Connor Ewing
@cmewing.bsky.social
Visiting Fellow, Princeton | Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
To the gentleman currently working out in my gym without shoes—or socks—on: AYFKM?
January 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
To the gentleman currently working out in my gym without shoes—or socks—on: AYFKM?
I think it's time for Democrats to heighten the contradictions and push for Greenland statehood. Population 1/10 the size of Wyoming with the politics of Vermont + a strong indigenous sovereignty movement.
January 16, 2026 at 5:07 AM
I think it's time for Democrats to heighten the contradictions and push for Greenland statehood. Population 1/10 the size of Wyoming with the politics of Vermont + a strong indigenous sovereignty movement.
It's truly difficult to think of a more pathetic picture than this in American presidential history.
January 16, 2026 at 3:02 AM
It's truly difficult to think of a more pathetic picture than this in American presidential history.
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Surely there is a better way to let people volunteer to be a panel chair or discussant.
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Surely there is a better way to let people volunteer to be a panel chair or discussant.
Surely there is a better way to let people volunteer to be a panel chair or discussant.
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Surely there is a better way to let people volunteer to be a panel chair or discussant.
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Revising my academic bio. Feedback welcome.
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Revising my academic bio. Feedback welcome.
This simply formalizes ad hoc practice from Trump 1.0. Remember that it was the Bureau of Prisons' Disturbance Control Teams that were deployed in Lafayette Park to clear Black Lives Matter protesters for Trump's photo op.
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This simply formalizes ad hoc practice from Trump 1.0. Remember that it was the Bureau of Prisons' Disturbance Control Teams that were deployed in Lafayette Park to clear Black Lives Matter protesters for Trump's photo op.
👀 67% increase in the number of applications to the Toronto political science PhD program from last year, 92% increase from 2024 👀
January 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM
👀 67% increase in the number of applications to the Toronto political science PhD program from last year, 92% increase from 2024 👀
Revising my academic bio. Feedback welcome.
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Revising my academic bio. Feedback welcome.
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This is the kind of sign you put up when grandpa has forgotten his way around the house.
The White House has added a new sign above the Rose Garden reading “The Rose Garden.”
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
This is the kind of sign you put up when grandpa has forgotten his way around the house.
1. Undermine, destabilize, and withdraw from diplomatic relationships, networks, and organizations that took decades to build
2. Initiate regime change in multiple countries
3. ????
4. Profit
2. Initiate regime change in multiple countries
3. ????
4. Profit
January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
1. Undermine, destabilize, and withdraw from diplomatic relationships, networks, and organizations that took decades to build
2. Initiate regime change in multiple countries
3. ????
4. Profit
2. Initiate regime change in multiple countries
3. ????
4. Profit
This is the kind of sign you put up when grandpa has forgotten his way around the house.
The White House has added a new sign above the Rose Garden reading “The Rose Garden.”
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
This is the kind of sign you put up when grandpa has forgotten his way around the house.
Reposted by Connor Ewing
“Maybe *this* will convince the capitalists who got us into this mess to finally help get us out of it,” they said, refilling their Kool-Aid and clutching their healing crystals.
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
“Maybe *this* will convince the capitalists who got us into this mess to finally help get us out of it,” they said, refilling their Kool-Aid and clutching their healing crystals.
One of my favourite moments in the Constitutional Convention is when Ben Franklin proposed to open each day with prayer. Virtually everyone else disagreed, but they didn't want to disrespect Franklin by voting down his proposal. So they adjourned without even taking a vote.
January 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
One of my favourite moments in the Constitutional Convention is when Ben Franklin proposed to open each day with prayer. Virtually everyone else disagreed, but they didn't want to disrespect Franklin by voting down his proposal. So they adjourned without even taking a vote.
Ice: 1
ICE: 0
ICE: 0
ICE officers slipping on ice while trying to terrorize communities is the most accurate metaphor imaginable. No balance. No footing. No moral ground. Just cruelty, incompetence, and gravity doing its thing.
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Ice: 1
ICE: 0
ICE: 0
Hmmmm
Philosopher Jason Stanley (now at U of Toronto) urges Canadians not to send their kids to U.S. universities
Stanley, who decamped from Yale to Toronto after just a few months of Trump’s reign of lawlessness, advises Canadians not to send their children to U.S. universities. An excerpt: I have heard…
leiterreports.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Hmmmm
Harvard undergraduates can’t read but also our students are just like them!
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Harvard undergraduates can’t read but also our students are just like them!
“Maybe *this* will convince the capitalists who got us into this mess to finally help get us out of it,” they said, refilling their Kool-Aid and clutching their healing crystals.
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
“Maybe *this* will convince the capitalists who got us into this mess to finally help get us out of it,” they said, refilling their Kool-Aid and clutching their healing crystals.
And the managing partners at Paul Weiss, Skadden, Willkie, Milbank, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader. But instead, they all made deals with the administration.
Change a few words and this could have been the statement every university president had the opportunity to make last year.
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
www.federalreserve.gov
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
And the managing partners at Paul Weiss, Skadden, Willkie, Milbank, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader. But instead, they all made deals with the administration.
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Real talk tho: Into the 1970s Democrats saw central bank policy as (1) subject to congressional direction and (2) an important part of the civil rights project. Remember what the March on Washington was for? Jobs and freedom! Political economy was a central piece of the civil rights agenda.
I think people should know that the Federal Reserve is so independent that it isn’t subject to congressional appropriations, so maybe they shouldn’t let their opposition to the Orange Man dictate their position on democratic control of the central bank?
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Real talk tho: Into the 1970s Democrats saw central bank policy as (1) subject to congressional direction and (2) an important part of the civil rights project. Remember what the March on Washington was for? Jobs and freedom! Political economy was a central piece of the civil rights agenda.