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Alani Golanski

@alanigolanski.bsky.social
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Philosophy @ Graduate Center CUNY, James Kent Scholar @ ColumbiaLaw, Ghanaian drumming @ CalArts -- Partner/Director @ Weitz & Luxenberg

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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 14h
"As legal-ethics experts have confirmed, ​our ⁠judges were acting well within the ethical rules that apply to federal judges in advocating for the rule of law and ​judicial independence." www.reuters.com/business/med...
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US Justice Department files complaint against Minnesota judges who gave interviews about immigration surge
The US Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint on Wednesday ​against judges in Minnesota who gave interviews to the New York Times about ‌the immigration surge there, alleging it was ...
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 20h
Even if you must have regard to wealth, yet it is surely a bad thing that great offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than excellence, and the whole state becomes avaricious. -- Aristotle
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Those who assert that law and politics are practical engagements which can be understood without regard to ideological frameworks are almost certainly ruled unconsciously by the thoughts of others. -- Martin Loughlin
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have been reading Hart's The Concept of Law for over forty years, each time I have discovered some new and profound insight in his deceptively pellucid prose, and my arguments are largely prompted by an engagement over these years with his legal theory. -- David Dyzenhaus
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The administration correctly prognosticated that the worst of the worst would be involved in these actions
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Force for world peace and the rule of international morality
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can't not try this, right? If it's good, or maybe if it's not good, I will market a beer involving Joni Mitchell
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This new volume offers Bernard Williams as a philosopher whose ideas have been lamentably underexplored in legal theory notwithstanding his major influence on moral and political philosophy.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Theodor Adorno likened Kant's deduction of the pure concepts of understanding to the main character in this work by Ludwig Thoma, an unwelcome guest in his relatives' home who keeps on insisting that everything must be identified in its proper "category."
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seyla Benhabib explained if parties reach a consensus under conditions in which they don't have equal rights to initiate debate or challenge justifications, the consensus is prima facie neither genuine nor rational, i.e., not motivated by the force of the better argument alone.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Intent on writing a book on freedom, Lon Fuller was waylaid by the academic community's interest in his 1958 exchange with HLA Hart, hence detoured into developing those views via his 1963 Storrs jurisprudence lectures at Yale, in turn culminating in The Morality of Law.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fierce Brooklyn sky says to Nor'easter, come and get it
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wonderful! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/a...
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At 98, the Composer Thea Musgrave Is Still Learning
Musgrave, whose 1977 opera “Mary, Queen of Scots” is opening at the San Francisco Opera, has spent a long career searching for the “dramatic abstract.”
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Writing The German Ideology
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Born OTD John Coltrane
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amartya Sen emphasized that, while pervasive diversity engenders a range of egalitarian theories, even anti-egalitarian views coincide with an endorsement of some form of equality, bc ethical plausibility is hard to achieve absent an equality in some variable shared by everyone.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At local meetings in Mqhekezweni, everyone who wanted to speak did so. It was democracy in its purest form. There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard, chief and subject, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and laborer. -- Nelson Mandela
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it the essence of truth to be impotent and of the essence of power to be deceitful? -- Hannah Arendt
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives reading the Hobo News Review in 1940, a paper that peaked at 100,000 readers during WW II.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The point is to write clearly the first time, to revise in the mind, with the attention so clearly focused it doesn’t require much tinkering." --Allen Ginsberg (1977) (applicable for Howl eg, perhaps not The Separation-of-Powers Counterrevolution)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Michael Sandel presenting portions of his intriguing new volume, Renewal: How to Heal A Divided Country, at last evening's NYU Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy, with Liam Murphy and Tom Nagel in view.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One debate that's been playing out in left legal literature is that between critical legal studies revival (eg Moyn) and a more historically rooted dialectical base-superstructure theorizing (eg Kessler).
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This new journal sets out to apply critical theory to AI, of interest! Vol 1, Issue 1 is accessible in full via this link: aisocietycritique.org/wp-content/u...
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scary www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From what's described as perhaps the single most famous letter from the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli conveys to his friend Francesco Vettori (1513) the ecstasy of being able to hang out and read in the evening.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For a compelling approach synthesizing western philosophical elements with Taoist sensibilities, see Jin Yuelin (1895-1984), also a friend of Frank Ramsey's during a period at Cambridge.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolutely, because who's ever heard of the EPA being a regulatory agency
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the wake of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination in employment and public accommodations on the basis of "race, color, religion, or national origin," the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 eliminated national origin quotas in the US immigration system.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump upbraids Irish President Catherine Connolly over 1845-1852 Irish potato famine's impact on US grocery prices
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
William G. Anderson led the Albany (Georgia) Movement, coming between the Montgomery bus boycott (1955-56) and the 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign, and later became Detroit's first Black surgical resident in osteopathic medicine. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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William Anderson, Doctor and Civil Rights Leader in Georgia, Dies at 98
An osteopath in Albany, Ga., he drew national attention, and the involvement of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for his efforts to end segregation.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The monstrous concession made at the formation of the Constitution has blocked the civilization and humanity of the times up to this day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1861)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The philosopher Richard Bernstein @TheNewSchool.bsky.social has admirably written, "no single orientation or style of thinking has an exclusive possession of philosophic insight," and one's own philosophic claims are enriched and strengthened via "the practice of engaged fallibilistic pluralism."
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 1953 Willem de Kooning allowed Robert Rauschenberg to create this piece, "Erased de Kooning Drawing."
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Barbara Sukowa portrayed both Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Hannah Arendt (2012)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
".. we're genuinely watching his brain rot in real time"
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For Kelsen, law's formal and substantive norms are unified and subject to official interpretation, such that the creative, interpretive aspects of legislation and adjudication differ as a matter of degree rather than qualitatively.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something other than a commitment to democracy is at play in all of this
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Only if the purpose of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules, no matter what their content, were itself an ultimate value, would there be any case for classifying the principles of rule-making as a morality. -- HLA Hart contra Fuller
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
HLA Hart objected that Fuller's labeling his formal principles of good legal craftsmanship as an "inner morality" "perpetuates a confusion between two notions that it is vital to hold apart: the notions of purposive activity and morality." 78 Harv L Rev 1281 (1965)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In this imaginative, original, and thought-provoking book richly-stocked with a variety of themes, it is difficult amid the author's firm and clear assertions of what is right and wrong in jurisprudence to identify an equally firm and clear supporting argument. -- HLA Hart (1965)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In this intriguing academic detective story (starring non-actor Prof Anne Laure Sellier), we hear from such notables as WVO Quine, objecting to the mind-body distinction, and Richard Rorty, on the consequences of rejecting both the analytic/synthetic distinction and the myth of the given.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Walter Benjamin & (reportedly) Alice Croner (1921)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank God these sorts of proto-fascist platforms will never gain traction in the USA
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There are frequent challenges to the Constitution by the administration, with the consequential loss of confidence in constitutional processes by the people, and among some sections of the population the more radical unwillingness to recognize the consensus universalis. -- Hannah Arendt (1972)
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Let's dance
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Degenerate art www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a...
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Kennedy Center Removes ‘Blue’ Sculpture That Was an Artist’s Gift
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Calling herself 'an entrepreneur of social change,' Ms. Steinem helped usher in sweeping cultural transformations across virtually every facet of American life, from the boardroom to the courtroom to the bedroom." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When in 1700 William Penn ordered a shipment of 125 titles from London booksellers Awnsham and Churchill for sale in Pennsylvania, nearly a quarter of those books had been written by John Locke.
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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Julia Kristeva on Hannah Arendt's participatory conception of political freedom.
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