So very sorry (and enraged) to hear this. Shout if there’s anything that remote folks can do to lighten the load right now.

New argument for sortition just dropped.

CHICAGO POPE BRINGS ITALIAN BEEF

The older I get, the more that "What Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem" seems like the best, most quotable line in 'The Life of Brian'.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Well the author is a self-declared effective altruist, so he’s probably mostly bummed that there’s no “basically pleasant murder bureaucrat” option

Wild to me that some people are still working with the analytic/Continental distinction - do they not know it has long been superseded by the basically pleasant bureaucrat/sexy murder poet distinction?

"My precious child,
When you saw only one set of footprints,
That wasn't me, the bonespurs were terrible,
you were just alone like the LOSER you are."

Imagine making it to your third Trump vote and thinking "at least blasphemy is still off the table."

the neighbour cat is so posh

Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx

One minor pleasure of the last few years has been reading around & learning something about the history of Hungarian political thought--Lajos Kossuth, József Eötvös, Oszkár Jászi, etc.

So why not celebrate last night's news by reading the new, posthumous volume from the late, lamented István Hont?

Drift Away, 2023, painting by Holmfirth-based Clare Haley.

J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.

Few consolations for Orbán except his upcoming fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Ah yes, the Turn Turn.

Sex is great, but have you ever uninstalled Microsoft Outlook?

I’ve never seen a map that makes more sense.

18th-century moral sentimentalists:

The Euraxess website hates me, won't keep any of my filters, won't let me search, won't even let me scroll past the first page. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there an alternative site for European academic jobs/post-docs?

Blocked and reported.

I’m damned proud of contributing to such work, and I can’t wait to see what my colleagues and friends build next.

The sharper our thinking, the broader our coalitions, the more we win.

Where did I learn this?

From IHS, of course.

We need that unity more than ever. In its pursuit, we'd do well to follow JS Mill's wisdom: avoiding retrenchment and dead dogma through lively, rigorous debate.

Disagreement isn’t some risk to manage. Disagreement *generates* the very progress that we’re after.

One minute you were debating anarcho-capitalists, the next some social democrat. I was hooked.

IHS was even more inclusive when I joined in 2019. Understanding the dangers of MAGAfication, Emily Chamlee-Wright—to her everlasting credit—had set out to unite all liberals in common cause.

I’m stepping away from IHS. Nearly seven years on, it’s long past time that I gave this dissertation my full attention.

I attended my first IHS seminar 15 years ago. It was the strangest and most wonderful intellectual environment I’d ever seen. [1/5]

Chrome's new implementation of vertical tabs (esp. the collapsed view) is excellent.

If it hasn't reached you yet, chrome://flags and then enable Vertical Tabs.

This may be too historical, but How to Hide an Empire is accessible and very well done.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a reading about contemporary imperialism for advanced undergraduates (who have read quite a bit of theories of imperialism)?
#asking4mysyllabus

"fed-up-nik" is a term that deserves much wider use.

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