Steven Pincus

Professor of History University of Chicago. British Empire, Revolutions, Political Economy, Atlantic History, early America, early modern Europe, Enlightenment

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media, calling him a “real loser” for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE.

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🚨NEW: Elon Musk has suspended U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar's Twitter account. This comes as the Trump Administration and its allies ratchet up attacks on Minnesota in the aftermath of the ICE Renee Good killing.

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[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

@JRakove @TerryMoran @peterbakernyt Well. One might want to qualify that about George III. He did see himself as a constitutional monarch. But he also thought 1688 had gone too far. No argument re:Trump

[Late Stuart Symposium 2026 @stuartsymposium]

As the holidays approach, here is a gentle reminder to submit your abstracts to the Late Stuart Symposium, held at Christ's College, Cambridge, on 4 April 2026.

Submissions are due on Monday, 5 January - Please get in touch with any questions!
#cfp #earlymodern #callforpapers

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

249 years later - are America's founding principles respected? https://t.co/BwqyM6edCi

[Tomorrow’s Affairs @tmrwsaffairs]

🇺🇸⚖️ Is America forgetting what made it strong?

249 years after declaring independence for free trade, open borders & global ties, rising tariffs, closed doors & isolationism threaten to undo it all.

🔔 Will history repeat itself?

Full analysis 👉 https://t.co/czzMqhgkSL by @PincusSteven

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#USHistory #Geopolitics #Future

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

Trump’s Rejection of America’s Founding Principles by Steve Pincus - Project Syndicate https://t.co/wF2At0D5gu

[Amilia Gillies @AmiliaGillies]

❗️CALL FOR PAPERS❗️
We are seeking abstracts on topics relating to early modern scandal and corruption!
Please consider submitting to present at our conference, 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800', at @ihr_history on 5th and 6th June 2025!

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

Today's Guardian includes an obituary of the historian of global slavery, Trevor Burnard. Trevor's untimely death is a great loss for the profession and students and colleagues @HistoryatHull and @WilberforceHull
https://t.co/ix4bPt5b1j

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

@AsheeshKSi Early modernists are particularly bad. Instead of suggesting why early modern history is important they tend to maintain why it is like 20th century history

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

@AsheeshKSi I do agree with your basic position: most historians do a bad job of making the case for the importance of the field in general/1

[Grace Mallon @GraceMallon3]

Tfw you've promised yourself not to take on any more book reviews and then Alison drops another banger

[Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice]

RIP historian Trevor Bernard, 1960-2024

[Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice]

Reposting…! This is actually the easiest, and most clearly constitutional way to reform the Supreme Court…⁦ My article for @newrepublic⁩
The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Stronger https://t.co/qFfT7WDkZi

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

The US Supreme Court made the President more powerful than George III

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is wrong to argue that the US Supreme Court has made “the President ... a king above the law.” In reality, the conservative majority went even further than that, historian @PincusSteven explains. https://t.co/iipU1LLG6X

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

@DWaldstreicher @knott_sarah @markdboonie Post 1688 English kings

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

@DWaldstreicher @knott_sarah @markdboonie Well some of us have. The point to be emphasized is that the ‘founders’ wanted to restore the limits of 1689 where they reversed Godden v. Hales. Roberts has resurrected Godden. Thus making the American president more powerful than 1688 English kings

[Steven Pincus @PincusSteven]

@DWaldstreicher @knott_sarah @markdboonie Nelson’s argument is based on concerns that there were insufficient legal limits on ministers. Until 1774 many argued legally constrained kings were preferable to unconstrained ministers