Very pleased that this special issue festschrift for Joe Carens is now out in CRISPP. Featuring @simonechambers.bsky.social @abizadeh.bsky.social, @melissa1008.bsky.social, Sarah Song, Jim Johnson, Rainer Baubock, Courtney Jung, Tom Malleson, Kiran Banerjee, me, and Joe Carens. Quite proud of this!
The talk I gave last week at the ICGE Speaker Series is up on YouTube. Based on ideas developed with @amitr.bsky.social in Everyone's Business. It was a fun chat!
Had a great conversation on The Curious Task about Everyone's Business, and the nature of business ethics more generally
My and Amit's (is that how you say it?) critical dialogue with @pyneron.bsky.social at POP over our different ways of understanding the relationship between democracy and business
I'll never not hate that in baseball they give the trophy to the owner
Logo of "Ethics & International Affairs" with the hashtag "#OpenAccess" on a blue banner, set against a geometric patterned background.
#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs -
The Politics and Morality of Transnational Corporate Accountability - https://cup.org/3Kue196
- @abesinger.bsky.social
#FirstView
Very excited that this edition of Virtual Sentiments about our new book is up! Really enjoyed talking with @kristenrosec.bsky.social; I strongly recommend checking out some of the other episodes!
Thrilled to share our latest Virtual Sentiments episode with @amitr.bsky.social and @abesinger.bsky.social on their work on what it should mean for businesses to be committed to democracy! Available wherever you listen to your podcasts! overcast.fm/+AA94orNPhpw
@amitr.bsky.social and I talked with Jeff Church about our newest book on the Political Theory Review Podcast. Check it out!
Glad to see the Knicks continued the legacy of my childhood and absolutely gut wrenching losses to the pacers
Some sunshine
New paper with Kiran Banerjee on Joseph Carens and The Toronto School of Political Theory up at CRISPP. This is part of a special issue celebrating the legacy of Joe's work, including papers by @abizadeh.bsky.social, @tom-malleson.bsky.social, @simonechambers.bsky.social and others. Check it out!
"This dilemma dogs political theorists of all stripes and traditions, keeping us awake at night and cursing resentfully at the moral philosophers and positivist political scientists who sleep soundly, dreaming of thought experiments and low p-scores, in nearby beds."
Very excited to see this excellent piece in print. This is the part of a special issue of CRISPP dedicated to the political thought of Joseph Carens', which I co-edited with @melissa1008.bsky.social and Kiran Banerjee. More to come!
Article in 𝘊𝘙𝘐𝘚𝘗𝘗 in honour of Joseph Carens on borders and migration: "The Burdens of Jurisdiction and the Alleged Right to Exclude Unwanted Migrants."
A critique of Michael Blake's argument against more open borders
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Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.
@amitr.bsky.social and I will be giving a talk on our new book at the University of San Diego on March 26th. If you're in town come check it out!
It’s Purim time! Thanks to @peterbeinart.bsky.social for this thoughtful reflection on the telling of the Purim story and the unconscionable slaughter in Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Precisely! To be clear I don't think the social critique in, say, "And We Thought Nation States Were a Bad Idea" is wrong. Just that it's importantly different.
I was recently thinking about Propaghandi shows of my youth. They would often mention the Mussolini quote about merging corporate and state power to claim fascism, but misunderstand what "corporate" meant in that context or the direction of influence that merge implied. That seems relevant now.
