Seven months (!) of writing in one tweet: Terror is always wrong. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Release all hostages now. Let the aid flow. Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are leaving. Without hope for a shared future, this does not end.

Can’t stop thinking about this Francis Fukuyama paragraph from The End of History.

In analyzing elections over the past decade, it is apparent that broad-based, pre-election coalitions have had better success rates against backsliding leaders than oppositions who have remained divided.

Benjamin Feldman & Dr. Jennifer McCoy in Carnegie Endowment:
carnegieendowment.org/2024/03/27/bet…

US democratic erosion has received a fair amount of attention.

There's been a lot of focus on elections, disinformation & political violence. But US civil society also faces new challenges.

ICNL Alliance lays out 10 legal threats to nonprofits:

icnl.org/post/analysis/…

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an…

If you're going to denounce the mob at Columbia, you should denounce the mob of January 6th.

If you're opposed to the campus mob, you should oppose the MAGA mob.

If you're against campus demagoguery and lawlessness, you should be against Mar-a-Lago demagoguery and lawlessness.

I think being anti-mob may be at the deepest roots of my lifelong work. Mobs, have you ever had the misfortune to be caught in one, are amphibious in their lack of empathy. Lynch mobs are lynch mobs regardless of the ideology they espouse or world they claim to want.