I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Schwartzman on Asymmetry of Religious Motivation in Religion Clauses Cases Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted The Asymmetry of Religious Motivation (135 Y.L.J.F. 467 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s current approach to religious freedom…

Prof Rob Dunbar has now started as the new chair of Bòrd na Gàidhlig. An important juncture for Gaelic in Scotland as the Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect. Gur math thèid leat a charaid! www.gaidhlig.scot/en/new-chair...

The University of Essex has proposed to discontinue most of their undergraduate language provisions as well as the Languages for All programme as part of large-scale restructuring. Sign their petition to urge the Executive Committee to reconsider the proposal: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm thrilled to share my new podcast at the just-launched Liberalism.org. Now: Chandran Kukathas Next: Elizabeth Anderson and Jacob Levy Soon: Ed Glaeser, Simone Chambers, Melvin Rogers, Mikayla Novak, Theodore Schatzki Listen: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...

Along with @ulceuros.bsky.social, we look forward to welcoming Nils Ringe (Wisconsin–Madison) to talk on "Coping with Europe: EU Membership and Party System Change". Wednesday Feb 25, 2pm, CG-054.

**PPA Seminar** Dr Sinead Walsh from @odi.global, talking on “10 Lessons in Localisation”. Wednesday, February 18, 14:00 Main Building, room CG-054. All Welcome!

‘Hurry for justice’: Windrush victims dying without redress, commissioner says

A book of English firsts, this book explores hawking, hunting and heraldry. 🦅🏹🛡️ By Juliana Berners, this is the first English printed work authored by a woman. It also contains the first images printed in colour in England. 📕 Boke of St Albans, 1486 (10001)

Immigrants in USA: Paid more in taxes than received in benefits every year 1994-2023. Generated ~$10.6 trillion more federal/state/local taxes than the gov spending they induced. Saved $14.5 trillion in debt over 30y period (accounting for savings on interest payments on the national debt).

New publication alert! 🚨 Universal design for learning as emancipatory education?: politics, disagreement, discomfort By Emma Dolan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #UniversalDesign #UniversalDesignForLearning #UDL

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

Jan. 9, 1776: A 47-page pamphlet is published in Philadelphia that will alter the course of history. “Common Sense” by an anonymous writer calling himself “An Englishman”—Thomas Paine—takes up the once-unthinkable idea of American independence and concludes: “ 'TIS TIME TO PART.” 1/10

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Caleb Williams (1794), William Godwin's timely exposé of fake news, dirty tricks, and all the truth-twisting deceptions by which authoritarian governments maintain power, is now trending on Bluesky. (Image from 19c. reprint)

'If a vegetarian hotdog is to be ruled out ... on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should be ruled out on the grounds that it contains no dog'. Highly recommend @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's hilarious column on the livestock lobby's perverse efforts to stop vegan products.

I love this letter from a reader on why “we’re not doing presents this year!” is often a miserable, middle class pursuit. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Kant's moral philosophy

The Court Service pays €40/hour for interpreting and I cannot stress enough how poor that money is for the level of skill involved and the high stakes. Also the right to interpretation is a basic requirement of the right to a fair trial. jrnl.ie/6848629

First PPA Research Seminar of 2025/26! @philip-warncke.bsky.social (UL Psychology / Freie Universität Berlin) presenting on “Boundless but Bundled: Modelling Quasi-infinite Dimensions in Ideological Space”. Wednesday, September 24, 2pm in ERB006 (Engineering Research Building). All welcome!

New chapter by Bernadette Connaughton on developing optimal policy advisory systems in The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems.

New chapter on Cultural Rights as Human Rights by @andrewshorten.bsky.social in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

Happy #jazzsky birthday to Sonny Rollins. (The sole survivor of “Great Day in Harlem” photo.) 95 years young! Sonny Rollins: 'You Can't Think And Play At The Same Time' www.npr.org/2014/05/03/3...

While this might seem like a low number of acceptances, it is justified by the overwhelming danger posed by publishing even a single bad or wrong philosophy paper

UNSR on Minority Issues launches new network with a call for student-led research www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/und...

"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail..." Remembering Charlie Parker, one of the 20th century's greatest musical innovators, born on this day 1920. Wail on Bird X #jazzsky

Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen French Declaration of Rights, landmark of democracy, approved #OTD 1789.

*Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights* - now published! Hurrah! Very proud of this and immensely grateful to my co-editor, Jesse Tomalty, and to all the contributors. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Opinion: Kneecap trial spotlights challenges for Irish speakers in British and Irish courts

New book on What went wrong with Britain? featuring a chapter by Owen Worth about 'Covid, Brexit and the emergence of national populism' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170392/

And another recent paper from Bernadette Connaughton on policy advisory systems and crisis governance: www.emerald.com/ijpsm/articl...

New paper about policy advisory systems by Bernadette Connaughton: academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

A few days remaining to apply for this temporary post. Open to specialisms in Irish Politics, EU Politics, International Relations or Political Theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN443/a...

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." - Happy Birthday to Emma Goldman, once known as 'the most dangerous woman in America', who passionately devoted her thought to issues such as the law, labor, feminism, sexuality - to only name but a few. #womeninphilosophy #anarchism #polphil

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Politics at Limerick, on a specific purpose contract, open to candidates with expertise in *any* of the following: Irish Politics, EU Politics, International Relations, Political Theory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN443/a...

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Politics at Limerick, on a specific purpose contract, open to candidates with expertise in *any* of the following: Irish Politics, EU Politics, International Relations, Political Theory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN443/a...

Le Monde has a livestream of the national philosophy exam 😆 commentator "can we say that these exam questions are difficult this year?" ; expert "no, they are perfectly doable". The breaking news is that RAWLS makes its first appearance in the history of the exam LETSGO

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

Donald Trump has declared English the official language of the U.S. But there is no evidence suggesting that English is under threat; a large majority of immigrants learn English, and more than 90 per cent of Americans speak it very well.

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Spain has revived a push for Basque, Catalan and Galician to be made official EU languages, despite a less-than-enthusiastic response from fellow European countries fearing a domino effect

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winner in a joint letter in today's @financialtimes.com : “President Donald Trump and his administration are on a spectacularly dangerous path” Read more here : www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-...

Chandran Kukathas, Immigration and Freedom.

The UL Sanctuary Programme supports and promotes access to education for refugees & asylum seekers in Ireland Applications are now open to for the 2025/26 academic year Find out more information & apply online here: www.ul.ie/courses/univ... Deadline: 4pm, 31st May 2025 #StudyatUL #Education