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James Lindley Wilson

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Political Science prof at University of Chicago. Democratic theory, egalitarianism, global justice. Will hammer like button on any dog pics.

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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 1h
I am once again asking if we actually have an institutional neutrality policy or if it’s just an excuse to shut down speech the admin doesn’t like.
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics building, with a banner very neutrally exhorting “Democracy: verb: Get Involved.”
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Julie Rose is rightly listed as the sole handling editor, since she did 99% of the work. But this is the first APSR piece to which I contributed a smidge of editorial guidance. It's really interesting, and I encourage you to check it out!
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New article just dropped in APSR! Leah Downey and yours truly on why people should stop using “democratize” when all they really mean is increasing market access. (Looking at you, economists! 👀) And, more positively, what a better vision of “democratization” looks like when applied to finance.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New from @maschwar.bsky.social Melissa Schwartzberg, in response to Danielle Allen's repeated serious misreading of the moment and of the Trump administration's bad faith with respect to higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/dani...
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Danielle Allen Is Wrong About Trump
Dealmaking under duress is always undemocratic.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely not overreacting to polling numbers.
The X-Files "I Want to Believe" poster, but with a map of Kansas, all blue, in place of the UFO.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm sure Tolkien is the direct influence on Beagle, but Tolkien was probably influenced in turn by E.R. Eddison, whose "The Worm Ouroboros" is one of the most extraordinary pieces of writing I've ever encountered.
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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The University of Chicago is searching for an Assistant Professor of Political Science, from any subfield, who works on climate politics! Job ad here:
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
[turns chair backwards, sits down]: Hey, kids! let's rap about the INJUSTICE of POVERTY and the nature of a GOOD SOCIETY! (two minutes later): Having distinguished strong from weak equalisandum claims, let us define a capability as a set of achievable functionings, or states of being or doing.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My constructivist test of the Englishness of a footballer is: would the Scots take special delight in beating them? And I'm confident the answer is "yes" for every current player, men's and women's.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Political theorists, philosophers, lawyers: Join us at the annual NOMOS conference for an amazing line-up of presenters on "Free Speech and Its Critics," Sept. 25. Physically at the University of Virginia, but you can also attend online! And it's free to register! More here: political-theory.org
Poster for the NOMOS "Free Speech and Its Critics" conference, Sept. 25, 2026. All these details are reproduced on our webpage, linked in the post.
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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In my capacity as secretary-treasurer of NOMOS: The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, I'm happy to announce our upcoming conference. This is a hybrid event, and you can register here: www.political-theory.org/event-657172...
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Allen Wood’s response to Parfitian method in moral philosophy:
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I grew up near Peekskill. I once had as my tennis doubles partner a guy who had spent the night of Aug 27-28, 1949, armed with a baseball bat, protecting Robeson from local fascist goons. Total mensch. (Good tennis player for a septuagenarian, too.)
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Even his goal today was straight at the keeper!
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I left Facebook for this reason, and you can, too!
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Someone needs to tell Moore to kick *away* from the keeper.
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a chilling, if not surprising story. It’s a thorough and systematic effort figure out whether there’s any there there, any at all, behind one of the administration’s most terrifying displays of force during the past year. Nope. None.
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢 LSE Political Theory job opening We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level Reach out with questions & please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory
Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory, , <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</p> <p style="margin:...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t have anything insightful to say about the Arday case beyond this: we assign some cases to have profound symbolic meaning. But which cases we assign meaning is a choice. Firing of faculty in the US for wrongthink now is routine but does not shape the discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
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Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Imagine being the president of university when the Trump administration detains one of your researchers for a made-up immigration violation. What would you do? If you answered "collaborate with the administration," congratulations, you could be president of Johns Hopkins University!
cbsnews.com
Johns Hopkins public health researcher had valid work authorization when detained by ICE, attorney says
A Johns Hopkins University public health researcher who federal immigration officers detained on July 28 has valid work authorization, her attorney said.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
After 20 years of legal practice while watching increase Republican lawlessness, my view is less abstract legal theorizing and more carving into a rock "if a proſecutour bringeth a cauſe without merit, then ſhall he ſerue the ſelfe-ſame ſentence which he ſought for the falſely accuſed."
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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Philosophers, spread the word! The next Special Issue of The Philosophical Quarterly will be 'Philosophy and Climate Change' - Guest Editor Stephen Gardiner, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Plato be like:
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
From our FirstView: The Expressive Duty to Vote by CÉCILE FABRE. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Good thread on intra-Democratic politics
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Can’t blame Simeone, he only uses his foot to kick people
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Iniesta looking on like why are you guys rushing the goal?
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
De Ketelaere feeling like an absolute legend for being the only guy to score against Spain in this tournament.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You may not like it—and if my feed is any indication, you don’t—but ninety minutes of scorelessness is what peak Spanish performance looks like.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Racist-chant enjoyer Enzo Fernandez decides it's time to complain about the refereeing.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spain averaging one goal every three hours in World Cup finals.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is probably what the France-Spain game would have looked like if France hadn’t given away the silly penalty.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I know a Watergate a day etc. etc., but there's no excuse for Trump inviting the Tates into the country and attempting to shield them from accountability not being a 5-alarm scandal
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For about the twentieth time this World Cup, Fox announcers refer vaguely to "world events" affecting football, desperate to avoid saying "the U.S. attacked Iran."
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spain needs to figure out some words for its national anthem. Their fans have nothing to sing!
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Michael Bay’s “Swann’s Way”
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fellow upper midwesterners, I strongly advise wearing an N95 mask if you have to be outside.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm not that fussed about the Argentinian team having a "Malvinas belongs to Argentina" banner on the field after the game, but it drives me bonkers thinking about all the Palestinian flags/banners that were kept out of stadiums to keep the football "non-political."
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Crushing but the late-game tactics basically begged for this result
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My theory of the case for England after the Croatia game. Let’s see.
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Pickford apparently a big fan of the hydration break
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As we’ve been saying, jogo bonito on full display
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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Didn’t know you were allowed to card Argentinian starters
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