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In Donald Trump’s America, political science departments are so beside themselves about what’s happening that they aren’t even pretending they’re relevant anymore. At the 2017 meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, the theme is “The Quest for Legitimacy.” Perusing APSA’s 427-page, phone-book-sized program, though, one gets the impression that it’s less a quest than a saunter with an indeterminate destination.

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