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Jacob T. Levy
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Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
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Jacob T. Levy is an American political theorist and Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University. Levy is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at McGill, as well as the coordinator of McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies and the founding director of McGill's Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. Levy is also a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and the Institute for Humane Studies. He is known for his expertise on multiculturalism, liberalism, and pluralism. .. more

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19h
Not quite. next lyrics are "hey hey hey."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20h
na na na na, na na na na

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21h
Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations
Files released by US Department of Justice detailed his relationship with the child sex offender
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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 23h
Surely this counts as nonacademic misconduct.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h
I am definitely not going to ask.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h
The undergrads on my campus are having a retro-nostalgia party… for the wayback year of 2016.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d
As Claremont pops up, I want to say I started reading @lkatfield.bsky.social's book about far-right intellectuals, and I really appreciated that she put their sexism front and center. It was the book I needed when I was writing mine (bc I did not understand Claremont)
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Furious Minds: The Making of the Maga New Right
The Making of the Maga New Right
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.

Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.

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Screenshot of a statement posted on CIA.gov reading as follows: *** One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. Let’s take a quick look into the history of The World Factbook. Over many decades, The World Factbook evolved from a classified to unclassified, hardcopy to electronic product that added new categories, and even new global entities. The original classified publication, titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, launched in 1962. The first unclassified companion version was issued in 1971. A decade later it was renamed The World Factbook. In 1997, The World Factbook went digital and debuted to a worldwide audience on CIA.gov, where it garnered millions of views each year. The World Factbook appealed to researchers, news organizations, teachers, students, and international travelers. Some readers even inquired whether their preferred geographic designation or world entity could be included on the high-profile site. Finally, only CIA insiders would know that officers donated some of their personal travel photos to The World Factbook, which hosted more than 5,000 photographs that were copyright-free for anyone to access and use. Though the World Factbook is gone, in the spirit of its global reach and legacy, we hope you will stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it… in person or virtually.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
Spotted

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d
As expected, #SCOTUS denies the emergency application to block California’s congressional redistricting—with no public dissents.

Among other things, this is also a good addition to the “be cynical but not nihilistic about the Court” file.
Screenshot of order denying emergency application, with no noted dissents.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 1d
Don't sleep on this resource. @janetbufton.ca and @tomgpalmer.bsky.social have created a deeply erudite one-stop on the biggest threat to liberalism of our times.
Your Comprehensive Guide to the Far Right: Part I
Understanding this rising threat to liberalism across the world is the first step to defeating it
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d
These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This is nonetheless more favorable terrain for Trump than for the American system. As New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote (here in The Post), “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Trump has for years stoked the idea that actually, having your own facts is fine. And even as his base chooses facts that he finds inconvenient in the moment, he’s still pushing toward the next phase: Everyone is entitled to the facts that Trump presents. What institutions of power will be left to disagree?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh, nice

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.

Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
So what’s the order of demolition? First comes the Arc de Trumph, then the nameplates on the Kennedy Center, then this?

(I assume the ballroom is going to call for something more careful than a wrecking ball.)

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d
The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 1d
It's noteworthy that the speaker for tomorrow's RGCS Lecture, Tom Ginsburg (Law and Political Science, University of Chicago) is cited a number of times in the report. He is the Faculty Director for Chicago's Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression.

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 1d
The overview of the recommendations from the Advisory Panel on Campus Expression's "Final report on campus expression at McGill University," a panel that included RGCS PhD student Rhona Goodarzi (Law) and RGCS faculty member Catherine Lu (Political Science).

www.mcgill.ca/president/si...

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d
the things that really stick in my craw about this- and not everybody on the anti-Stancil side is doing this- are the blithe and unquestioned assumptions that 1) violence is a good solution to this problem and 2) seniority in protest movements is what determines right-of-way for violence

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d
I really do not think that the “set fires” crew will ultimately be pleased with any implementation of a universal rule that if someone at a protest is acting in a way you feel might cause danger to you, you should assault them

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d
New @washingtonpost.com:

Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House

Officials are eying a spot by E St, north of the Ellipse

with the terrific @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social
Trump plans to install Christopher Columbus statue outside White House
The president has worked to recognize the explorer, saying Italian-Americans should “remember” Trump’s efforts when they go vote.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah I will say I spent a a lot of my life thinking I was being a sophisticated Marxist by condemning vulgar tendencies which saw particular capitalists and members of the ruling class as evil and the problem. No no, I would say, it is the system! Well, ok, maybe: but also they are evil turns out.
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My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
Been offline cleansing my IRL timeline.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
Is... is the implication that that's a lot?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/b...
Nestlé’s Chief Is in Turnaround Mode. He Drinks 8 Cups of Coffee a Day.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
the golden calf could only dream of such tackiness.

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‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste

When life gives you intergalactic lemons
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waste
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waste
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
I reiterate my view that American Beauty is a particularly bizarre choice for Hanania to keep using as “normal healthy heterosexuality.”
jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Nov 19
Plus, you know, Alan Ball, that renowned observer of healthy heterosexuality.

(Ball is obviously very smart and very talented, but American Beauty taken together with Six Feet Under suggests a perspective on straight people that I do not think straight people should want to accept as normative.)
britculpsapp.bsky.social ✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · Nov 18
MAN WHAT?

using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 2d
Your knowledge and experience are for a world where "protest" is a defined activity with unspoken codes and hierarchies. Where your authority is real. But once "normal" people are involved, when it's MASS protest, you're not in that world anymore! That stuff doesn't matter, or is actively harmful.

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 2d
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