Few Harvard professors have been as outspoken against the Trump Administration’s attack against their University as he has: Ryan Enos has spoken at rallies, given interviews, and written in defense of academic freedom. This isn’t a new quest for him, as he was critical of Harvard’s leadership in the wake of October 7. We take Professor Enos’s attendance of the St.Gallen Symposium as an opportunity to discuss the state of the union, and of the Democratic Party in particular.

Professor Enos’ research is situated at the intersection of psychology, geography, and politics in the United States and other countries. He is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), Working Group on Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPop), and the Harvard Digital Lab for the Social Sciences (DLABSS). Before joining Harvard University, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His first book, The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics (2017), won the American Political Science Association Experimental Research Section Best Book Award.

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