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...
Jan 3, 2026 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
As most people know, recent polling indicates that things are indeed are looking up for Democrats. But in the words of the prognosticators at Cook Political Report (CPR, behind paywall), Democrats should not to expect the kind of massive “blue wave” election in 2026...
Jul 20, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
To my mind, some members of the climate coalition spend too much time and energy fighting with one another about which carbon-reducing technologies to support or oppose. Particularly in these politically problematic times, we ought to be humbly agnostic about those...
