and the one by Joh...

I wanted to call your attention to two recent pieces by friends of mine.  These articles are concise, accessible, and interesting, and I...

In response to Ezra Klein's Sunday column , John Sides and I had some nice things to say about the idea of political science freeing u...