Daniel Drezner

@dandrezner.bsky.social

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Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.

Matt Tarses, who — fun fact — was a college classmate of mine back in the day at the best leafy liberal arts college in the world.
It isn’t yet clear how long the strikes will need to last. “The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” Trump posted on social media on Saturday.
Many people who read my farewell column in the Times are wondering what I’m doing next. I’m joining The Atlantic and Yale full time. We’re creating an amazing partnership that will allow us to create the podcast I’ve always dreamed of, and a lot more besides! I feel like a kid again.
A White House official, granted anonymity to share details of the trip, said that Trump will discuss “how this administration has and continues to deliver economic prosperity for the American people, despite whatever contrived scandals the mainstream media and Democrats would rather focus on instead” during the Iowa visit. “Inflation has cooled, economic growth is accelerating, and real wages are up for American workers,” the official said. “President Trump has always been most in his element when he’s interacting with everyday Americans.”
In this way, Trump’s world view is closer to Hobbes’s understanding of anarchy than that of the realists. Although most realists think of Hobbes as part of their intellectual tradition, his vision of order extended deeper into the domestic realm than most realists care to go. He famously described anarchy as a war of “all against all,” in which life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Less well known is his belief that for a commonwealth to survive in such a brutal world, a sovereign has to be able to exercise nearly unconstrained power at home. Hobbes disdained any separation of powers or any domestic agglomeration of power outside the sovereign himself.
he has at times eschewed the advice of his doctors and scoffed at the medical community’s widely accepted health recommendations
Caption reads, “Jalen Brunson drills triple in Knicks’ trilling victory.”
Text of Batya Ungar-Sargon’s tweet: “If I had to summarize the first year of President Trump's second term in one word, it would be: dignity. From his foreign policy to his domestic policy to his immigration policy, the goal has been restoring the dignity of the forgotten working-class men & women of this country.”