Notre Dame Beyond Politics features editorial posts authored and edited by students within the Notre Dame Department of Political Science. This page features staff works written by a stable of contributing writers on staff with the Notre Dame Journal of Political Science, as well as guest submissions penned by students commenting on a relevant event or development in the general sphere of politics.
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Recent Staff Editorials
- Selective Engagement: The Optimal United States Grand Strategy | By Daniel McGuire
- A Case for Community Gardens | By Rocco Giannotti
- Disembodiment, Disillusionment, and Digital IDs: A Slippery Slope to Dystopia | By Ella Yates
- American Cold War Fears Becoming a Reality | By Chase Ouellette
- Grabbing the Third Rail: Funding the Future of Social Security | By John Majsak
- The Insatiable Passion for Equality in Tocqueville and Our Modern Melt-Down | By Catalina Scheider Galiñanes
- Surrendering to Screens and Harming Humanity: Want to live well? Start by ending reliance on ultimately destructive “technologies” | By Catalina Scheider Galiñanes
- Presentations of Womanhood:The Strategic Manipulation of Gender by Female Presidential Candidates | By Kendall Manning
- A New Antitrust Era: A Review of the FTC under Lina Khan | By John Majsak
- Europe’s Right-Wing Mirage? Populism across the Atlantic | By Nathan Desautels
- The Question Not Asked: American deterrence in Taiwan | By Liam Kelly
- Distrusting the Food We Eat | By Catalina Scheider Galiñanes
- Declaratory Policy and Nuclear Competition | By Marko Gural
- Asia’s Balancing and China’s Dilemma | By Marko Gural
- Confused American Identity, Patriotism, and Immigration | By Catalina Scheider Galiñanes
- An Epidemic of Disengagement: Gen Z and the 2024 election | By Anne Rehill
- The Unforeseen Consequences of Social Capital | By Kendall Manning
- Is This Another Munich? Analogies in International Relations | By Marko Gural
- High Voltage Diplomacy: Elon Musk’s Emergence as a National Security Threat | By Edward Nagler
- Orientation to the Political World | By Michael Donelan
- Strengthening Governance for Sustainable Space Exploration | By Anne Rehill
- Bucharest 2008: 15 Years of War | By Marko Gural







