Looking forward to reading this.

Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook

if they get him with milk next it's battery

Off-the-cuff Stewart is the best Stewart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmr...

Join us tomorrow!

Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory

If I ever write a Doctor Who episode, it'll be about the 11 days so damning that the Church wiped them from historical memory.

Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.

Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.

you guys aren't thinking this through. if the GOP renege on any part of this deal they'll look like shameful hypocrites!

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

sound on. I’m still laughing

A society so intellectual that an economist's op-ed on another economist's tax policy gets a news alert.

Cable news and social media are the leaded gasoline of our time. www.ft.com/content/5060...

No better way to honor Cheney than shooting from the hip.

New details on life of Cambridge hero. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Need something life-affirming? Allow me to recommend Perfect Days (2023), a meditation on life and beauty and public sanitation infrastructure. Don't watch the trailer. Don't expect intense plotting. Do watch through the end of the credits.

Private Eye.

No amount of bolding will save this company’s name.

cc: Janet Mills leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...

We live in an episode of Veep

A happy change: my article on Rousseau’s three general wills is now open access at the Review of Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Humans are the only animals known to weep emotionally. But we now know that doggos get teary when reunited with their humans. 🥺

Tomorrow belongs to me!

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

I hear that it’s nearly impossible to unsubscribe

What kind of society can’t discuss courtesy without legality?

"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy

wtf japan

Try as I might, can’t escape concussionball.

Unmitigated malpractice in this coverage.

wut

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage. The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both. But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

May I suggest to the French

And I thought America took the Rawls hagiography too far.

Hell yeah Cambridge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebr

Why did adjectives associated with intelligence—e.g. smart, clever, brilliant—take on different connotations in the US and UK? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other domain with the same variance.

Starship Troopers (2025)

Trump's civic purpose in relighting the flames of patriotism

you can’t even satirize this shit

Best cover of APSA?

Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Just checking in to see how America is doing...

Point me to the barricades.

Bridleway Revisited