Thomas B. Pepinsky Thomas B. Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He studies comparative politics and political economy with a primary specializaion in Southeast Asia. His most recent book is Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID (2022), with Shana Kushner Gadarian and Sara Wallace Goodman. Read More Read Less