Posts by tim frye
2+ years in the making, and our paper “Fear, soft propaganda, and the demand for government intervention” is finally out in the European Economic Review 🎉
Thanks to @nikitaz.bsky.social, @timfrye.bsky.social, Koen Schoors and Katya Borisova for being amazing coauthors
🔻Old thread + new link below
#polisky this is a five alarm fire 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Thursday, April 23, 9:50 to 11:20 CDT Authors Meet Critics: Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections by Timothy Frye, Ora John Reuter, and David Szakonyi Cesi Cruz, Participant at #MPSA2026 from Center for Political Studies
Friday, April 24, 11:40 to 1:10 CDT Authors Meet Critics for Strategic Responsiveness: How Congress Confronts Presidential Power by Scott Ainsworth, Brian Harward, and Kenneth Moffett Kenny Lowande, Participant
What to read before #MPSA2026? CPS's @lowande.bsky.social and Cesi Cruz will participate in authors-meet-critics sessions on "How Congress Confronts Presidential Power" and "How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections." @timfrye.bsky.social, @szakonyi.bsky.social, @uofmpress.bsky.social
i will be speaking Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 at the Jordan Center. You can watch on zoom or in person by registering below. jordanrussiacenter.org/events/workp...
i will be speaking Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 at the Jordan Center. You can watch on zoom or in person by registering below. jordanrussiacenter.org/events/workp...
Soon the city will descend into anarchy.
Now I know that the blizzard is an emergency. Door dash has suspended services.
maybe these two stories could have been one story. NYT with a not so subtle choice of article placement.
Looking forward to taking part in this event at noon today at Harriman to launch the new issue of our magazine. Virtual access still available. I also include a link below to my article. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr...
harriman.columbia.edu/reflections-...
Looking forward to taking part in this event on February 17 at noon both online and in person. It launches our articles in the newest Harriman Institute magazine. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr...
Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.
Looking forward to taking part in this event on Thursday at noon. www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream...
Amount of time network evening newscasts devoted to reporting on today’s protests and general strike in MN (not including coverage ICE actions or their attempts to spin)
ABC: 45 seconds
NBC: 20 seconds
CBS: 15 seconds
PBS: 2 minutes, 20 seconds
This seems important
Lovely to see the outpouring of love for Kimuli, whose presence is so very missed. I’m adding here the “in memoriam” colleagues wrote for the department (a bit more personal than the one from the university!)
polisci.columbia.edu/content/memo...
Thanks for posting. Looks interesting and will read with interest. Glad to see academic posts like this on Bluesky.
This pretty damning. Hard to see how faculty will take his leadership seriously.
Did I miss something or did today's WSJ not even mention the 5th anniversary of the January 6h insurrection?
www.wsj.com
Maybe those Mercator Maps were not such a good idea after all.
Five years since the January 6th insurrection and a reminder that in the moment many Republicans and Trump voters were appalled, but many also were not.
If kidnapping a country’s leader doesn’t count as an act of war, then what does?
I've been down on the WP for a while now and this Editorial Board piece is exactly why. The argument is shallower than a kiddie pool. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Not Somali.
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law