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.

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

We're hiring a Fellow in Political Theory! @lsegovernment.bsky.social : jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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-...

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

As. If. This. Weren't. The. Plan. All. Along.

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)

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

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.

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

I'd love to know the answer. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

"…the fear of offending students, faculty, and, especially, lawmakers and donors has led many academic leaders to retreat from the public sphere. This is exactly the wrong time for such a retreat." slate.com/life/2024/10...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

California bans legacy admissions at all colleges

#PolTheory #polisky

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

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

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

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.

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

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