{"id":14056,"date":"2026-02-10T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=14056"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:07:49","slug":"ej-fagan-09-on-think-tanks-in-us-politics-tomorrow-at-2pm-in-mondor-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/ej-fagan-09-on-think-tanks-in-us-politics-tomorrow-at-2pm-in-mondor-204\/","title":{"rendered":"EJ Fagan \u201909 on Think Tanks in US Politics Tomorrow at 2pm in Mondor 204"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday, February 11 at 2pm in Mondor 204, the Political Science Department, Public Administration Program, and Social Science Program welcome PC alum EJ Fagan \u201909, for a talk on his new book, The Thinkers (Oxford 2024), analyzing the rise of partisan think tanks and their impact on polarization in American politics. A graduate of the Political Science Department at PC, EJ is an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois-Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Fagan-Event-flyer-791x1024.png\" alt=\"Image of a man, EJ Fagan, and black text on a light background announcing Fagan's talk at 2pm on February 11 in Mondor 204, concerning think tanks and polarization in US politics.\" class=\"wp-image-14057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Fagan-Event-flyer-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Fagan-Event-flyer-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Fagan-Event-flyer-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Fagan-Event-flyer-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Fagan-Event-flyer.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 11 at 2pm in Mondor 204, the Political Science Department, Public Administration Program, and Social Science Program welcome PC alum EJ Fagan \u201909, for a talk on his new book, The Thinkers (Oxford 2024), analyzing the rise of partisan think tanks and their impact on polarization in American politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14058,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions\/14058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}