Reuters recently featured research done by Professor Ryan Owens and his colleagues surrounding the topic of judges and aging. Their work examined how the age of judges can influence their opinion writing and judicial abilities. Read the full story here.
The Wall Street Journal recently published an op ed by Co-Director Ryan Owens on the consequences of cameras at the US Supreme Court.
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Read Richard Avramenko’s review of Zachary Goldsmith’s, Fanaticism: A Political Philosophical History.
Now available, Richard Avramenko and Lee Trepanier’s, Canadian Conservative Political Thought.
Richard Avramenko and Benjamin Rolsma, “Whither the Contented? Tocqueville and the Fate of the Unambitious in Democratic Times.” Read more here.
The Wall Street Journal published an op ed from our Interim Director, Ryan Owens. In response to a bipartisan bill on cameras at the High Court, our data counsel caution. Read more here
Interim Director Ryan Owens published an Op-Ed on the UW System Free Speech Survey Results. Read the story here.
Now available: Political Science Reviewer, Vol 46(2)
Richard Avramenko and Alicia Rolsma, “On the Uses and Abuses of Flood for Life: St. Augustine’s Theo-politics of Disaster”in Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory From Antiquity to the Age of Covid (Routledge, 2022).