“Vermeule resembled an American tourist rummaging through a European intellectual antiquities store, picking out a little natural law theory from Aquinas, some Roman materials from a dark corner at the back; he then resold the resulting bricolage under the label ‘classical’ …”
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Vermeule resembled an American tourist rummaging through a European intellectual antiquities store, picking out a little natural law theory from Aquinas, some Roman materials from a dark corner at the back; he then resold the resulting bricolage under the label ‘classical’ …”
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Incidentally I think that one of the issues with Rowling’s portrayal of the Wizarding World is that she’d like to do Tolkien level world building but she has approximately the same world building skills as CS Lewis (“I’m going to take these cool things and that dream, put them together, and stir!”)
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Incidentally I think that one of the issues with Rowling’s portrayal of the Wizarding World is that she’d like to do Tolkien level world building but she has approximately the same world building skills as CS Lewis (“I’m going to take these cool things and that dream, put them together, and stir!”)
Meeting the @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social test
Not to pat my profession on the back, for all of our problems, but I do think it's to the law's credit that every US bar association that reviewed Glass' application for a license went "fuuuuuuuuuuuck no."
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Meeting the @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social test
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Another hominin cousin! Nice toes!
The Burtele foot has been puzzling anthropologists for a while - but it looks like there was another australopith living around the same time as Lucy (A. afarensis) - 3.4 Myra - that liked climbing trees a lot more
go.nature.com/49BkCZY
The Burtele foot has been puzzling anthropologists for a while - but it looks like there was another australopith living around the same time as Lucy (A. afarensis) - 3.4 Myra - that liked climbing trees a lot more
go.nature.com/49BkCZY
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda - Nature
3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
go.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Another hominin cousin! Nice toes!
The Burtele foot has been puzzling anthropologists for a while - but it looks like there was another australopith living around the same time as Lucy (A. afarensis) - 3.4 Myra - that liked climbing trees a lot more
go.nature.com/49BkCZY
The Burtele foot has been puzzling anthropologists for a while - but it looks like there was another australopith living around the same time as Lucy (A. afarensis) - 3.4 Myra - that liked climbing trees a lot more
go.nature.com/49BkCZY
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London fam! @nisrinelamin.bsky.social is going to be in town next week!
and for the rest of us who are not in london, we can join virtually!
lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
and for the rest of us who are not in london, we can join virtually!
lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
London fam! @nisrinelamin.bsky.social is going to be in town next week!
and for the rest of us who are not in london, we can join virtually!
lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
and for the rest of us who are not in london, we can join virtually!
lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
Addicted to pointless violence. Not quite as badly as Kevin Muscat, but close.
Lucas Hernández is a dipshit
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Addicted to pointless violence. Not quite as badly as Kevin Muscat, but close.
Afghan translators, Kurds who helped the Turks kill Armenians, Maasai levies who helped Britain conquer Kenya … this story has an awfully familiar ending.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Afghan translators, Kurds who helped the Turks kill Armenians, Maasai levies who helped Britain conquer Kenya … this story has an awfully familiar ending.
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my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
My dissertation turns 10 next month and I've been dipping in to see if there's anything in there worth pulling out and working with, and each chapter is effectively about a different emotional struggle that would be familiar today.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
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Really thrilled that my second book is now published! It explores the life of Tacfarinas, a C1st AD auxiliary soldier-deserter-bandit-rebel who came to lead a revolt against #Rome in NW Africa during the early reign of Tiberius. He is a truly fascinating figure in #Roman history! 🏺AncientBlueSky
June 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Charles Darwin briefly discussed dogs’ senses of humor in the 2nd edition of ‘The Descent of Man’ 👇 and then fleshed those ideas out further in ‘The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals’
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Charles Darwin briefly discussed dogs’ senses of humor in the 2nd edition of ‘The Descent of Man’ 👇 and then fleshed those ideas out further in ‘The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals’
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
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I fully intend it!
Bluesky would be a lot better if people on here were more self-conscious about being unintentional parodies of Bluesky users.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I fully intend it!
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Saint Mark preaching in an Alexandria that includes an only slightly exoticized San Marco. From the fantastic combined imaginations of brothers Gentile & Giovanni Bellini.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Saint Mark preaching in an Alexandria that includes an only slightly exoticized San Marco. From the fantastic combined imaginations of brothers Gentile & Giovanni Bellini.
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Enjoyed this little discussion in Middlemarch between Ladislaw and Lydgate on the importance of having an MP that lives in the constituency
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Enjoyed this little discussion in Middlemarch between Ladislaw and Lydgate on the importance of having an MP that lives in the constituency
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One way I am quite philosophically conservative is I do basically think that knowledge of logic (like the traditional discipline including in its modern mathematical format) makes one better at following and reconstructing ordinary language arguments, and thus should be mandatory for grad students.
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One way I am quite philosophically conservative is I do basically think that knowledge of logic (like the traditional discipline including in its modern mathematical format) makes one better at following and reconstructing ordinary language arguments, and thus should be mandatory for grad students.
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Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
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This is Femi admitting that Ghanaian jollof is better trust me no need to check context.
honestly becoming friends with you did a lot in this regard as well, I haven't gotten to your degree of skill with this yet but we're all works in progress lol
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is Femi admitting that Ghanaian jollof is better trust me no need to check context.
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"The most stirring contemporary defenses of liberalism, like Elizabeth Anderson’s 𝘏𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, demonstrate a combined commitment to liberalism’s merits along with an honest understanding of where we have gone wrong. Unfortunately, many others adopt a small-c conservative defensiveness."
Liberalism or Inertia? Cass Sunstein's "Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom"
Cass Sunstein’s book adopt a small-c conservative defensiveness that belies a now requisite rejuvenating liberal imagination.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The most stirring contemporary defenses of liberalism, like Elizabeth Anderson’s 𝘏𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, demonstrate a combined commitment to liberalism’s merits along with an honest understanding of where we have gone wrong. Unfortunately, many others adopt a small-c conservative defensiveness."
Yes. It’s straight up Fanon, which is why I strongly believe no one should be allowed to read Virgil without it to hand
Do you ever think about how the most famous and influential anti-imperial resistance literature in Western history is the Book of Revelation?
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yes. It’s straight up Fanon, which is why I strongly believe no one should be allowed to read Virgil without it to hand
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And even though Vatican II and its ongoing aftermath have not been an unalloyed blessing, they are in real and important ways a real, massive victory and vindication for the Erasmian way. But there's always more work to be done, and the centuries-old psychopathologies are still alive and well
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
And even though Vatican II and its ongoing aftermath have not been an unalloyed blessing, they are in real and important ways a real, massive victory and vindication for the Erasmian way. But there's always more work to be done, and the centuries-old psychopathologies are still alive and well
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The tech leaders who championed DOGE are gonna try to get back into influencing the Democratic Party, and I think it’s a different situation than welcoming back regretful Trump 2024 voters
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The tech leaders who championed DOGE are gonna try to get back into influencing the Democratic Party, and I think it’s a different situation than welcoming back regretful Trump 2024 voters
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Historically, the fascists fled to Brazil, not from it. The times they are a-changing.
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Historically, the fascists fled to Brazil, not from it. The times they are a-changing.
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this generalizes helpfully to a lot of peer pressure - even the sorts that aren't based in bigotry and even the kinds that are cosmetically based on good seeming politics ("would a Real Comrade / Ally / Pan-Africanist / leftist do XYZ?!")
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
this generalizes helpfully to a lot of peer pressure - even the sorts that aren't based in bigotry and even the kinds that are cosmetically based on good seeming politics ("would a Real Comrade / Ally / Pan-Africanist / leftist do XYZ?!")
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...