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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Bari Weiss's fake university comes out against the plain reading of the text of the constitution uatx.substack.com/p/is-birthri...

Is Birthright Citizenship Constitutionally Guaranteed?

“A first read of the opening line of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution may sound as if it endorses universal birthright citizenship, until we read the limiting clause and consider what it means,” Marietta explains.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

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Lecturer in Political Theory

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Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The deadline for APT proposals is coming up this Friday! #poltheory

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I wrote about some recent trends in the law of nations literature and international political thought for History of Euro Ideas, check it out here >> doi.org/10.1080/0191... (msg me for a copy)

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The law of nations in international political thought

This review considers what role scholarship on the early modern law of nations (ius gentium) plays in the history of international political thought, which over the last decade has expanded far bey...

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Me getting that email from the Chronicle this morning about a useless tool that nobody wants

Miyazaki telling it how it is about ‘AI’

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Interesting time for universities like mine to proudly declare their political neutrality. As the saying goes, you can pretend not to care about politics, but politics certainly cares about you. Now more than ever, universities need backbone—and leaders willing to stand up for them.

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William Paris @williammparis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Comes out this Tuesday! Check it out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

this is severe, untreatable, terminal lawyer brain. so many legal academics act like the constitution is not a vessel intended to secure actual human rights and dignity, but a mere matter of intellectual curiosity, meant to be batted around like a cat with a toy

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A version of this happens on the academic job market where everyone - even people with wildly impressive publication records - has a hard time. DEI isn't keeping you from getting a tenure track job; a lack of jobs is keeping you from getting a tenure track job.

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A reminder that the Association for Political Theory conference will be held at Loyola in Chicago this year. Encouraging Chicago-curious theorists to apply! Applications due February 21. associationforpoliticaltheory.org

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Hours after Musk said 'only the AfD can save Germany', one of their supporters carried out a terrorist attack www.ft.com/content/5e2f...

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Sid Simpson @sidsimpson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My latest in Philosophy & Social Criticism! "Dancing in the streets: Rousseau, the genealogy of vice, and the practice of freedom" Check it out here: sidsimpson.com/wp-content/u...

A journal article abstract that reads: Only recently has Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality begun to be read as a genealogy rather than a variation on the social contract tradition. This article argues that reading Rousseau as a genealogist not only clarifies his analysis of amour-propre’s inflammation, but also illuminates a conception of freedom achieved through the continuous political practice of shaping of amour-propre. In the first section of this article, I situate this conception of freedom against two separate but relevant bodies of Rousseau scholarship: those who read him as a genealogist, and those who emphasize the ambiguities of amour-propre. Next, I look to The Social Contract’s passages on censorship and court of honor in order to evaluate their roles as institutions that forestall the inflammation of amour-propre. Finally, I examine the social institutions that citizens actively participate in as they practice their freedom: the festivals, dances, balls and games described in The Letter to D’Alembert and Considerations on the Government of Poland. It is in these institutions that we see the political implications of Rousseau’s genealogical system manifest: because his genealogy illuminates the human tendency toward vice, the cultivation of virtuous citizenship appears as a constant struggle rather than an idealist achievement.

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Very nice post-doc at Yale in Directed Studies, which (among other things) completely changed my dissertation supervisor's life and instilled him with a passion for all things philosophical and literary. apply.interfolio.com/158738

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fittingly massive volume. 50 essays. And “Du Bois’ last message,” which, strangely, I had not seen before.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Universities are now in a semi-permanent reactive position, forced to satisfy contradictory demands: Why don’t you allow free speech? Why don’t you punish X kind of speech? Why do you teach X? Why don’t you teach Y? Why don’t you offer X programs? Why haven’t you eliminate Y programs? 1/2

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024

Landback is about governance and stewardship, not European and capitalist notions of ownership. Comparing it to Naziism is the height of settler anxiety, propaganda, and bullshit. Nobody wants to sink to your level guys. Stop projecting.

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a decent article from the dreaded noah on how a blut und boden nationalism has come to cloak itself in the language of "decolonization" and
"indigenous land"
www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are…
No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
www.noahpinion.blog

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Journalists should have used the increasingly dubious quality of polls as an excuse to spend this election talking about actual issues but instead they doubled down on the horse race

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

I remember sometime in grad school reading that Bezos made all his managers read “Remains of the Day” to teach them the importance of the pursuit of excellence. Missing the point of course that Stevens’ obsession with being the perfect butler ruins his life.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

This fucking shit is coming to a campus near you. My deep deep sympathies to my colleagues at UConn. I wish you much energy for organizing.

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Job! 2 year postdoc, University of Vermont, Political Theory #poltheory, #PSJMInfo Looking for a candidate whose work addresses "themes of inequality and/or exclusion, in either a domestic or global context ... very broadly [defined]." uvmd10.drup2.uvm.edu/d10-files/do...

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

go.bsky.app/7FUfDKQ

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Job! (#poltheory) Hunter College, tenure-track, assistant professor position in political theory, beginning Fall 2025, pending final college approval. Candidates whose research addresses race, empire, colonialism, ecology, technology, or indigeneity will be preferred.

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Employment – The City University of New York

25 Colleges. One University.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.

What Is Fascism?
The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Georgetown is hiring in Political Theory (American Political Thought). Please circulate widely to anyone you know who might be interested, and feel free to reach out to me with questions, suggestions, etc. apply.interfolio.com/154947

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Kamala’s outreach to moderates has been so successful that every would be Trump assassin is a Republican

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

"She has not proposed to seize the means of production." NYT fact check has now converted me into a single issue voter

screen shot of NYT: "She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist. - Former President Donald J. Trump"

NYT Response:
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Marxism refers to the political, social, and economics theories of Karl Marx, practiced as socialism or communism. Ms. Harris's campaign has described her as a capitalist. She has not proposed to seize the means of production. And she has received the backing of more than 80 chief executives, some of whom have called her "pro-business." "

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

I'd add: -Electoral College abolition is the single most common aim of constitutional amendments in US history, with at least 800 proposals since 1800.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

What are some of your favorite new articles in environmental political theory? I’m making last minute decisions for new readings.

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

#poltheory #psjminfo Job! Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University (no longer The Johns Hopkins University): apply.interfolio.com/153005

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