1/2ish Hmm... the *fame* problem. 🤔 Since I can neither think of a witty rejoinder nor offer any good advice on how to accrue fame, lemme ask a hopefully interesting question, namely: do you know of any quantitative research on what levels of preexisting visibility & support are needed to have a...

2/now 3ish ... start a "discourse war" online and come out with some measure of greater support for your cause. I ask since I know there's a whole body of work on thresholds of success for non-violent civil resistance movements and for violent revolutionary movements (mostly thinking of the semi...

3 oops now 4...-breaking through to mainstream journalism ideas of political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan first in their 2011 book cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civ... but later in, say, pages of the Guardian next to your column, eg, March of this year www.theguardian.com/world/protes...

4/4 [I promise I'll shut up soon!😀] And even though Chenoweth & Stephan draw on the whole 20th Century too and thus have 200ish violent conflicts & 100ish civil resistance movements as data points, I gotta imagine the battlefields of Twitter/X & other social media offer orders of magnitude more!

P.S. I have no ties to either Chenoweth or Stephan, and have no idea if either would be a good podcast guest for _In Bed with the Right_ just as women (well, Chenoweth is non-binary... indeed first non-binary "faculty dean" at Harvard) in political science or as, say, casualties of DOGE "feeding...

... US Institute of Peace into the woodchipper" (or, wait... Elon fed USAID into the woodchipper & just let his misfit youth squat in the US Institute of Peace and make a big ol' mess eventually causing a rat and roach infestation www.the-independent.com/news/world/a... I lose track! Oy!)

Oops. Forgot to make explicit my maybe-wrongheaded-motivatiton for suggesting either as a podcast guest, ie, role of gender in the relative influence of US foreign policy of State vs Defense Depts or academic "peace/civil resistance" vs "war/counterinsurgency" study. Sorry to have blathered on.🤐