Good thing soldiers are never cramped in small spaces and exposed to infections diseases.

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He was not Honus Wagner.

Oh my God -- I went to the game today. If not for the lovely weather, it would have been a complete loss. Perhaps in time, I'll be able to claim I witnessed Mets history -- their longest losing streak in franchise history? Alvarez looks great at bat. That's something, at least?

Furious Minds “[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...

I'm seconding @dwmbarker.bsky.social's recommendation of @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds, which is all about these people. I don't think Vermeule or Deneen, have any interest in retaining classical liberal democracy. So this has particularly dark connotations for "intellectual diversity."

Excited for @lkatfield.bsky.social's event at Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op tomorrow afternoon!

So sorry to learn this.

It's absolutely my pleasure, Alex. I'm excited when anyone that age wants to think about folks like Plato & Rousseau!

We're reading Liberalism as a Way of Life in a few weeks in my upper-division course. Will report back with students' reactions.

Opinion | Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump?

A question I've been asking myself a lot lately. Early theories from Thomas Edsall are very plausible, but not encouraging. Of course, I'd add one thing he doesn't mention: genuine fear of protesting against a government that revels in punishing universities and deporting students.

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ humanities jobs, but there will be ‘more than enough jobs’ for people with vocational training | Fortune Alex Karp said he struggled to market his humanities skills to get his first job.

Imagine how much happier philosophy students will be if they were only unclogging toilets. No slight to plumbers, who are important! But let's recognize that there are lots of different kinds of people who are better and worse-suited for different jobs.

I read many chapter drafts as they were published in the Lyric Opera programs!

Assuming we make it to 2029 in something approximating one piece, one of the first orders of business will be to amend the pardon powers outlined in the Constitution. Probably good to start with placing a fairly strict limit on the number of pardons.

These machines have been used by the current administration to decide who gets fired, who gets bombed, and which aid programs get eliminated. Industry wants us to integrate it into every element of our lives.

As someone who has spent A LOT of time in Texas (and read some of the banned texts at a state university there), this all makes me very sad.

This is no way to run institutions of higher learning. Hopefully, Texans will figure this out before their universities are decimated.

Good post today. I just taught Schmitt this spring for the first time in ages, and I was very much struck by the fact that for all the attention he places on "enemies," there is virtually no attention whatsoever paid to "friends." Indeed, it's a massive oversight in the book. And also revealing.

Better idea still, @govpritzker.illinois.gov? Just say no to data centers. These things are a menace to civilization. Please talk with anyone attempting to teach students to read or write these days.

International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism Click on the article title to read more.

Very pleased to share this essay in @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social by my former student, @arturochang.bsky.social, who is going to outpublish my entire corpus before he goes up for tenure!

You can now order the paperback directly from @princetonupress.bsky.social at a 30% discount by entering the code PUP30 on their order form!

The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx by David Lay Williams

In The Greatest of All Plagues, @laywilliams.bsky.social traces how the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality.

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When globalization was sold by Western leaders, including Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, it was on the assumption that the middle classes of rich countries would really do well. They didn’t sell it on the assumption that China would do well.
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@tmbejan.bsky.social: Your blurb made the cut for the back of the dust jacket. Thanks so much, again, for the kind words!

8) Finally, many thanks to all who have already acquired and read the book. It's been a thrill to chat with so many about historical treatments of inequality. I'm looking forward to many more such conversations to come!

7) Local shoppers in Chicago can get copies at Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op, where it is featured on the paperback Front Table. (They also ship books, if you're looking to support local and small businesses from a distance.)

The Greatest of All Plagues How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality

6) Paperback editions can be ordered directly from the @princetonupress.bsky.social website.

5) We are hardly the first people in the world to encounter serious economic inequality. We can learn something from those who confronted it in the past.

4) I'm delighted that this book is part of a trending interest in understanding inequality not only in its contemporary manifestations, but as a historical phenomenon. (E.g., read the amazing new or forthcoming books by @brankomilan.bsky.social, Darrin McMahon, and @tmbejan.bsky.social.)

Review | Debating economic inequality, with help from Jesus, Plato and Rousseau In “The Greatest of All Plagues,” David Lay Williams writes about seven major thinkers who saw inequality as a grave political threat and proposed specific remedies for it.

3) The book has received an overwhelming number of positive reviews, including at the Washington Post, Nature, The Nation, Jacobin, Unherd, Compact Magazine, and numerous scholarly journals. (see @washingtonpost.com review below)