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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Well this didn't take long. The chancellors who commissioned the Boghossian report (Martin and Diermeier, along with others) are publicly teaming up with the Trump administration to violate academic freedom and faculty autonomy, prominently citing the report in support of their campaign.

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The Trump collaborators: Michael Crow (Arizona State), Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins), Douglas Girod (Kansas), Andrew Martin (Wash U/St. Louis)

These four university President have participated in drafting a new “call to action” from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive turned Secretary of Education, to the nation&#821…

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I tried to write some replies here but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

He is understanding 'duties are dischargeable' in the sense that a debt can be paid off, and then you are 'quits' as far as the debt is concerned. But he wants something different from the idea of 'acknowledgement', something that is not dischargeable like that.

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It is indeed a puzzling part of the book. Starting out with his tying his idea of 'acknowledgement' to the more Kantian idea of 'duties toward others'. Combined with his insistence that "duties are dischargeable". It's an unstable combination, which is what I think he is getting at here.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Much noise that political philosophy not equipped for realities of oligarchic rule (too utopian, aspirational etc). But don't forget (cf Tocqueville) that bones of liberal and republican thought were all sketched out under Ancien Regime conditions. All seemed hopelessly utopian until they weren't

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Around the neighborhood this morning.

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A Harvard undergraduate outlines some of the things wrong with the recent speech codes imposed on the University. That campus-wide speech codes could be imposed as part of settling a civil lawsuit is outrageous enough. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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All It Takes To Censor Speech at Harvard Is a Lawsuit | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Most worryingly, with this move, Harvard has signaled that upset constituents — and outside groups backing them — can bring thinly-supported, mostly-anonymous legal complaints against the University t...

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Wow, so very cool! Congratulations!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

College freshmen saying "from the river to the sea" is an existential threat to Jewish people. America's shadow president giving Nazi salutes at a rally is not. by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman

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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

big victory for Indigenous activists

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Dr. King saw that Du Bois “did not content himself with hurling invectives for emotional release & then retire into smug, passive satisfaction.” “It is not enough for people to be angry,” he argued; “the supreme task is to organize & unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”