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Rebecca Kingston

@rkingston.bsky.social
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Political Theorist. Author of Plutarch's Prism (CUP, 2022). History of ideas and moral psychology. Tennis fanatic.

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Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tenure-track Political Theory job at JMU in Harrisonburg, VA. Posting to signal boost! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/assista... #poltheory #polphil #academicjobmarket
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Assistant Professor- Political Science (Political Theory) - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Working Title: Assistant Professor- Political Science (Political Theory) State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligi...
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fun to see the local tradition dating from the revolution raising Le Mai in honour of the re-elected village mayor and new councillors. Public spiritedness for sure, but not sure what that means for next May...
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
An Illuminati membership invitation by email?! Really? Do they even know how ironic that is?!
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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So grim, for these colleagues, for the ecology of education in the region and at this institution. And apparently with no transparency about the basis for the decision.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psr...
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Speechless: The New Campus Revolution | Part I
YouTube video by CBC Docs
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Perhaps this is the place for a preliminary shout out for this, especially for those interested in introducing Plutarch to their students. Available in August 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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Plutarch: Selected Political Writings
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Plutarch: Selected Political Writings
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
There is a good deal to mine in Plutarch reception. Schliesser suggests that we need to approach the analysis of the reception of some of his writings differently, depending on their genre or form. With such a large opus, it is not always clear what Plutarch was doing in each work.
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Plutarch: Selected Political Writings
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Plutarch: Selected Political Writings
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Now out in OA: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Nineteenth-century painting by Philipp Foltz depicting the Athenian politician Pericles delivering his famous funeral oration in front of the Assembly.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Ontario groundhog (Wiarton Willy) has died. Six more years of winter?
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Orange alert- actually it has been a while now... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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GTA under orange alert as snow hits Ontario and Eastern Canada
Orange alerts warn of severe weather likely to result in significant damage, disruption or health impacts
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Not so faithful I would suggest. The doctor never meant for his creature to be immortal for one...
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Canadian government now seeking to cut international student visas from a target of 305,900 a year (already lowered from before) to 155,000 in 2026 and dropping further in 2027 and 2028. Yet they also want to attract foreign talent. Why deny these students a good education? Where can they go?
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Afghanistan hit by communications blackout after Taliban shuts internet
Telecoms disrupted nationwide after authorities cut fibre optic connections in several provinces to prevent ‘vice’
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Now why can't Elon Musk use his brains and technology for some good in the world now? (ok, I know the answer) Starlink would be a great solution here....https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/afghanistan-communications-blackout-taliban-shuts-internet
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
'tough it out'? Yeah, right....
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
As long as we are talking about Afghanistan...
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Afghanistan: What's at stake as Taliban cut internet? – DW – 09/18/2025
The Taliban have shut down fiber-optic internet across several Afghan provinces to "prevent immorality." Experts warn of serious consequences for trade and girls' access to education.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Amazingly enough I am on this list *multiple times* because of scholarly articles I coauthored. You should really check and see if you’re on it too.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When I teach about Atlantic Slavery one of the key things I try to communicate is that it was a *resisted condition*. People were bound in servitude *by force* because only force could hold them to it. Their resistances forged entire cultures.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is helpful framing and might be relevant to those currently drafting syllabi, i.e. suggesting student use of AI to write papers amounts to 'deskilling'. If I taught in a different field I might ask students to draft their c.v. but stressing the number of skills they had lost recently.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
My book 'Plutarch's Prism' is reviewed by Katherine East in Vol. 45, no. 4, 2024 of 'History of Political Thought' journal. Nice review!
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
These are great suggestions!
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
how sinister....can we turn back time and send him to Philosophy 101?
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Some limited highlights from a recent fabulous rafting trip on the Nahanni River NWT. Should be on everyone's bucket list. #nahanni.com
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
So secret even he himself does not know it.... NYT "Trump Says ‘Nobody Knows’ His Plans on Iran"
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Bear, dall sheep with babies, moose and bison (latter pics not included) #nahanni.com
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Some limited highlights from a recent fabulous rafting trip on the Nahanni River NWT. Should be on everyone's bucket list. #nahanni.com
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Wow, yes. An amazing glimpse of the LLM Lie Machine at work. Anyone whose students are bring tempted by LLMs, sharing this could be very helpful showing how it lies, and how it fails.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
six months open mayonnaise in the pantry?! no thanks!
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Congrats to Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social‬ on winning the 2024 David and Elaine Spitz Prize from the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Currency of Politics
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
First line of an exam answer that you know will not go well: "This quotation is from Hegel's 'The Element of Right'."
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I don't think I have ever heard anything so contemptible of humanity...
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
PM Carney in his winning election speech heralds the values of humility, ambition and unity.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I thought all truckers spoke Convoy...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Wondering if Rousseauian freedom lasts the full 12 or so hours of the voting day (15 if taken through all time zones) or merely the 2-3 minutes one stands in the voting booth...Hard to say by just a phenomenological description of my own experience...
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I know that this is the least of our concerns. But the failure of political science to in any way anticipate the breakdown of democracy in the United States is truly astounding.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
4/7 Now reviews! We begin with an article by Charles C. H. Lee (Academia Sinica, Taipei), "Towards a Universal History of Democracy", on the six-volume "A Cultural History of Democracy" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, 2021) edited by Eugenio F. Biagini (et. al.) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A photo of the six volumes of the book
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.cp24.com/politics/202...
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Canada buying American billboards in anti-tariff ad campaign
Canada will erect a series of 'huge billboards' along highways in the U.S. as part of a campaign to sow public discontent with American tariffs, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly told CNN Friday.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
surprisingly timely!
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Time to info ourselves about how best to protect our personal data when travelling....especially those in university circles...
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
un chercheur du CNRS dans le domaine spatial en route pour un colloque à Houston a été refoulé par les autorités américaines et son matériel informatique confisqué, parce que des propos critiques envers Trump ont été retrouvés dans son téléphone et son ordinateur www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
capture d'écran d'un article paru dans Le Monde, dont le lien figure dans ce tweet, et qui décrit comment le matériel informatique de ce chercheur a été confisqué
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Blue sky is anything but these days...Call it the new Emergency Alert System...Not that I'm complaining. Essential to be informed in this climate.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you missed it live, you can now catch my in-depth conversation with @preetbharara.bsky.social about The Presidents and The People and the urgent challenges facing democracy today. Grateful to Preet for his insightful reading of the book and a truly engaging discussion. cafe.com/stay-tuned/h...
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How Patriots Fight Back Against Presidents (with Corey Brettschneider) - CAFE
American democracy has never been a given—it has been tested, strained, and at times, nearly broken. Some of the greatest threats have come not from foreign adversaries but from within—from presidents...
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What to understand about our patrimonial president. New rules of the game.My latest co-authored piece. www.persuasion.community/p/sins-of-th...
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Sins of the Father
The United States is joining the ranks of patrimonial states. It’s nothing short of a revolution.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 05/03/2025
Our front page today. Happy 181st birthday to Canada's national newspaper.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Always will be.
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Marty Kaufman @marty-k.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Hey, Kara Swisher is trying to put a group together to buy the Washington Post! Cancel your subscriptions now and burn a hole in Jeff Bozo's pocket!! Maybe we can get advertisers to boycott as well.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"However and by whomever this was organized, the intention of these appointments is clear: to create American horror." Reposting "Decapitation Strike" from November because that is indeed what these cabinet members represent. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
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Decapitation Strike
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments
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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We're hiring a Fellow in Political Theory! @lsegovernment.bsky.social : jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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LSE Fellow Political Theory
LSE Fellow Political Theory, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">...
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