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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 21h
University of Pretoria was fantastic, will have to spend more than 40 hours there next time
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, after the first debate he is no longer a stranger, so the author of Talking to Strangers is no longer virtuous for speaking with him
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oooooh, that's good
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have an r&r book manuscript that writes something of an intellectual history of civil war and sovereignty in Sudan, if you are interested
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unfun fact: fraternities were in a death spiral in the 70s, this movie got made to make fun of them...and wound up supercharging interest in Greek life, with people wanting this as their experience
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazing to me that MTV Movie Awards nominated it for "Best Kiss," and the filmmakers had to shame them into retracting the nomination
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Arash Abizadeh (McGill) at least used to have a page on his website that listed the journals dates of rejection, and whether it was a desk rejection versus reviewer rejection, for all the articles that are now published
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And AI slop does the same thing to your brain as a pan-galactic gargleblaster
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is an implicit argument about this in the choice of jacket photo for Raymond Geuss' book, Philosophy and Real Politics
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And this is the sort of thing Elon would declare "woke AI" and force programmers to push the opposite recommendation
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The anthropology of right-wing political theory communities is pretty fascinating (and often dreadful). I was mistaken for a fellow traveler before I left Chicago and was invited to join unlisted reading groups with a sympathetic professor in the evenings
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On to #APSA2026
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Classical education" = "you will never have to read Toni Morrison"
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This was really bad in Holyoke for generations (the Irish and Poles in the hills against the Puerto Ricans in the flats), but then the same playbook got used by Puerto Rican candidates against candidates who were deemed "gentrifiers" in the 2010s
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So I took a big chance At the APSA dance With an author who was ready to 'splain (?)
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yes, that shirt seems to have yellowed with age
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Gearing up for #APSA2026
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To add to Pitchbot's series on Maureen Dowd -- "Trump was No Esther at Tehran Takedown"
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Got any recs for other sites? I do higheredjobs and politicalsciencejobs, and have basically given up on Chronicle
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Did we find a missing extra Persian Letter from the Montesquieu archive?
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My guess is that many see this as analogous to search, so the yahoo v. google battle is playing over and over in their minds
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Also, the difference between some person with "leftist" in their bio and 48 followers versus heads of major party-aligned institutions should not be ignored
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Literally" "tons" Really Neera? Thousands of pounds of leftists?
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
But members of that professional caste usually only entertain criticism in their professional language
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I called the global version of this "tragic structuralism" -- if we lionize resistance above all else, then failure is foredained by structural forces.
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Think of it as analogous to Dershowitz's claim that Jewish Studies in universities is full of Jew hatred. Lots of people support religious studies, amd think colleges corrupt religion.
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I worry that legalizing DTC will wind up being the equivalent of abolishing the Iraqi Army
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Season 5 is the antidote to The West Wing. Tommy Carcetti absolutely begins like an Aaron Sorkin character...but season 5 puts a knife through those narratives
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Season 5 is so damn good, if only for Rawls' "road to Damascus" scene. Oh that was pitch perfect writing
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Please, "Old John" is tge preferred nomenclature
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"as you claim to be a Professor of Political Theory" I don't know if you appreciate how funny this comment is
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Battery and murder of gay men by straight men was routinely justified as "you don't hit on straight people"!
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
People even often find a way of saying that it was partly (or maybe mostly) her fault!
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"You'll take your Cuomo and you'll like it! Wait wait, where are you going???"
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
...and the idiot in question should be shunned. But there was also a lot of violence against Hispanics that somehow got handwaved away. Again, I was lucky, but i saw the attitudes in action
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I mean, we can go a lot deeper, but i figured I should limit to firsthand experience. I was lucky. There was also a lot of violence as well that got shrugged off or explained away, especially against migrant labor and kids who didn't "pass" as white like me. The CO case is egregious... (cont'd)
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Like, I distinctly remember school officials being openly racist to my Mexican-American dad, then lots of my liberal and left friends insisting it couldn't have happened, or we had misunderstood what the officials were saying...
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
As someone who grew up Hispanic in liberal/left California....yeah, lots of liberals and leftists do it to Hispanics as well
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
You are on the front table at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, I will snap a Pic next time I am there
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Well said...
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Have you tried cooking the pizza in cast iron pans in your oven? That was a game changer for me
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A more detailed version if the TOC of my book manuscript, currently under review
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Someone was saying a specific Rhodesian bush camo style
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Back in 2006, I used to joke that every candidate recruited by Rahm had the same slogan; "I'm a woman, I'm a veteran, I'm a small business owner, and gay marriage scares me"
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Worried about this in the social sciences, too -- though it seems most people are landing first TT jobs afters years of bouncing between postdoc and VAP, so hoping the "degree expiration date" isn't as much of a thing for us
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Tyler is just opening himself up to ridicule from people who drink Hamm's
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
OH NY GOD!!!
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Their job site is such a mess, it's infuriating. Do you check higheredjobs? I find them much better
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gabrielmares.bsky.social @gabrielmares.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Seeing this sudden distinction between "Jewish pedigree/heritage" and "Jewish" with Polanski in the UK as well.
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