Political Science among the punditocracy
One of the missions of the Monkey Cage is to bring a better understanding of political science to the punditocracy. But perhaps bringing political scientists to the punditocracy would be even better. And Rachel Maddow, who has just gotten her own show on MSNBC, has a doctorate in political science from Oxford. I’m not aware of any other political science Ph.Ds who are card carrying political commenters - are there any? (of course there are political scientists like Larry Sabato who often provide quotes to the media, but I think that’s a different thing).
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Bill Schneider @ CNN has a PhD in political science from Harvard: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/schneider.bill.html
Posted by: Patrick Brandt | August 20, 2008 10:17 PM
Ken Bode has a PhD in political science from UNC.
Posted by: Phil Klinkner | August 20, 2008 10:49 PM
Andrew Sullivan. George Will. Eric Alterman. Charles Murray.
Posted by: John | August 20, 2008 10:49 PM
Fareed Zakaria has a PhD from Harvard in poli sci
Posted by: matt | August 20, 2008 11:39 PM
George Will.
Posted by: C. Zorn | August 21, 2008 09:47 AM
Monica Crowley has a Ph.D. in IR/IS from Columbia.
(And, FWIW, John McLaughlin has a philosophy Ph.D.).
Posted by: prison rodeo | August 21, 2008 09:55 AM
Bill Kristol and his roommate Alan Keyes both have PhDs in Government from Harvard.
Posted by: Eric L. | August 21, 2008 10:43 AM
“Andrew Sullivan. George Will. Eric Alterman. Charles Murray.”
I don’t know who Eric Alterman is, but if these other 3 have PhDs, how much better would the world have been if we could have just found them a nice tenured job at some tier 2 school? I think the U.S. and its politics would have been better off had they not been provided commentary over the last few decades.
Posted by: Anonymous | August 21, 2008 12:18 PM
George Will had a tenure track position at Michigan State University.
Posted by: Brian H. | August 21, 2008 12:52 PM
Jerome Corsi (Harvard 1972), author of The Obama Nation and co-author of Unfit for Command.
Posted by: John | August 22, 2008 06:39 PM