Reluctant Midwesterner. Family. Puppy. Poetry. Get your Church out of my State. Bring them back.

Professor of Political Science, Columbia; editor, Good Authority; non-res Senior Fellow, Brookings. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace (preorder: press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/978…

Assoc Prof in the McCourt School and Dept of Government at Georgetown. A political scientist who studies public opinion, polling, and media effects. jonathanmladd.com Occasionally a Marilynne Robinson stan account. Apologies for typos.