Apr 25, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / #5] ——- As of Monday I will have taught my last class as a tenured professor, and I will be considered “retired” as of May 1. I will continue to do some teaching at UT-Austin, but it feels...
Apr 18, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4] ——- This is my penultimate “being curious-not-judgmental is good (energy) politics” post, and this one addresses how and why the climate coalition sometimes focuses on the wrong things. For...
Apr 10, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3] Many people are familiar with this Will Rogers quote: “I don’t belong to any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Democrats have always understood that they are a big tent ideologically; and given...
Apr 2, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2] ——- This blog, like my book, has been aimed at members of “the climate coalition” — i.e., the set of people who are open to the idea that the present and future costs of climate change are...
Mar 24, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1] ——- When I was a political science grad student studying regulatory agencies, people in my field used to say that bureaucratic politics scholarship was like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Each person...
Mar 15, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Goodbye cruel public opinion … When David Brooks announced earlier this year that he would stop writing his column for the New York Times, he explained things this way: When I came to The Times, I set out to promote a moderate conservative political philosophy...
