Re-reading Thucydides and it reveals so clearly that political science is redundant, a mistake. I went to one of those quant programs that derided the Classics and now realize it was a self-preservation maneuver
Unrelated, but I've written syllabi for a few friends the past year and browsing others it's sad how they've converged without coordination. Stale, remedial, boring-- US Politics and International Relations aren't Calculus, to be taught from a thick book titled the subject matter
All the revisionism, "critiquing" the Classics, and we've still landed on the least interesting outcome. All the middling programs should be sapped, replaced with math and the Classics. We've shown ourselves to be incapable of an inventive, rigorous alternative
Harvard Intro to American Politics syllabus: giant textbook and articles from WaPo and Vox (lol). Your assumption that the prestige credentialed are mostly dumb isn't wrong (educatable in theory but good luck telling an A+ Harvard student they actually don't know anything)
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