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Jacob S. Lewis

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Associate Prof. at Washington State University. Research focuses on African politics, political psychology, conflict processes, and antisemitism.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Feb 1

🚨New research🚨

Are antisemitism and conspiracy beliefs causally linked? In my new exploratory study, I find that the political right and left both link them, but inversely to one another.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very interesting and poignant piece - thank you for sharing!
The author does a good job of detailing how we got here, though I (perhaps naïvely) disagree with his prognosis for liberal zionism.

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · 2d

Is that the main challenge we've had as a field? I'm not so sure. I wonder if perhaps the move toward massive cross-country analysis using big data has perhaps blunted our ability to actually study politics and society.

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · 5d

An opportunity for a nation-wide Viddui, perhaps. Unlikely, but it would be nice.

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · 5d

Let us hope this is the first step toward something meaningful.

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Live Updates: Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Hostages in Gaza

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 7d

To all observing Yom Kippur, I wish you an easy fast and a meaningful holiday during these tough times. G’mar Chatimah Tovah.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · 7d

Awesome work by two awesome Africanists!

Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

Conventional wisdom says that, once in power, opposition parties will return backsliding countries to the democratic path. In reality, not only is this not true, but it is not uncommon for the opposition to adopt the autocratic habits of the regime they replaced.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · 16d

Best of all time. Plus, who didn't have a huge crush on either Mulder or Scully?

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25d

If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, stop acting like one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Alright, well I'm immediately stealing this! Thanks, Andrew!

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hey, that IS fun!

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Sep 3

The never ending march of self-appointed useful iditos who obviously know better continues…

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 1

Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel.

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U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say

The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives or conducting business.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Such an absolutely incredible read. I've thought about having my students read it in my African politics course.

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Finished "The Lumumba Plot" recently. Nice read, learned a ton about the Congo Crisis.

Man though, it was so strange reading about UN peacekeepers actually *fighting* and defeating an opponent in a war, as they did in the case of secessionist Katanga.

Just such a far cry from their passivity today

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 25

stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...

it's not a distraction

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've decided to start my own crypto coin, but instead of enriching myself, it just goes to funding grad student lines.

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Have you spent much time actually reading political science articles and books? Or is this just a commentary on the slice of political scientists that use social media?

If the former - what do you find puzzling? If the latter - what is the point of the post? Just trolling?

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 13

Are you a #polisky grad student or early career scholar coming to APSA? We have a few spaces left for poster presentations at the pre-conference!

Propose your abstract here: forms.office.com/r/vPM6h7CHCg

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 13

APSA-bound #polisky: register for the Pol. Psych Pre-Conf by Friday (8/15)!

Featuring @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, @valentimvicente.bsky.social , @mjcohen.bsky.social, @agtheodoridis.bsky.social, S. Feldman, M. Pickup, L. Stephenson, T. Ollerenshaw, & O. Christley!

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2025 Political Psychology Pre-Conference - Vancouver, Canada

Join us at Simon Fraser in Vancouver for the 2025 Political Psychology Pre-Conference on the Comparative Psychology of Authoritarianism.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm a fan of @theatlantic.com, but the faux naïveté of this article is baffling. Why entertain the illusion that deploying the military to DC/LA/etc. has anything to do with safety? The article actually suggests practical changes, as if the admin. simply got the policy wrong. Embarrassing.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 13

Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” https://theatln.tc/6RCOGO23

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 10

We're in the doom loop, and I"m scared that a lot of the Democratic gerentocracy is going to miss it because they haven't had to go on the job market since 1875.

Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 10

Candidates for tech jobs now working to highlight their "human skills," which for so long were derided as "soft skills," as if being able to relate to other humans is somehow unimportant.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 10

Tech companies want to avoid hiring people who use AI to apply for jobs, so they use ... AI to screen them out. The incredible failure of the single-minded push for STEM and the treatment of university as simply professional vocational schools is producing exactly what was predicted.

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 10

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social has been really good about talking about this youth bulge crisis and how it is going to reshape our politics. Dems need to address this as a serious policy position.

Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · Aug 10

It seems quite obvious to me that the slow, then sudden closing of the grindset-to-six-figures pipeline explains quite a bit of whatever crisis of whatever is afflicting the Culture right now.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Aug 5

Calling @ceaubin.bsky.social

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Jacob S. Lewis @profjslewis.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hey @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social - Great episode of The Next Level.

Take a look at Tobias Cremer's "The Godless Crusade" about religion, populism, and right-wing identity politics. It directly addresses your convo on Chr. Nationalism.

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The Godless Crusade

Cambridge Core - Sociology of Religion - The Godless Crusade

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