A case in point (from yesterday's Daily): "The Venezuela operation was the sort of Platonic ideal of a Trump military operation" 🤦‍♂️

I wrote a short piece for @the-junkyard.bsky.social, summarizing some of my recent thoughts on the origins of imagination in classical antiquity. You can check it out here!

Dallas, TX - where the most efficient public transport option is… walking

Brilliant news! Congratulations, Niklas!

Imagination and Creativity in the Political Realm Abstract. This chapter explores the political roles and dimensions of imaginative creativity. It looks at some historical accounts that exhibit both fascin

Excited to see that my contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity (ed. @amylkind.bsky.social & Julia Langkau) is now available online. I wrote on "Imagination and Creativity in the Political Realm" - you can read it here

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and an MPSA deadline extension

2026 Call for Papers The political science and philosophy graduate students at Stanford University will host our fifth annual graduate political theory conference on February 6-7, 2026 on the Stanford campus. We are de…

The Stanford graduate political theory conference is now accepting proposals for its fifth annual meeting. This has been my favorite conference as a grad student, and I encourage you to submit a proposal (or pass along the CfP to your graduate students)!

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Looks terrific - congrats, Henrik!

Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students Celebrating the profoundly influential historian Martin Jay and his contribution to graduate education, this new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in...

The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students.

The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits” - Avshalom M. Schwartz, 2025 Among the surviving Funeral Orations, Pericles’s is the only one that does not mention the mythical Catalogue of Exploits. To explain this anomaly, this paper s...

I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
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Political theorists! APT is once again hosting a workshop for first time book authors - draft book proposals will be reviewed by published faculty and by Angela Chnapko, acquisitions editor for Oxford University Press. Applications due July 21! Info: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...

HOME | politicalphilosophy Discussions with Philosophers and public figures. Politics, ethics, meta-ethics, human rights, religion, atheism, liberalism, and republicanism.

I'm doing podcast invites - anyone you'd recommend I have on?

Political theorists, philosophers, & anyone else with something to say in that domain

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My favorite advice from grad school: be a “puzzle solver,” not a “gap filler”

I had the pleasure of reviewing Naomi Campa's excellent new book, "Freedom and Power in Classical Athens," for The Review of Politics. You can check out my review here:

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Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) [Gienapp, Jonathan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)

Now that I am on here, a thread collecting events, discussions, interviews, and reviews connected to my new book, *Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique*, published by Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social.

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Me, whenever a NYT reporter is saying “the Platonic ideal of…” on The Headlines/Daily

2025 PTPS Junior Scholars Workshop We seek paper proposals for the sixth Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) Junior Scholars Workshop, which will take place at McGill April 25-26, 2025. An ongoing collaboration among fa...

CFP: Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. #polisky

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Reading Seneca’s Letters and feeling very personally attacked by this sentence

The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025 is now accepting applications! To submit an abstract, visit the website:

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Grad students whose work sits at the intersection of history and political science:

Would you be interested in getting involved in the WPSA Virtual Community on History and Politics I am convening with Vik Visana?

You can workshop a paper, serve as a discussant, and more!

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Maybe @henrikdku.bsky.social can help?

Imagination and Democracy — The Junkyard A post by Avshalom Schwartz The current crisis of liberal democracy has brought with it growing concerns over the inability of citizens to agree on basic facts, beliefs, and views about the world. ...

I wrote a short piece on imagination and democracy for
The Junkyard. You can read it here - comments are welcomed and much appreciated!

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Imagination, Misinformation, and Democracy | Avshalom Schwartz Listen to this episode from The Civic Agora on Spotify. In this episode of The Civic Agora, we chat with Avshalom Schwartz. Avshalom is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Civics Initiative at Stan...

I had the great pleasure of joining Javier Mejia on the Civic Agora Podcast for a conversation about imagination, democracy, collective action, and misinformation!

You can listen to it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts:

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A Southern twist on Rosh Hashanah dinner: smoked brisket with apple BBQ sauce and round challah dinner rolls. Shana tova y’all!

Join us next week for this very cool political theory "mini-conference," where I'll be presenting new work on the "democratic imagination" alongside this wonderful line-up of presenters and discussants. All are welcome!