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I teach and write about general jurisprudence, legal and political realism, metaethics, free speech, religious toleration, academic freedom, Nietzsche, Marx and other topics at the University of Chicago. Homepage: https://brianleiter.net/ .. more

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Brian Russell Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. A review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews described Leiter as "one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time", while a review in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies described Leiter's book Nietzsche on Morality (2002) as "arguably the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the past twenty years." .. more

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Brian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social · 17d
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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Journals that publish symposia on recent books?
A philosopher elsewhere writes: “I’m trying to put…comments [received on the philosopher’s recent book] together in the form of a book symposium, which would also include my repli…
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Philosopher (and former FBI agent) Luke Hunt discusses Trump’s abuse of the National Guard for domestic policing…
…on Australian TV. Professor Hunt treads rather too lightly on the political theater dimension of all this, but perhaps that is prudent for a University of Alabama professor!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d
The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
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Brian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social · 6d
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Book authors may be entitled to compensation in the settlement with Anthropic…
which used pirated copies of books to train its LLMs. Details here, including how to look up to see whether your books were used, and also how to file a claim. In my case, Why Tolerate Religion? (P…
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 6d
My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 8d
“The summoning of the nation’s generals, the insistence on loyalty, the unhinged rhetoric—I had all of that,” the North Korean dictator added. “The only thing I didn’t have was the weird drunk guy with all the makeup.” open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Furious Kim Jong Un Claims Trump Stole His Idea of Gathering Generals
“That asshole totally ripped me off.”
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Brian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social · 8d
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In Memoriam: Jonathan Lear (1948-2025) (UPDATED; ORIGINALLY POSTED 9/22/25)
I’m very sorry to report that my colleague Jonathan Lear died this morning.  During his long career, he taught at Cambridge University, Yale University, and the University of Chicago, an…
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