I'm thinking it's time to reconsider "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" as a proper basis for a system of government. It can't possibly be worse than whatever this is

#Precarity looming large 5 years on from #COVID-19: @azmanova.bsky.social via @iwm.at at reflects on power of #BigPharma to refuse public-private initiative – competitiveness ‘killed off … necessary policy’. www.eurozine.com/capitalisms-...

I don't log onto Twitter/X very much any more, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that The Syllabus (@the-syllabus.bsky.social) had named my recent piece their "article of the week" back in January! (Article here: buff.ly/40igRlJ)

I can get behind this

They want neofeudalism, putting the lord in edgelord.

Nothing political to quip about today, so here's a picture of our dog

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion. But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."

The US today is essentially ruled by a triumvirate, with JD Vance in the role of Lepidus

A friend asked me whether I thought the current regime were better described as a “broligarchy” or a “pricktatorship”

This passage from the text I'll be teaching today seems a bit on the nose

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

A short summary of my forthcoming article 'Alienation, equality and multifaith establishment' has just been uploaded at the AJPS blog, where you can also find a link to the open access version of the full paper:

I mean, evicting people of color to make way for gaudy real estate projects has pretty much always been Trump's thing, no?

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

Meanwhile, bullying and sexually harassing school kids is now federal government policy

My new article: "A postcosmopolitan condition? Economic progressivism and the return of great power war," out now at Philosophy & Social Criticism. It defends cosmopolitanism from left statism by critiquing the assumption that a Westphalian system is less friendly to capital than a globalized one.