Come work with @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social and me!
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Announcing the ETHICS/PEASoup Discussion (4/29 and 30) on “Justice for Girls: On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care” a free article by Alyssa Izatt and Kimberley Brownlee at doi.org/10.1086/7396..., with a précis by Japa Pallikkathayil, peasoupblog.com/2026/04/anno... #philsky
Relatedly, if your entrenched tyrant can lose everything in a wave tyrannicide, you are not living in a tyranny!
I'm not sure I know of any political theorist or political scientist who would endorse what Douthat says about democracy there.
Some of you have never been on a research journey and it shows.
The university administration has begun an ideological crackdown in the vein of "divisive concepts" laws at the unit with the weakest governance and academic freedom protections—the Lab School. Read our full statement here: www.uchicagoaaup.org/statements/l...
Congratulation—huge achievemen!
"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods"
"In most instances examined by The Times, the intended target of a strike was not clear. In some cases, schools and health care facilities ... were directly hit."
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Democratic Equality for Washington, D.C.! Elliot Mamet The political status of Washington, D.C., is a longstanding question in American political thought. Intervening in that debate, I argue that Washington, D.C. deserves democratic equality. Democratic equality entails that, at a minimum, D.C. residents should have the power to vote for representatives in national and local legislatures (like residents of the several states), that their vote should have equal weight to others, and that D.C.’s elected legislative representatives should have power to vote on what the law is. This ideal of democratic equality for D.C. is only possible via D.C. statehood. Drawing on original archival research, the article provides a historical overview of D.C.’s democratic disenfranchisement, outlines three principal forms of democratic inequality faced by D.C. residents, and imagines what democratic equality for D.C. might look like. It concludes by sketching a broader research agenda about the democratic injustices accorded to those Americans living outside the several states
The article proceeds as follows. First, I survey D.C.’s long history of democratic disenfranchisement. Second, I outline three principal forms of democratic disenfranchise- ment faced by D.C. residents: in its limited local self- government, votelessness in the House, and voicelessness in the Senate. Third, I present an argument that D.C. deserves democratic equality and respond to the most persuasive objections. Fourth, I imagine what democratic equality for D.C. would look like in practical terms. And last, I propose a broader research agenda about the democratic injustices accorded to Americans living outside the several states. In addition to Washington, D.C., the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are all located on the U.S. democratic periphery, and the residents of those terri- tories also confront acute democratic inequalities. Political science ought to better confront the state-centered bound- aries of U.S. politics, boundaries which create an enduring inequality between states and non-states in American democratic life.
Allow me to alert you to the existence of this paper on why democratic equality requires DC statehood and the scholar, @emamet.bsky.social, doing the hard work of outlining perhaps the most significant gaps in basic democratic representation under the American flag: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
And she has since been deported.
Link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I take the bellwether point, but a lot more people live in New York City than in Wisconsin!
This is one of the most vile things I have ever read.
Wow, same! Literally today. I couldn't believe it.
This & the cancellation of Title VI/FLAS funding for foreign language & area studies pose existential threats to the social sciences at every R1 university in the country. And it's been ~total 🦗🦗 from our university presidents/chancellors & a total lack of public collective action.
Historians: "The long March 30 to April 3, 2026 started in 1953."
DUAL NATIONALITY AND ELECTION RICHARD W. FLOURNOY, JR. (1921)
Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:
I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.
Additional objectives achieved in this war:
-Iran running a toll booth in the Strait
-Iran retaining HEU & more motivated to build a bomb
-Iran regularly launching missiles and drones
-Iranian hardliners elevated and empowered
Bret Stephens: I'm flabbergasted by the relentless pessimism I'm seeing in much of the commentariat. We are less than two weeks into a war that will almost surely be over by the end of the month, and already there are predictions that it's “another Iraq." American casualties, heartbreaking
just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong
At this point it’s no longer hilarious that Italy is missing the World Cup. It’s sad they won’t be there!
like i cannot understate that major sources of social science research funding for PhD candidates are just - gone over the last few years, much less NSF support
- ford /national academy of sciences fellowships
- ssrc international dissertation fellowships
- USIP dissertation fellowships (?)
I can believe this vignette because Emanuel functionally tore apart video evidence of Laquan McDonald's murder by police with similar "intensity and ferocity," aiding the cover-up with "intent and verve and without mercy."
The President of the United States is once again threatening to destroy civilian infrastructure, including objects indispensable to civilian survival, as an act of collective punishment.
All States must condemn this madness and act now to end this lawless war.
”it’s already… about halfway through fiscal year 2026...anything that the NIH has left unspent by the end of September may go back to the Dep. of Treasury. Not giving the NIH enough time to fund enough grants would effectively cut the NIH budget even though Congress did not allow that.”
Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"
I was searching the comments for a reply like this!
Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended
