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Sep 16, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Ordinarily, celebrity endorsements don’t matter much in a presidential race. But Taylor Swift is no ordinary celebrity. When the pop icon announced on Instagram last week, in a post that has since accrued more than 11 million likes and incurred the wrath of Donald Trump, that she is supporting the Democratic ticket, it was the proverbial cherry on top of Kamala Harris’ recent debate victory.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
triblive.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Every year, I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?”I pose the question to figure out what political and cultural moments have shaped them. Over the years, their answers have served mainly to help me think about the mix of perspectives in my classroom. But lately my students’ responses have made me rethink modern American politics. Why? Because most of my students cannot remember a politics without Donald Trump at its center.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thetimes-tribune.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Every year, I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?”kAmx A@D6 E96 BF6DE:@?
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
standardspeaker.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Every year, I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?”kAmx A@D6 E96 BF6DE:@?
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
orlandosentinel.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Every year, I ask my political science students, "What is your earliest political memory?"I pose the question to figure out what political and cultural moments have shaped them. Over the years, their answers have served mainly to help me think about the mix of perspectives in my classroom. But lately my students' responses have made me rethink modern American politics. Why? Because most of my students cannot remember a politics without Donald Trump at its center.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
everand.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Commentary: Do you remember what politics were like without Donald Trump? My students don’t Every year, I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?” I pose the question to figure out what political and cultural moments have shaped them. Over the years, their answers have served mainly to help me think about the mix of perspectives in my classroom. But lately my students’ responses have made me rethink modern American politics. Why? Because most of my ...
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Every year, I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?”I pose the question to figure out what political and cultural moments have shaped them. Over the years, their answers have served mainly to help me think about the mix of perspectives in my classroom. But lately my students’ responses have made me rethink modern American politics. Why? Because most of my students cannot remember a politics without Donald Trump at its center.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt |Daniel Williams
In the absence of a unifying vision, turmoil takes its tollTwo years ago Current ran a four-day forum of reflections on the end of Roe (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4). What has been the impact of this decision? Two writers who contributed to the original forum reflect on what the end of Roe means today. ***Internal divisions are roiling the anti-Roe coalitionSusan McWilliams BarndtFor a long time in the U.S. you could be pro-life by being anti-Roe.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt |Dominic A. Aquila |Eric Miller
Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him? When Christopher Lasch died at age sixty-one on Valentine’s Day, 1994, the nation lost a man who for many embodied the very definition of the term intellectual.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt
Susan McWilliams BarndtSusan McWilliams Barndt is Professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She has authored and edited numerous books including A Political Companion to James Baldwin (2017) and The American Road Trip and American Political Thought (2018). Susan McWilliams Barndt | February 15, 2024Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him?
