Nicole Penn

Assistant Director, Social, Cultural, Constitutional Studies @AEI | PhD Student @HistArthGMU | Wife | Rod Serling optimist, Hayao Miyazaki pessimist

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

I've accepted that I'm never going to "win" at Twitter because every time I'm tempted to send something into the void I imagine Yuval Levin's disappointed face

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

You can read and download Gordon Wood's essay in full here: https://t.co/BQeaI3L9hU

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Gordon Wood wrote the lead essay for "Democracy and the American Revolution," the first volume in @AEI's "America at 250" series. I had to pick my jaw up off the ground the first time I read how he summed up the democratic force the Revolution unleashed:

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Absolutely devastated by the loss of Gordon Wood. What a gift to have gotten to know and learn from him over the past few years

[American Enterprise Institute @AEI]

AEI’s @johncfortier1, @ChrisStirewalt, @SeanTrende, and @kkondik of Sabato’s Crystal Ball will discuss primary results and redistricting efforts tomorrow, June 10th, at 9 am. https://t.co/eIoXhWso2B

[Jerry Z. Muller @jerryzmuller]

Wise observation from the late Gordon S. Wood.
“I don’t think history teaches a lot of little lessons, frankly,” he told C-SPAN. “I think it teaches one big lesson, which is that nothing really ever works out the way the perpetrators intend. I can’t think of any major event in the history of the world that ever turned out the way the participants who launched it expected.”

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

@JohnNazelrod Indeed - he was the definition of a gentleman and a scholar

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Absolutely devastated by the loss of Gordon Wood. What a gift to have gotten to know and learn from him over the past few years

[American Enterprise Institute @AEI]

Just released: The American Revolution in American History. In the eighth volume of the series, historians explore how generations of Americans have defined, debated, and drawn on the memory of the American Revolution.

Purchase today:
https://t.co/xzthNaNQdC

[Survey Center on American Life @amersurveyctr]

Most Americans report that they trust their neighbors, but those with a college degree report trusting their neighbors to an even greater extent.

[American Enterprise Institute @AEI]

Gordon Wood's passing is a loss felt deeply throughout AEI.

Professor Wood's scholarship has been a cornerstone to our understanding of American history and how our founding values prevail today. He will be profoundly missed.

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

"Nothing but the ideals coming out of the Revolution and their subsequent rich and contentious history can turn such an assortment of different individuals into the “one people” ... To be an American is not to be someone, but to believe in something." - Gordon Wood (2025)

[American Enterprise Institute @AEI]

GOP legislators’ growing comfort with resisting Trump may be growing due to his plunging poll numbers, writes AEI’s @kevinrkosar https://t.co/gUcvpnk2Hj

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

@DanielGullotta I'm just stunned. I can't believe we'll be reaching this milestone without him.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Fantastic piece by Yuval Levin for our Next 250 series.
"Is the American Experiment Legitimate?"

https://t.co/zlPqIsuXwZ

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Yuval Levin on Pope Leo's "Magnifica Humanitas," Psalm 115, and what idolatry looks like in the age of artificial intelligence: https://t.co/14wZqCsWQm

[Philip Wallach @PhilipWallach]

OK, I admit, I find this abominable, but it's a useful exercise for checking our democratic intuitions. Most of us still believe in meaningful local representation, even if this year's re-drawers see pursuit of partisan mandates as much more important.

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Yuval Levin on Pope Leo's "Magnifica Humanitas," Psalm 115, and what idolatry looks like in the age of artificial intelligence: https://t.co/14wZqCsWQm

[victoria holmes @VicAntHol]

Really haven’t felt anything since reading this in fourth grade

[Michael J. O'Loughlin @MikeOLoughlin]

"So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean," Leo writes in new encyclical. More at @NCRonline.

[Danielle Allen @dsallentess]

3/ Education has 3 purposes: economic (sustaining livelihood), civic (participating as citizens), and existential (finding meaning and community). We've spent decades flattening this to just economics.

[American Enterprise Institute @AEI]

Just released: The American Revolution and the Constitution. In the seventh volume of the series, scholars of history, law, and politics discuss how the American Revolution unleashed the forces of constitution-making in the United States.

Purchase today: https://t.co/93p5yP5ARI