Eitan Hersh
@eitanhersh
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Political scientist at Tufts. Elections, civic engagement, American politics. Director, Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education
Greater New England area
Joined January 2010
Tomorrow at noon, our Politics and Culture from All Sides reading group will be reading Marty Makary's 2024 book, Blind Spots. Prof. Keren Ladin (Community Health) will be discussant. Join us.
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i recommend reading this.
I spent a long weekend in Washington. Here is what I learned about Groypers, Jew haters, and the fight for the conservative soul and future. It’s not pretty.
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This is tomorrow. Very excited about it. Come join us.
Great event coming up in a few weeks. Open to the Tufts community and to the public. If you're in Boston, come join us as we learn with @Musa_alGharbi
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It is ridiculous for @JasmineForUS to spout this baseless conspiracy theory about Dominion voting machines and shame on @marceelias for not refuting it immediately. https://t.co/Vrq8qEfFDc As a reminder Elias' Democracy Docket has written that "Trump and his allies have made
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My conversation with the Harvard EdCast @hgse about the Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education https://t.co/iCLq5vfSqe
gse.harvard.edu
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Outstanding discussion today
Amazing turnout last week. This Wed, we're discussing Patrick Deneen's work, including Why Liberalism Failed. Tufts Professor Vickie Sullivan (political theory) will be discussant. (We had a packed crowd last week and ran out of sandwiches. We'll have more sandwiches!)
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atheist/agnostic Americans are now the biggest single voting bloc in the Democratic Party, and their leftist views may be alienating another of the party's traditional sources of strength ... new piece from me and Steve Ansolabehere https://t.co/dCiwaiRqoE
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Political hobbyism alert: be wary of interviewers who are principally entertainers rather than truth seekers.
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Amazing turnout last week. This Wed, we're discussing Patrick Deneen's work, including Why Liberalism Failed. Tufts Professor Vickie Sullivan (political theory) will be discussant. (We had a packed crowd last week and ran out of sandwiches. We'll have more sandwiches!)
Our new Center is hosting a weekly reading/discussion group, starting next week. Next Wed. at noon, we'll kick off our series by reading "Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity" by Lisa Siraganian. Tufts Professor Michael Glennon (Fletcher) will offer discussant comments.
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Reminder that the first event of our “expanding viewpoints” center is today at noon at Tufts, discussing the AAUP publication referenced in this thread. On the downside, AAUP seems like a disaster. On the bright side, I’m sure we’ll have a robust discussion about this!
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Great event coming up in a few weeks. Open to the Tufts community and to the public. If you're in Boston, come join us as we learn with @Musa_alGharbi
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Our new Center is hosting a weekly reading/discussion group, starting next week. Next Wed. at noon, we'll kick off our series by reading "Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity" by Lisa Siraganian. Tufts Professor Michael Glennon (Fletcher) will offer discussant comments.
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Our new center at Tufts, focused on expanding viewpoints in higher education, has posted a new position. This position will help with many areas of programming, but will be especially involved in student-facing roles. Come work with us! https://t.co/61S8DMkKM5
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It is all too common for faculty and administrators to refer to a campus conversation or class discussion of public policy as causing "harm". We must challenge the use of this language.
We must repudiate the idea that "speech can be violence" once and for all. @glukianoff and I wrote about the dangers of promoting this idea on college campuses back in 2017, in @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/BkFKx2d1Y6
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A 5-minute interview I did with @WBUR aired this AM. It offers a window into what we're up to at @TuftsUniversity with the new Center on Expanding Viewpoints. https://t.co/oVETAxj93w
wbur.org
Tufts University professor Eitan Hersh says colleges like the one he works at are too ideologically narrow — shutting out ideas from conservatives, religious people and others outside the academic...
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It's official. We've launched a new center at Tufts to expand viewpoints in higher education! We'll have a lot going on this year: events, new curricula on controversial subjects, research convenings. https://t.co/VzWYwOQ1ga
https://t.co/Xy06kVRXgn
https://t.co/5TJxTMoCT1
bostonglobe.com
The new Tufts center, aimed at broadening perspectives students are exposed to, comes as colleges across the country are considering how to expand "viewpoint diversity" under the Trump administration.
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Who Wants #Stakeholder #Capitalism? Public & Elite Perceptions of the Role of #Business #Leaders in #Politics By @eitanhersh & Sarang Shah https://t.co/t2rLOamIpO
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More details -and formal announcement- to come later, but for now: I'm hiring an associate director for a new center on expanding viewpoints in higher ed: https://t.co/kTSzKEan0Z This is a big opportunity to create a positive vision for the future of higher ed. Come work with me!
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I second this. RCV politics are so odd. It's basically going after the part of voting that people find hardest - figuring out who to vote for - and making specifically that part harder. And the research is clear there is basically no upside to doing this.
At a time when Boston’s Election Department is under state receivership for our failure to effectively administer the 2024 election, now is not the time to make this major change. Our top priority should be to fix the current problems we already have.
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