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JP Messina

@jpmessina.bsky.social
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Associate professor of philosophy @ Purdue University. Author of Private Censorship, available here: tinyurl.com/2s889jte

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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The AAUP, echoing Mill in 1915: "the dangers connected tendency of modern democracy is for men to think alike, to feel alike, and to speak alike... Public opinion is at once the chief safeguard of a democracy, and the chief menace to the real liberty of the individual."
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features…they appear to me…frightful…among other deformities, it has an awful squinting: it squints towards monarchy…your President may easily become King.” - Patrick Henry
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
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We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/04/2025
Uh anyone have this cease and desist letter he says they sent Democrats because I have some First Amendment concerns...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It is a hostile and political act to tell costumers how much things cost
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and I are thrilled with the cover for our book, Somebody Should Do Something The release date is 9/16, but you can do preorders now mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978... #CoverReveal #Bookstagram @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social tein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Peter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@georgetownlaw.bsky.social's great dean, Bill Treanor, posted on LinkedIn a letter he co-signed with 78 law deans protesting Trump memos targeting law firms-a stronger letter than the ABA's pablum. Deans of most T10 schools are not among them, which is disappointing. www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
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Today, I joined 78 of my fellow law school deans in signing the following… | William M. Treanor | 34 comments
Today, I joined 78 of my fellow law school deans in signing the following letter, issued March 26, 2025: "As deans of law schools, we have a special… | 34 comments on LinkedIn
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is a cool thing, featuring one of my colleagues and one of our students: www.cla.purdue.edu/news/college...
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Talking life, philosophy, and basketball with Trey Kaufman-Renn and Professor Jan Cover - College of Liberal Arts - Purdue University
Purdue's College of Liberal Arts had the chance to sit down and talk with Philosophy major and Purdue star basketball player, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Professor of Philosophy Jan Cover
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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Interesting findings! In line with @danwphilosophy.bsky.social's excellent work on the marketplace of rationalizations - conspiracy theories might work to rationalize antidemocratic attitudes that are already there, and that's why people adopt them.
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
it probably doesn't need saying, but for those concerned that federal aid mostly used to address foreign health issues abroad has been cut with the dismantling of USAID, there are real ways for ordinary people to step up and fill the new gaps: www.givewell.org/charities/to...
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Deadline approaching.
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
PPEL folks: Cool conference happening in Bangalore, India. About a year from now. Consider submitting an abstract. More information here: ppel.tenureslack.com
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PPEL in the Global South – Home of the PPEL in the Global South Conference
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Purdue is hiring in PPE again! Ad: philjobs.org/job/show/27822
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Assistant Professor (PPE), Purdue University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor (PPE), Purdue University
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
@roberttalisse.bsky.social and I had a nice conversation about Private Censorship on the excellent New Books in Philosophy Podcast. You can listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/private-cens...
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J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Interested in workplace speech? Consider submitting to this special issue of Philosophy of Management, cfp here: link.springer.com/journal/4092...
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Purdue is hiring (multiple lines) in PPE: careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/2... Happy to answer any questions!
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
aristotle's alright and everything but 🤣
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JP Messina @jpmessina.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
My first book, Private Censorship, has just arrived and is also available online here: academic.oup.com/book/49409?s... Not bad for a first post.
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