Subject: The Review: The Politics of Political Science On January 7, the American Political Science Association released a “Statement on the Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol” that many of its members considered mealy mouthed and insufficiently condemnatory of the Republican Party. (What particularly rankled was APSA’s insistence that “both sides” need “to do better.”) Four days later, APSA released an “expanded” statement apologizing for the lack of fire in their original, and dutifully supplying the litany of evils they’d failed to mention the first time: “xenophobia, white supremacy, white nationalism, right-wing extremism, and racism.” As our Tom Bartlett notes, “there seemed to be general agreement that the second statement was, if not perfect or comprehensive, at least better.”