May 4, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[This is the last post in a multi-part look at new books addressing what we know, and don’t know, about today’s politics. Part 1 is here; part 2 is here; and part 3 is here.] The Final Book: Focus on Public Debate The books we have reviewed to date have...
May 3, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[This is post number 3 in a series of posts reviewing new books addressing what we know, and don’t know, about today’s politics. The first two posts are here and here, respectively.] The Next Two Books: Understanding Angry Voters Yesterday’s books...
May 2, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
This is the second in a series of posts discussing new books that address what we know, and don’t know, about today’s energy and climate politics. You can find the explanatory introduction to this series here. Today we focus on rural resistance to the...
May 1, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
A Texas faculty friend who worries about our political descent keeps asking me “So, how does it end?” He shares my sense that today’s assault on our liberal democratic institutions is more than a swing of the pendulum to the political right. It...
Apr 20, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Climate of Contempt bemoans the way ideological and social media encourages and supercharges the human instinct to make attribution errors in politics. These errors involve a number of logical fallacies I describe in the book, and they often take the form of assigning...
