(This blog post will probably be interesting to the handful of political scientists who read this blog. Everybody else be patient. I feel a rant coming on.)

Both Duck of Minerva and the Monkey Cage have discussed the move by Western Lutheran College to dissolve their political science department. In tough economic times, political science has been determined to be an expensive frill. A spokesperson for the college said, "the college determined it wasn't necessary to its liberal arts mission to offer political science."

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