Au revoir pendant une courte période
One of the quadrennial rituals following presidential elections is a whole series of conferences about “What Does This Election Mean?” For those who attend, it’s an opportunity to acquire some semi-useful cognitive frames that sound good at cocktail parties and are even occasionally correct. For those who are asked to present, this is an opportunity ...
One of the quadrennial rituals following presidential elections is a whole series of conferences about "What Does This Election Mean?" For those who attend, it's an opportunity to acquire some semi-useful cognitive frames that sound good at cocktail parties and are even occasionally correct. For those who are asked to present, this is an opportunity to go somewhere nice on someone else's dime and decompress from the exhaustion created by paying close attention to the election. There's a clear hierarchy of these types of conferences -- the more remote and enticing the locale, the better. I'm not sure how I lucked into this one, but I'll be in Paris for the next few days to talk about "The United States After the 2004 Election," courtesy of the French Center on the United States. Here's a link to the provisional program. Informed readers will be well aware that I'm punching above my pundit class compared to the other invitees. I plan on treating this the same way my wife and I did when we went on our honeymoon and stayed at resorts we never could have afforded under normal circumstances -- a mixture of bemused detachment and nervous awe. Talk amongst yourselves -- or:
One of the quadrennial rituals following presidential elections is a whole series of conferences about “What Does This Election Mean?” For those who attend, it’s an opportunity to acquire some semi-useful cognitive frames that sound good at cocktail parties and are even occasionally correct. For those who are asked to present, this is an opportunity to go somewhere nice on someone else’s dime and decompress from the exhaustion created by paying close attention to the election. There’s a clear hierarchy of these types of conferences — the more remote and enticing the locale, the better. I’m not sure how I lucked into this one, but I’ll be in Paris for the next few days to talk about “The United States After the 2004 Election,” courtesy of the French Center on the United States. Here’s a link to the provisional program. Informed readers will be well aware that I’m punching above my pundit class compared to the other invitees. I plan on treating this the same way my wife and I did when we went on our honeymoon and stayed at resorts we never could have afforded under normal circumstances — a mixture of bemused detachment and nervous awe. Talk amongst yourselves — or:
1) Check out the new scholar-bloggers — Becker/Posner and Left2Right. And do remember that they’re moving down the learning curve when it comes to the art of blogging. 2) There seems to be a kerfuffle about Natalie Portman. Click on Jonathan Last’s Weekly Standard article to start, and then go here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Au revoir!!
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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