So excited (and grateful!) to be part of this. I look forward to sharing more about the work: exploring how populist reformers—antimonopoly farmers, labor unions, progressive intellectuals, socialists, and others—used state constitutions to challenge oligarchy during the Gilded Age & Progressive Era

This is a great, and well-reported, story about what happens when the world’s wealthiest man decides that he wants his own government.

“But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent. Autocrats are allergic to sources of dissent, so they almost invariably seek to silence, weaken, or control them.

The Trump administration is no different.”

In other life updates: I’m incredibly excited to be joining the law faculty at UCLA this summer as an asst prof. I’ll be teaching state constitutional law, contracts, and a local govt seminar ("Place, Race, & Power"). Feeling deeply grateful for all who have supported me along the winding path here!