It’s been over a year since I last published a post on this site.
Two reasons for that:
- I spent the 2016-2017 year of my doctoral program in quantitative methods courses. Not quite essay material.
- The 2016 presidential election.
To say the last election cycle was brutal is an understatement. To say that we understand its results a year later is overly optimistic.
I honestly wasn’t sure how I wanted to respond to what transpired, but I didn’t check out.
Rather, I spent the last year reading, observing, listening and learning. While that process is always ongoing for me as a student of politics, communication and history, I believe I’ve built up a decent store of information that could be of use to people trying to understand this very unique time that we’re in.
Tim Talks Politics is still a site about a PhD student sharing what he’s learning, but I’m preparing to give it a bit of a twist.
That twist is going to be less mere reflection on what I’m learning and more of a focus on using that knowledge. The goal is to help people make sense of what increasingly seems to be incomprehensible.
Through it all, my aim is to both model and advocate for a renewed sense of citizenship and civil discourse.
Through the rest of this year, I’ll be posting some pieces offering up some observations on the state of American and world politics, and on how we talk about politics as a society.
I’ll publish the first of those pieces tomorrow. After that, I hope to maintain a fairly regular schedule of biweekly short essays combined with a weekly newsletter (more info coming). Depending on how those go, I hope to launch a podcast as well.
So if you’re interested in the questions and conversations I’m looking to bring to this space, I’d love to hear from you, and would appreciate you inviting other people to the conversation.
Let’s talk some politics!