I’m honored! It’s a wonderful book :)

1) Today is the official paperback release of my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx. It traces how several canonical thinkers have encountered inequality in developing their political theory.

I’m honored! The argument has changed a bit since then, I’ll be eager to hear your thoughts.

Ach, thank you for this—long-awaited by me, too!

First Among Equals — Harvard University Press An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents like the Levellers and the politica...

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@tmbejan.bsky.social's long-awaited (by me) First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism has a publication date of 10.20.2026.

Katie Ebner-Landy · Gender Wonder: Early Modern Women’s Writing Was there such a thing as a female style in early modern England? For several authors, valorising originality meant...

‘Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's chosen poets were already engaged, she argues, in critical debates about literary style. Early modern women “theorised literature as much as men did”.

Katie Ebner-Landy on early modern women’s writing.

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Tom Johnson · Save My Beer: Industrious Revolution Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

‘Everyone bought things at market. But most grew at least some of their own food, gathered their own wool and made their own clothes. They had a much more direct stake in the means of production.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern work.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

Pls share & circulate to junior political theorists & scientists.

CFP Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) panels at the annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE). Deadline April 10.

#poliski #poltheory

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

The Ninth Annual Adams Symposium for the Public Humanities - Department of Philosophy First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal Featuring Dr. Teresa Bejan Dr. Teresa Bejan will discuss themes from her forthcoming book, First Among Equals, which explores equality as a ...

I’m delighted to be delivering the 9th annual Adams Lecture in the Public Humanities at UNC on April 17th, “First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal.”

Details at the link:

philosophy.unc.edu/event/the-ni...

The Ninth Annual Adams Symposium for the Public Humanities - Department of Philosophy First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal Featuring Dr. Teresa Bejan Dr. Teresa Bejan will discuss themes from her forthcoming book, First Among Equals, which explores equality as a ...

I’m delighted to be delivering the 9th annual Adams Lecture in the Public Humanities at UNC on April 17th, “First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal.”

Details at the link:

philosophy.unc.edu/event/the-ni...

Very cool!

With shout out to @tmbejan.bsky.social

Very excited for this @tmbejan.bsky.social!!!

First Among Equals — Harvard University Press An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents like the Levellers and the politica...

My second book, First Among Equals, is now up on the HUP website. Can’t wait till it’s finally out in the world this October!

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Carlyle Lectures The Shape of Democracy - Jill Frank (President White Professor of History & Political Science, Cornell University)

Lovely hosting by @tmbejan.bsky.social @danieljamesbutt.bsky.social & others yesterday in Oxford, + great turnout/engagement at my 'methodology' talk. Extra thanks though 2 Jill Frank for coming along the day before starting her Carlyle Lectures: www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lect... (5pm today!)

Christ Church meadow at dawn today. Misty and muddy but still lovely. As always looking for reflective equilibrium @tmbejan.bsky.social @danieljamesbutt.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social @edmundhandby.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social

The Campus Civility Collapse After October 7, discourse broke down. How can we restore it?

Mere Civility is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Ed this week, in a lovely article by Marie Newhouse. It’s the article I should have written! (Instead I was finishing my equality book which should be out next autumn…)

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Nun geht es zur Abschlusskeynote von Teresa Bejan unter dem Titel Speaking as Equals

Jacob is special to us all

indeed...but I had the impression that there was an unwillingness across the whole event to acknowledge a distinction bw free speech and academic freedom lest the problem become a difficult one
in the way Jacob acknowledges

I got the impression that he had read Jacob’s 2016 essay a long time ago and remembered the appeal to Oakeshott but not the argument.

I was there and raised precisely this point.

From @mchangama.bsky.social:

“Now, as supposed champions of free speech seek to suppress it…it is crucial to reinforce the principle’s real meaning rather than let those who wield it cynically [to] strip the public’s faith in its potential...”

www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/who-...

Secrets of a Radical Duke How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery

Get thee (me) to the Beinecke…

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

My graduate alma mater is hiring in political theory, specifically American Political Thought. Austin is a great town* -- and it's a lovely theory community.

Congratulations, Jo, so sorry I couldn’t be there!

Definitely going to check out the Panera where TJ wrote his Notes on the State of Virginia when I’m in C-ville next month.

Thank you!

People who expect deference resent mere civility-

On point.