As a Tufts grad, let me say this is the first thing I've heard of Tufts doing in awhile that hasn't made me cringe. Congratulations!!!

Fantastic news!

This has made my weekend.

Congrats.

As a former resident of the Deep South (that is, Chicago south of Hyde Park), I have to say that this is a loss for Chicago too. Arkansas (that is, Chicago south of 22nd Street) needs more advocates, and you were a good one (if a bit critical!).

Cranky

As an addendum:

1. Wing Works in Somerville sells the best wings in the known universe. They deliver. Get 'em with the garlic & parmesan sauce.

2. If you ever have an occasion to use the men's room in the philosophy department, I'd be interested to know if the "philosopher list" is still in one of the stalls.

3. Redbones has really good Southern food and a nice selection of microbrews. It also has lots of local and small-operation root beers.

4. There is no good Chinese food within 25 miles of Tufts. It's all disgusting. Even Harvard Square is pretty weak for Chinese.

Congrats! Wow, that was fast. Things really turned around for you quickly. Will you miss teaching undergrads? Best of luck moving to the Boston area.
Javier

Congratulations. I assume, after the approval of the Board, you will also be crossing out that "untenured perspective" in the upper right corner and replacing with "now tenured perspective", no?

Well done, Dan. Chicago (the city if not the U) will miss you.

Kelli

Congratulations!

For good Chinese food, Boston is not that far from NYC, and the Chinatown bus is only $30 round trip.

Perhaps this was best all along for everyone. The programme you are going to work for sounds more policy oriented. Chicago has an image of a 'thinkery' -- to borrow from Aristophanes -- neither approach is better than the other, but perhaps the fit is better for you at a place closer future to real live bomb droppers --uh, US foreign policy makers.

Congrats

Congratulations! You will love Boston and the Sox.

Good for you! Let Chicago hang onto the bombs and rockets until M and P and the rest pass on to the Great Beyond. To paraphrase a prescient, if middle-aged, journal article, "Does anybody still CARE about Realism?"

(Apparently not Charles Krauthammer, who made the IR 101 mistake of conflating Neorealism and Realism in a recent column.)

Good points about the "real" academic world. That's an explanation that needs wider dissemination. On my best day ever, I'll never earn a third of what my financially much-wiser spouse earns at her law firm.

And just because it's on "my free time" doesn't make perusing journals at 3:00 a.m. any more palatable....

Glad to hear that. Sorry you'll have to experience the next 85 years of Red Sox futility up close, but no doubt you'll be too busy accomplishing great things to care overly much.

No good chinese food nearby? I'm not sure, man.

The best chinese food I've had, to be sure, is Sichuan Gourmet 40 minutes away in Framingham, but closer to home, Zoe's on Beacon St is quite decent, as is a very low-key place where Broadway hits Medford St. (the name currently escapes me).

Also, there is good food downtown, which of course is a bit of a trek. Grand Chow Chau and East Ocean City are both pretty tasty (though personally I prefer the Framingham place).

Contrats! What wonderful news!

Re: Chinese Food - I agree that there is a lot of bad chinese food in Boston. That said, for more authentic fare in that area, you might try Qingdao Garden on Mass. Ave. (Shangdong food) and the dumplings at Wang's Fast Food (don't let the name scare you away) on Broadway.

Good luck!

As a current Tufts undergrad, I'm glad to here it. Welcome. Everyone is right about the stunning lack of quality Chinese food, but did not emphasize the lack of quality pizza as well. Also, the best bagels are Dunkin' Donuts - very sad for a NYer like me. In the immediate, Anna's (cheap, really good Mexican), Redbones (Southern BBQ), Wing Works (Umm...Wings?), Cafe de Crepe (Crepes and Italian) Antonia's (nice Italian) and Diva's (Indian) are all recommended, in order of my personal preference.

Wherever you end up living, make sure that there are no frats in the immediate area - yellow bushes and loud music until 2am on weekends may not go well with a young child. In fact, I have a friend who went to Sommerville High School who had a rather negative view on the school - perhaps you should look into the more outlying 'burbs.

The Fletcher buildings themselves are currently being renovated. I'm sure you're familiar with the school's rep. Nice place, nice facilities.

Have fun being the only conservative professor I know of who's outside of the economics department, though my knowledge of Fletcher profs is slim. The students I've met (again, few) tend to be incredibly bright, knowledgable and idealistic.

You might wanna read this . And this. It's a pretty good student paper, glance through it from time to time. These guys are Coulter Conservatives. Read at your own peril, and know that they are unpopular with some of the faculty, if you are considering a submission.

GO JUMBOS!!! WOOOO!!!!

Congrats, Prof. Drezner. I knew you'd land on your feet. Fletcher's a great spot for you.

This is very good news, Dan. Congratulations!

I won't even mention that the relevant comparison between a post in higher education and one in some other field is not the one you might have made before you began your education, but the one you are practically able to make now. In other words, do you really have options now that would pay so much more than Fletcher that the greater job security there does not vastly outweigh the economic sacrifice? [ed. That is so cheesy. You said you weren't going to mention that, and then you mentioned it] Well, yeah, but I didn't mention that logically the "greater restraint" Dan may need to exercise in the blog should consist in restricting the number of subjects he comments on, not what he says about things he knows very well. [ed. You're doing it again!] When? [ed. Just now! And what does not mentioning the first thing you mentioned have to do with not mentioning the second thing you mentioned?] Well, shut up. I never approved of letting the editor make his comments public, and now I understand why [ed. You didn't before?] This makes it sound as if I'm talking to myself [ed. But you are talking to yourself]. I said, shut up. [ed. Well that's not very mature, is it?] Is too. [ed. Is not].

Readers of this thread will excuse me now while I deal with the editor [ed. You are not "dealing with the editor." You are just getting ready to walk the dog]. I apologize for the disruption, and congratulate Dan again for what sounds like a big move professionally that could also be a lot of fun.

Congrats indeed Dan...all the best to you in Boston

Impressively swift bounce-back Dr. Drezner ! Congratulations!

Congrats! It's great to see you bounce on your fit so soon.

Fletcher does seem an ideal fit for you; a great combination of a good school that does have an orientation to real world issues. Great news!

Great move. Fletcher is a great school. Back in college, before jumping ship early to capitalize on the dot com boom, my plan for graduate school was the joint program at Boalt Law (UC Berkeley) and International Diplomacy at Fletcher. I did a lot of research, and for what I wanted to do, which was international and human rights law and advocacy, Fletcher seemed the best (combined with the Boalt international law program).

congratulations ,Dan. Will Fletcher allow you to have a summer job as general manager?

congratulations ,Dan. Will Fletcher allow you to have a summer job as general manager?

Congratulations Dan!

Although, I have to admit that I turned down Fletcher and opted to attend SIPA at Columbia because the International Security Program is much better. But you're right, for your line of work Fletcher is great place. AND, let's not forget that you'll be back in Boston for the 2006 Red Sox season (and the 2005-2006 offseason!). God Bless Theo Epstein and God Bless the Red Sox! He will be missed!

Congratulations, Dan. Good to see you land on your feet.

Just have to comment, though, that the comment by Hemlock for the Gadflies above is complete nonsense. I think many people would consider much of Dan's work to be "realist" in orientation. Hemlock's conflation of realism with the study of bombs and bullets is completely mistaken. Much of the best work done in the field of international political economy by people like Gilpin, Kirschner, and Drezner is best characterized as "realist."

Further, Hemlock's dismissal of the study of bombs and bullets in an age of a war in Iraq and continuing military tensions in every corner of the globe seems bizarre to say the least.

Let me add my voice to the chorus of congratulations, Dan!

Congrats from us too, Dan! This is the best news I've heard in ages.

Congratulations, and I see that Rove paid you off with a tenured position that you acknowledge will restrict what you write. (I keed, I keed.)

Why are people complaining about a lack of good Chinese restaurants in Somerville/Cambridge? Maybe they don't serve tiki drinks and General Tso's but you can find real Chinese food instead. There are a plethora of fine establishments, especially near MIT. I've lived in both Taiwan and the PRC so I know what I'm talking about. There is also a good Tibetan restaurant near Davis square.

Congratulations, Dan. I live in Arlington, right next door to Medford, so we'll be neighbors. If you find a good grocery store out here, let me know. Maybe we'll run into each other at the deli counter.

Best of luck with the new position.

Congrats, Dan. And good luck.

Congratulations and good luck. As a resident of Washington, DC., I'm partial to Georgetown and SAIS when it comes to applied IR programs but Fletcher is a great school and you will be closer to Red Sox games.

Congratulations! That's terrific news.

Best wishes -- and I'm sure you will do well wherever you are.

Econ question from a mother of a college-bound young-un: Where is all the money going? College tuitions keep going up and up, faster than the inflation rate by far, but professors are illpaid?

We have spent well into the five digits annually for the heavily intensive, well supervised education of our daughter at private school. How can it be so much more expensive for colleges to provide a more distanced experience for young adults?

Just asking.

Spectacular news. Congratulations.

Excellent news, Dan. Too bad for me. i was hoping you would land in the NYC area, and I would turn you into a Yankee fan. Bleacher seats, pin stripes, a cold beer shouting "Jeter! Jeter!" It could have happened.

Congratulations, Dan! And remember, just because you'll be living in Bean Town doesn't mean you have to root for the Sox and/or Pats.

Congratulations, Dan! And remember, just because you'll be living in Bean Town doesn't mean you have to root for the Sox and/or Pats.

Many congrats, Dan. I'm gratified to see that your job uncertainty has been resolved so swimmingly. While I share Laura from 11D's hope to have you land in the NYC area, I harbor no illusions that you could be turned into a Yankee fan. Then again, I'm not exactly the person to do it, given my stubborn loyalties to a team that hasn't won a post-season series since the Fam-a-lee....

Franly I think it would have been better if Dan had to sweat a bit in getting a job, maybe he'd learn some humility and not be such a damn little snot when it comes to other folks losing their careers.

Just my 2 cents.

When I saw the "pretty good day" combination, I just knew it had to be tenure of some kind. That's great. And yes, I think it sounds better than Chicago right now.

Congratulations.

Congrats, Prof.Drezner.

Congratulations!

"Yes, tenure equals lifetime employment." They used to say the same thing about machinists at Boeing. Enjoy every day and keep your eyes open. Best wishes to you and your family in Boston. You can teach your baby to say "Papelbon".

Congrats!! I was getting worried that if Drezner couldn't get the f$#%!g tenure who would have!! Still gotta finish the dissertation and find a job next year thou..arrgghh....too late to quit I guess :))

Congratulations. Be more careful if you have to, of course, but by all means, keep blogging!

re: "the meme about academics having no connection to the real world is a crock of s$#*. "

#1 was nonresponsive. Choosing to live on a commune has economic consequences, too, but that doesn't make it the real world.

#2 demonstrated a case where the number of times a person is an outlier is so high that it undermines your point. Clearly not the real world.

Only #3 was an argument supporting your thesis because it is true about academia and the real world, yes.

Good luck in Medford.

Congratulations. Since everyone is giving restraurant recommendations, here's two suggestions for Japanese food: Ginza, on the edge of Chinatown, and Minado, in Natick.

Also, try to avoid sports talk radio. It can get addicting, especially since you'll be moving here right when they'll be talking mostly Red Sox.

Congrats Dan. Just when I move to Chicago you make the move back to my old 'hood. Let me second the Red Bones endorsement, and also recommend picking up a Brown School Card at the used book store for crazy discounts in Davis Square.

But are you prepared to be the most conservative person in a 5 mile radius?

Seriously, look up 02144 on Political Money Line...there is not a single GWB donation out of about 400 total. Enjoy.

Congradulations!

Congratulations! And welcome to the Boston
area. I just have to efute the claim that
the best bagels are at Dunkin Donuts - no
way! Come over to Brookline, plenty of
good bagels here.

Dr. Drezner,
Congratulations on this achievement; it is richly deserved. Life has a way of taking care of things, and Boston is a fabulous town. As a student at Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, I am envious to see Fletcher get such a top notch policy thinker, but I'm happy for you nonetheless. Cheers!

Congratulations! I guess this goes to show that academics labor markets are at least somewhat efficient.

Tufts (and Boston's) gain is Chicago's loss.

Just a couple more dining suggestions in the Medford/Somerville/Cambride area. Sound Bites, in Ball Square (Broadway in Somerville) has fantastic breakfast. There'a wait, and they'll try to encourage you along if you go during the rush, but it's 100% worth it.

If you like seafood, try East Coast Grill in Inman Square. Lots of Latin influences on the menu, and the worst thing I ever had there was really damn good.

Good luck in Medford.

Great news! Best of luck.

Mazel Tov. That was fast. I am very happy for you. Chicago's loss is Tuft's gain.

Gosh. Congratulations!

I'll add my compliments to the blog's proprietor, not that they mean much since he's never heard of me. But I'd like to call attention to a perhaps overlooked influence of blogging on this course of events.

Yes, possibly it is true that Drezner's blog was the tipping point in Chicago's tenure decision. But nobody knows that or could know that; and please, I do mean to be taken literally. Even people who cast votes do not always know what their interior tipping points are.

But I ask you to look at what has happened since. When you've flagged "Hey look -- no tenure!" and you've written about turning in the tons of material for the review process, well of course you'll write about the outcome; it doesn't come across as special pleading.

And there's a matter of tone. You've already signaled you don't lack courage, because you acknowledge holding views you clearly know to be unpopular; now you take a career blow with ironic distance and no public display of bitterness. To future colleagues, that sings of collegiality.

And the beauty part is, the whole world knows about it! The ordinary, non-blogging virtually anonymous assistant professor who doesn't get tenure at Prestigious U. faces the horrendous task of writing everybody he knows to announce that off-putting fact in the slight hope that someone will respond with a link to a job posting.

How much easier it is, and more efficient, to ensure that Google knows (it does) and have interested people calling you. Furthermore, interested people who harbor no illusions about what kind of ideological principles undergird your work. I am not being in any way facetious; this is a national audition process enabled by the Internet.

Now, the tricky bit is this: the blog has to be good enough that interested people will want to call. That's an accomplshment for which congratulations are truly in order.

No one has any comments about the horrible close-mindedness of liberal academia, or about the remarkable injustice of the anachronistic tenure system? No one? Come on!

Congratulations to Professor Drezner.

As a University of Chicago Law School alum, and a Chicago resident, this is the University of Chicago's loss and Tufts' big gain. Keep up the good blogging if you can (we sorely need good minds like yours who also voice their opinions). More importantly, challenge the good minds you'll see at Fletcher.

Congratulations, especially on tenure.

Congratulations, Professor Drezner. Welcome to the world of professional schools of IR. As I can attest, they are quite good places to ply one's craft!

And, welcome to the tenured ranks!

Warmest congratulations!

As a graduate of both U.of C. and Tufts, I offer my congratulations as well. I currently live in Chicago, and the thing I miss most about living in the Boston area is the plethora of fantastic sandwich shops they have there. There is nothing in Chicago that compare's to Bob's Fine Foods in Medford, and I heartily recommend you stop there on the way from your airport to wherever your first destination is to get a steak tip sandwich.

Go Jumbos!

I think you came out ahead, Daniel. Congratulations!

Congratulations. This is great news for you and I deeply hope you thrive in Tufts (it sounds like a great place for you), and that you keep blogging, even if not as often due to your new responsibilities.

Congratulations on the move to Medford.

As for Chinese, Chang Sho on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge is decent. Not out of the ballpark good, but decent. The good news is that the best hamburger in New England is not far from Tufts at O'Sullivan's Pub, 282 Beacon Street in Somerville. Finally, I always liked Blue Ribbon BBQ on Mass. Ave in Arlington over Redbones (which I think is wildly over-rated).

Have fun dining your way through the Boston-area.

Best of luck to you in your new job. Congratulations to your new employer on making a splendid choice.

Congrats. And oh (ahem,) by the way..Daniel, check the comments on the day that you were denied. As a tenured Boston area prof, I had a great deal to say--at least those couple days.

But, my 'big' point that was that I predicted (actually, I cheated...since I knew) that you'd be in Boston next year. I didn't say Tufts exactly to your readers, but we both knew, heh?

Cheers...see at the Charles Regatta

Far too many comments for you to read down this far, but "Welcome to Bahston," future home of universal government healthcare. You do realize, of course, that you will literally be Daniel stepping into the lions' den in this bastion of intense liberalism?

Congratulations, Dan. This is a quck and happy ending to what I feared would be a long hard journey.

Congratulations Dan. Your points 1, 2 and 3 are right on the nail. Best of luck in Medford.

Congratulations Dan! Maybe we can get together for a trip to Fenway.

Congrats, the Fletcher school has top-notch students. You'll love it.

It's a living.

Dan:

I'm relieved and happy, both for you and your audience. You write a remarkably good blog and I'm happy to know that you will be employed at a University that will allow (and encourage) you to continue.

Good things happen to good people. In your case, it happened quickly.

Best wishes to you and your family.

Rich: technically Tufts is in 02155, not 02144 (which is where I currently live). Prof. Drezner I think will find a nice mix of practical moderates and liberals at Fletcher with most of the bomb-throwers confined to the humanities at the college of A&S.

This is the second GREAT piece of Tufts news this week!

Lack of good pizza? Didn't the place under Berklee's bookstore win the national competition a few years ago? The locals took a bunch of us there for a summer school a couple of years ago.

Congratulations.
Best (relatively) local Chinese food is Shangri La in Belmont, theough Changsho and some others are acceptable. But the Indian, Thai and Tibetan is (relatively) better than the Chinese.

This is wonderful news. Congratulations!

asg is wrong. Village Temple in Brookline is great!

Lovely, Dan! Wonderful news - and so deserved.

Fletcher hosted Hans Blix a month or so ago, aired on C-SPAN a week or two back. He made much of Bush's "Mars" and Europe's "Venus" in international affairs philosophy; Blix boasted of the superiority of the latter and criticised the former, with smiles from all. Sadly, however, no one dared to press the most obvious questions of Euro-UN failures during Q & A: Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, Nigeria, Kurdistan, Iraq.... I hope a newly tenured professor there will be of more use?

Otherwise, I hope you won't mind if I pop up from Cambridge to chat over your newest book sometime?

Again, well done.

Eric- you have to try Finagle a Bagle and Diamond Deli in Newton.

James A. Wolf and Richard Cownie - I don't have a car. I have heard that there are good bagel places in Boston. Unfortunately, the best within walking distance of Tufts that I've found is Dunkin' Donuts, a fact that makes me quite sad. Don't tell my parents, but it's one of the big plusses of Thanksgiving break. Now, something about midterms and this week...

Wow... the Fletcher School has been a dream school for me since I switched to a poli sci major my sophomore year, and now it's even more so! Congratulations!

Eric, Finagle (or one branch) is T accesable. It's in Colldige Corner.

Changsho! That's it. I knew there was one good place fairly nearby but the name escaped me.

People, I realize there may be good places in Brookline, Framingham, etc etc., but if you are in Medford/Somerville/Porter Sq, you're out of luck.

Dan - Congratulations! What, with the so-called "burst" of the Boston real estate bubble now imminent (according to many), you're all set.

Few things about the 'hood:

1.) "Redbones" in Davis (within walking distance to the Tufts Campus) 'ain't all that.' It rests largely on its laurels. Better to go for Blue Ribbon in Arlington (one town over) or Uncle Pete's in Eastie. Will be more than happy to take you out at some point.

2.) Idem in re Chinese. Wang's in Magoun Square, Somerville (again, within walking distance from Tufts.). Best Chinese outside of Chinatown, Boston.

3.) How do you feel about Tibetian? (snort - lots of that here. Indian, too.)

Am certain that you've plenty of connections heah, but thought I'd put my two cents' worth in.

Best to you.

Wow, that's great news! Congratulations!

Terrific news. Congratulations.

I knew you'd land on your feet.

Congratulations.

Congrats, Professor!

As a Tufts undergrad, it's great to see they're getting a little bit of intellectual diversity. Good luck and welcome.

As a Penn undergrad, I am sorry you will not be gracing our hallowed halls with your presence. Regardless, I wish you best of luck with Fletcher, and of course I heart your blog.

As a Penn undergrad, I am sorry you will not be gracing our hallowed halls with your presence. Regardless, I wish you best of luck with Fletcher, and of course I heart your blog.

Congratulations and welcome to Boston. Tufts is a fine school and Fletcher is its jewel. And the politics of Massachusetts can benefit from real world sanity.

Congrats to the Dan-Man.

You'll find Boston strangely "small" after living in Chicago. It's less of a city and more of a giant village, with all the pluses and minuses. And you'll have to put up with our wacky weather :)

If you can, live on the North Shore (Lynn or north). It's spectacular, if a little provincial. Or try Arlington or Belmont. These places even have decent restaurants now!

It's not the Boston weather that's the problem. It's the obnoxious Red Sox fans that populate the place :).

Daniel,

As an '05 Fletcher grad, let me extend a warm welcome to the mafia. It will be great to have you on the faculty there.

Having followed your saga on the Volokh Conspiracy, and being both a Tufts and Fletcher Alumnus (A' 76, F'76), I am delighted for both you and the school. As a member of the Fletcher Club of D.C., let me be the first to invite you to one of our happy hours next time you are in D.C. or, better yet, to speak to our members about a topic of your choice.

I'll pile on with another "Congratulations."

Congrats Dan! I've posted about this up on prawfs (since I couldn't see if you had a trackback function that was working).
Here's the link:
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2005/11/landing_on_his_.html

Congratulations!

Pizza: Stefani's, on main st. in Cambridge right by MIT. Get the cheese.

Ice cream: Harrells, Harvard Square.

Um, that's really all one needs in life.

Prof.,

Congratulations on landing a great new job! As a life long Red Sox fan and both a former Bostonian and Chicagoan, I think you will be quite happy. If you get a chance, you might try living in Back Bay for a while- I miss it badly.

You've probably already found Red Bones BBQ and the Burren tavern. Enjoy.

Lew

Kudos, Congrats and Bravo
That was very quick

What's wrong with all the Tufts grads out there? Soundbites is the breakfast in the US!

Terrific news, Dan! Way to go!

This isn't just a matter of landing on your feet, as the post above said. Getting this professorship is more like doing a mid-air backflip, landing, and then taking a bow.

Congratulations on joining the Flectcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. As a Fletcher grad, I can assure you, the school takes second place to none in the areas of International Security, Negotiations and International Law. The school is also incredibly international, as you well know. Over half the student body is international. The rest of the world seems to know, what few of our citizens realize, and that is Fletcher is the best. Most of your students are mid-level diplomats and officials that will soon rise to high level positions in their country after they graduate. I gave some thought to the Harvard and Hopkins programs on International Security until I saw the Fletcher program, which just blew every one else away. One sure sign of which way the wind was blowing, was most of the Harvard International Security students were taking courses at Fletcher, to learn, while getting the degree from Harvard, for the name recognition. All the best in your new position, you are a wonderful addition to the faculty.

Congratulations, glad that you had so many good offers. I'll continue to look forward to your scribblings on the electronic wall.

I definitely second the props given to Blue Ribbon (BBQ, Arlington) and RF O'Sullivans (pub grub, Somerville).

But I can't believe Pinocchio's pizza and subs in Harvard square hasn't been mentioned.

And for my money, the best Chinese food outside of Chinatown is at Royal East (Cambridge, Central Square).

There's also a wonderful scuzzy Mexican joint on Mass Ave. between Harvard and Porter squares. (On the left going toward Porter.) I forget the name, but it's a classic.

Warmest congratulations.

I too find that blogging is not contrary to academic service, but rather a potential extension of it. Bringing insightful, academic comment in real time to the internet community is a valuable form of community service.

Sounds like a great opportunity Dan. Best of luck!!

So glad to hear about this. Congrats!

BTW, you'll also have to change the "all from an untenured perspective" bit in your tagline.

Congrats Dan! Glad that things resolved so quickly for you. Keep up the great blog!

Wow. Obviously this is good news. But talking about how Fletcher has bitch-slapped the University of Chicago! Phew! Geez, if I were responsible for denying you tenure at Chicago I would have to make serious efforts to wipe the egg off my face. The collective intelligence of the job market sure as hell has given you greater smirking satisfaction power than you could have wished for. Here's to you gloating in the UofC halls and corridors for the remaining months until Fletcher!

Congratulations with your great new job ... with tenureship! I'm glad to see everything worked out so well. Enjoy Fletcher!

Congrats on this wonderful news! So wonderful in fact that I've finally delurked!

(to help you stop scratching your head in puzzlement -- I'm an Eph ['92] who not only knew you but also hung out with Eric K & Joellyn and if that isn't enough to place me then I'll just leave you be. ;)

I'm over in Cambridge, so anytime you need to sneak out and catch some Red Sox on NESN, my TV will already be tuned to it -- come on over!

Despite what was written above, the Primary Source is not a group of "Coulter Conservatives." As a Tufts and Source alum, I can say from experience that the Primary Source is one of the few organizations on campus that is committed to intellectual diversity. It is a good magazine that publishes the work of moderates, conservatives, libertarians, and even the occasional liberal. It's true that the magazine has occasionally overreached but it must be kept in mind that it is unfairly vilified by much of the Tufts community. Prof. Drezner, please cooperate with the Source if anyone there is smart enough to ask you for help.

As a PhD alum who necessarily has a continuing interest in the market value of the name, I'm sorry that the Chicago Department did not tenure you. You seem to be exactly the kind of person it needs. One wonders what reincarnation of Max Weber they expect, instead. But from your viewpoint, Fletcher is, to put it mildly, a pretty good "rebound," even if the weather there is no better. P.S. I too taught at Boulder, where we both know the weather is better.

Congrats, and check out some of the new restaurants in Williamstown when you get back to MA...