Archive - Systematic Hatreds

The Connally Doctrine

When U.S. politics become your problem

Aug 24 • Paul Musgrave

Time is a Weapon

Tehran and Ottawa can read a calendar, too

Aug 22 • Paul Musgrave

My Temu-cal Romance

Confessions of a sudden shopaholic

Aug 7 • Paul Musgrave

July 2026

Guardian of the Strait of Forever

President Trump's Endless Eighties Revival

Jul 13 • Paul Musgrave

Avoiding Phony Universals

Speak from your experience, not phony authority

Jul 13 • Paul Musgrave

Highway to the Coolest Zone

War's back? I'm back!

Jul 9 • Paul Musgrave

May 2026

Out of the World Politics

Enough alien invasions--let's try alien negotiations

Published on Systematic Hatreds • May 10

Will Obesity Be Legal After Ozempic?

May 7 • Paul Musgrave

Political Science In the Polycrisis

My keynote talk to an online APSA conference

May 3 • Paul Musgrave

April 2026

Reading Carol Cohn in Tehran

(Again, technically in Doha)

Apr 13 • Paul Musgrave

Waiting for the Americans

Notes from the brink

Apr 7 • Paul Musgrave

When the hegemon wants your fealty

Apr 1 • Paul Musgrave

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