Jason S. Canon
@uncanonical.net
Peripatetic American in Cambridge. PhD work on empathy and democracy.
An easy way to reduce narcissism in politics: empower more women.
@adamgrant.bsky.social in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
@adamgrant.bsky.social in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
December 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
An easy way to reduce narcissism in politics: empower more women.
@adamgrant.bsky.social in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
@adamgrant.bsky.social in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Trump is guilty of many crimes. Among the worst: this typographical atrocity.
December 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Trump is guilty of many crimes. Among the worst: this typographical atrocity.
Christmastime in England
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Christmastime in England
Now this is an abstract.
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Now this is an abstract.
Who's doing the best work at the moment on Charles Mills?
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Who's doing the best work at the moment on Charles Mills?
Put this, from @hannahritchie.bsky.social, on my tombstone.
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Put this, from @hannahritchie.bsky.social, on my tombstone.
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This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
british cowboy: *rides off into the sunset at 3:47pm*
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
british cowboy: *rides off into the sunset at 3:47pm*
The scene that taught Sorkin to overuse shouting has something more important to teach. Good post from @smotus.bsky.social
Rob Reiner took the lawless hero — Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, Batman — and reminded us that this is actually the bad guy. It’s a lesson worth remembering today.
Rob Reiner reminded us that lawless authoritarians are bad
The unconventional but needed message of "A Few Good Men"
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The scene that taught Sorkin to overuse shouting has something more important to teach. Good post from @smotus.bsky.social
Next stop: imaginary numbers
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Next stop: imaginary numbers
Come for the cake, stay for the vegan strip club. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
From Oregon, a Chocolate Cake That Changes Hearts and Minds
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Come for the cake, stay for the vegan strip club. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
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Many such cases.
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Many such cases.
The things you stumble upon here.
December 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The things you stumble upon here.
Louvre pulling out all the stops for this exhibition of book covers.
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Louvre pulling out all the stops for this exhibition of book covers.
Looking forward to reading this.
I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/political-meritocracy-in-the-21st-century/AACAB43634DBE4476BD4F2E6A1C78298?utm_date=20251128&utm_id=1764310759&utm_campaign=CLAS,Elements,Humanities,IOC&utm_sou...
t.co
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Looking forward to reading this.
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Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
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if they get him with milk next it's battery
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
if they get him with milk next it's battery
Jon Stewart on His Faith (or Lack Thereof) | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory
If I ever write a Doctor Who episode, it'll be about the 11 days so damning that the Church wiped them from historical memory.
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If I ever write a Doctor Who episode, it'll be about the 11 days so damning that the Church wiped them from historical memory.
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Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.
Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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you guys aren't thinking this through. if the GOP renege on any part of this deal they'll look like shameful hypocrites!
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
you guys aren't thinking this through. if the GOP renege on any part of this deal they'll look like shameful hypocrites!
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫