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 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 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...
Feb 28, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Decades ago, when I was a grad student living in North Carolina, the televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker had a very popular daily TV show called The PTL Club,* that combined preaching, entertainment and fundraising. The fundraising part eventually landed Jim...
