Rob McConnell Interviews - DR. MARK DAVIS - Demons of Democracy Mark Davis is a political commentator and author who explores themes of governance, ideology, and public discourse in works such as Demons of Democracy. Davis examines how political polarization, ideological conflict, and competing interpretations of democratic principles can shape national debates and public policy. His work discusses the tensions that arise within democratic systems when differing values, interests, and power structures collide, encouraging readers to consider how societies can navigate disagreement while preserving the foundations of democratic governance.

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First published in 1614, John Selden’s Titles of honor has long been ignored by historians of political thought. A large and compendious description of the various titles of Europe and the Near East; by its structure and tone, it resembles nothing more than a work of dusty antiquarianism. It attracted none of the controversy that would plague Selden’s Historie of tithes (1618); and it did not state its polemical purpose in such explicit terms as his Mare clausum (1635). If historians of political thought have remembered it at all, they have done so because Thomas Hobbes recommended the work in chapter 10 of Leviathan (1651). This article will treat Titles of honor as a work of political intention. Following Selden’s engagement with Roman Civil Law, it will argue that he composed the treatise to criticize sixteenth-century theories of resistance, and the medieval theories of divided sovereignty upon which they were founded. In short, this article will seek to reframe Titles of honor as a defence of state sovereignty against theories of noble resistance – and so explain Hobbes’s affection for the work.

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Felix Liber on 'Reading John Selden’s Titles of honor (1614) as a Work of Polemic'

#Politics #PoliticalThought #Hobbes #Law #EarlyModern 📜🗃️ 17thc

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Empire justified hierarchy as duty; Gandhi first worked within it before confronting its closed moral logic.
By Dr. Jan Muhammad Shaikh

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/23-Feb-2026/...

#BritishEmpire #Gandhi #ColonialHistory #Imperialism #Ambedkar #PoliticalThought

Empire, Gandhi, And Ambedkar: The Struggle Between Hierarchy And Liberation Liberation from empire did not automatically entail liberation from hierarchy

Empire justified hierarchy as duty; Gandhi first worked within it before confronting its closed moral logic.
By Dr. Jan Muhammad Shaikh

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/23-Feb-2026/...

#BritishEmpire #Gandhi #ColonialHistory #Imperialism #Ambedkar #PoliticalThought

Equality, Modernity, and Inclusion in Judith Drake’s Essay in Defence of the Female Sex | Polity: Vol 58, No 1 Judith Drake’s Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696) is a unique contribution to early English feminist thought. Both scathingly funny and remarkably erudite, the work wades into a variety of phil...

Mary Jo MacDonald’s “Equality, Modernity, and Inclusion in Judith Drake’s Essay” examines how Drake’s 1696 feminist work argues that sexual differences do not justify excluding women from public life.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#FeministTheory #PoliticalThought #PoliSky

Did you know Mera J. Flaumenhaft challenged traditional political thought? The American academic (1945-2018) brought fresh perspectives to classical philosophy, sparking debates that still resonate today. (Q6817860) #PoliticalThought #ClassicalPhilosophy

Illusions Not Included (@illusionsnotincluded) February 12 – The Place of Man in the World On February 12, 1809, two men were born on different continents who, in very different arenas, answered the same fundamental question: where do we stand in...

📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
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#IllusionsNotIncluded #INI #AlexBuday #History #PoliticalThought #Evolution #Leadership #Darwin #Lincoln #substack

Turning Points in U.S. Politics: From Vietnam to 9/11 - Dennis Joiner Explore the major turning points in U.S. politics that shaped modern America, from Vietnam to 9/11, and changed the nation’s direction.

When I examined turning points in U.S. politics, one theme kept emerging: history rarely changes in a single dramatic instant. Instead, it shifts through a buildup of...
Please read it here: www.djoinerbooks.com/turning-poin...
#USPolitics #HistoricalTrends #TurningPoints #PoliticalThought

The history of political thought traces how political ideas evolve 🗳️📚 It examines thinkers, texts, and contexts to understand how concepts such as sovereignty, liberty, and authority emerged and evolved. #PoliticalThought #HistoryOfIdeas

Arthashastra: The Ancient Playbook for Power, Governance, and Strategy. Sanjay Mohindroo

Is leadership about moral comfort or lasting order? The Arthashastra forces that choice. What would you protect first? #Arthashastra #Kautilya #Chanakya #AncientIndia #Statecraft #Governance #Strategy #Leadership #Power #PoliticalThought
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Arthashastra: The Ancient Playbook for Power, Governance, and Strategy. Sanjay Mohindroo

Is leadership about moral comfort or lasting order? The Arthashastra forces that choice. What would you protect first? #Arthashastra #Kautilya #Chanakya #AncientIndia #Statecraft #Governance #Strategy #Leadership #Power #PoliticalThought
medium.com/@skmohindroo...

#hotoffthepress Congratulations 🎉to Drs Chris Perkins & Ferran de Vargas on their new book📚
#PoliticalThought & #JapansNewLeftMovement
More here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/political...

Kaplan’s *Waste Land* turns Eliot’s “April is the cruellest month” into a warning about global political exhaustion and civilisational vertigo.
#PoliticalThought #GlobalCrisis #CivilisationalDecline
Read Full Article: stratheia.com/book-review-...

Great thinkers and leaders who criticized democracy In today’s world, most countries follow democracy as their system of governance. We are taught that democracy is the right way to build a…

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#Democracy #History #Politics #PoliticalThought #CivicAwareness #Governance #Philosophy #Society #Power #HistoryMatters
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My review of Four Philosophers and the Bomb (Routledge) has just been published in Global Age.

Revisiting Russell, Aron, Jaspers, and Anders helps us rethink the nuclear age, and why it still concerns us today.

www.globalage.it/index.php/oj...

#BookReview #Philosophy #NuclearAge #PoliticalThought

Crumbling Nation States - Stratheia Reflection on nation-states, digital repression, and the erosion of freedoms, questioning obsolete structures and political alternatives.

Beyond the nation-state. Oppression cannot sustain governance; it is time to imagine political systems that are not “holy,” but wholly humane.
#PostNationalism #HumaneGovernance #PoliticalThought
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Paine had bars: “Nature disapproves hereditary right… turning it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.”

It wasn’t a lie—it was a spark. But it became an American origin myth: fueling freedom and erasing unfinished justice. Both are true. #History #PoliticalThought

Asking again because no-one noticed yesterday: did Rousseau actually say ‘eat the rich’? If so where? #eighteenthcentury #politicalthought #historyofphilosophy

Exploring the history of political thought reveals how ideas of liberty, authority, democracy, and sovereignty evolved 📚🏛️. These debates still influence modern politics. #PoliticalThought #IntellectualHistory

The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right The conservative backlash against Nick Fuentes has yet to challenge the president who had him over for dinner.

I need to make sure I finish reading those critique of American Conservatism by the @theatlantic.com

Unfortunately for it I only noticed it right before I need to go to sleep.

#Politics #voteblue #proudblue #bluecrew #politicalthought

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Talk about an Orwellian use of the term Human Rights 🙄

#Politics #Voteblue #PoliticalThought #Bluecrew #Proudblue

Host Lisa Cypers Kamen is thrilled to be at the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social conference. 🌞 🌎 Looking forward to hearing from the impressive lineup of featured speakers. 🧠

#Philosophy #PoliticalThought #ArendtCon2025 #JoyInDarkTimes #Morality #PositivePsychology #Psychology

Reflections on the legacy of ‘Jacobin egalitarianism’ in post-Thermidorian France can be seen as following one of three strands: conservative, communist, or democratic. By shedding light on the democratic trajectory, this article addresses the historiographical imbalance that has disproportionately focused on conservative and communist perspectives. This study thereby pursues a renewed understanding of the relationship between the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the evolution of political economy. Through an analysis of Étienne-Géry Lenglet’s treatise, De la propriété (1798), the contexts and content of democratic political economy during the revolutionary decade are identified. Lenglet’s politics formed an intervention in the debates during the Directory on the dynamics of property, morality, the franchise, and the principles of modern polities. His thought exemplifies a Condorcetian egalitarianism that grappled with the dilemmas posed by the rise of commerce and standing armies. This analysis of Lenglet’s work challenges the notion that the radicals of the French Revolution operated outside of Enlightenment political economy: De la propriété was deeply rooted in Enlightenment and revolutionary rhetoric. Lenglet’s politics emerges as a crucial component of diverse reform projects that contradicts reified depictions of Enlightenment political thought.

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Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University) on ‘Political Equality and Economic Inequality in Étienne-Géry Lenglet’s Recipe for the Modern Republic’

#Revolution #Jacobin #PoliticalThought #Intellectual 18thc 🗃️

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Wittgenstein's Monster (@wittgensteinmonster@mastodon.social) 🧵 The Paradox of Tolerance (1/8) Tolerance is a virtue — but what happens when it’s used as a weapon against itself? This is the heart of the paradox of tolerance, a concept introduced by philosopher...

just posted a thread on the paradox of tolerance —
popper, rawls, voltaire, hate speech, democracy, and the cost of staying open.
includes art and context.
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#ParadoxOfTolerance #Philosophy #Popper #Voltaire #BlindFaithAdjacent #PoliticalThought #bskyVerse

Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism Celebrated Italian author and scholar Umberto Eco (1932-2016)  published an article in 1995 entitled Ur-Fascism . Eco grew up during the time of Mussolini. In the article, he jumps from memories of…

Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism

#HackerNews #UmbertoEco #UrFascism #Fascism #Philosophy #PoliticalThought #CriticalTheory
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

George Orwell

#Quotes #PoliticalThought #Foodforthought #voteblue

Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: sites.google.com/site/christo....

The horse — just out of reach — becomes a symbol of lost sovereignty.

Maybe power was never divine. Just someone who used to ride.

#Mythology #WelshMyth #Mabinogion #Folklore #PoliticalThought #HorsesInMyth #CelticStudies #PowerAndWealth

You don't have to just have rent go down if you wanna be mayor of NYC. You could also try to make wages go up 👨‍🎓 #PoliticalThought