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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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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 11h
I don't even like to open my inbox these days given the frequency with which these are appearing...
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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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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hurricane in Hertfordshire....
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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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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Mithridates....Maybe worth a short article for a comparison?
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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 · 25/02/2026
I am glad not to be an Americanist this evening...
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
steamengine...
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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 · 29/12/2025
33.95?!
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
And tell me why do they need name tags in a Cabinet meeting in the first place?
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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 · 23/10/2025
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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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
www.dw.com/en/afghanist...
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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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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A good corollary to this point is the reading of Marjorie Kars' book. It documents an earlier slave revolt in Guyana (presumably the first in the new world) far away from any Enlightenment influences given the remoteness of the area www.npr.org/2020/08/12/9....
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In 'Blood On The River,' The Berbice Rebellion Foreshadows Later Insurgencies
Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.
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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 · 28/08/2025
I am considering requiring a modern day equivalent of common place books where students have to physically write down passages from the texts studied. There is an interesting set of options here: against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
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Assignment Ideas - AGAINST AI
Image: The Shipwreck, J.M.W. Turner
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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 · 17/08/2025
Yes, except that some of the brightest British scholars in the past only needed an undergraduate first to prove their worth. Graduate degrees were for those across the pond.
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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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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is not actually how old fashioned monarchy worked. Montesquieu told us that...
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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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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had a Ulysses joke, but it fell on deaf ears.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Yes, it is a very strange interview. If 'helping Youngstown' is at the root of the motivation, it is not at all clear how these initiatives do that. The reporter was not thoughtful enough.
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Bradford PA!
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