Daragh Grant
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
My reconstruction of the treaty is attached. 2/3
March 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My reconstruction of the treaty is attached. 2/3
There is a senate joint resolution (SJ 16) before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly pertaining to the Treaty of Hartford (1638), and its provisions enjoining the extermination of the Pequot people. Below is my testimony. 1/3
March 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There is a senate joint resolution (SJ 16) before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly pertaining to the Treaty of Hartford (1638), and its provisions enjoining the extermination of the Pequot people. Below is my testimony. 1/3
There is, I think, a way to conceive of Stuart Hall’s diagnosis of the Left’s ills through an idiom by which Wittgenstein took issue with much of what passed for philosophy. 1/5
January 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There is, I think, a way to conceive of Stuart Hall’s diagnosis of the Left’s ills through an idiom by which Wittgenstein took issue with much of what passed for philosophy. 1/5
The model student: Russell on Moore on Wittgenstein—“[Moore] says he always feels W. /must/ be right when they disagree. He says during his lectures W. always looks frightfully puzzled, but nobody else does.”
January 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The model student: Russell on Moore on Wittgenstein—“[Moore] says he always feels W. /must/ be right when they disagree. He says during his lectures W. always looks frightfully puzzled, but nobody else does.”
First effort at Melissa Clark’s Sticky Cranberry Gingerbread. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
December 11, 2024 at 5:57 AM
First effort at Melissa Clark’s Sticky Cranberry Gingerbread. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
A little casual tariff-proofing…
December 8, 2024 at 11:02 PM
A little casual tariff-proofing…
Picked up a newer find, and older aspirations, at the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Plenty to be thankful for here, including the two takes on Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Picked up a newer find, and older aspirations, at the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Plenty to be thankful for here, including the two takes on Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.
I think about this line about once a week these days. Great line.
November 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I think about this line about once a week these days. Great line.
This, from Constantin’s Fasolt’s “History, Law, and Justice: Empirical Method and Conceptual Confusion in the History of Law,” (UC Irvine Law Review, 2015) is the best thing I have read on what it means to tell the truth about the past. (About 20 pages separate the last image from the others).
November 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
This, from Constantin’s Fasolt’s “History, Law, and Justice: Empirical Method and Conceptual Confusion in the History of Law,” (UC Irvine Law Review, 2015) is the best thing I have read on what it means to tell the truth about the past. (About 20 pages separate the last image from the others).
Beautiful opening to Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: “Stuart has accompanied me through these years, living as he does in my mind and my dreams, my favorite photograph of him watching over me at my desk, his books all around me. I’m in dialogue with the dead, writing through the feelings.”
November 22, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Beautiful opening to Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: “Stuart has accompanied me through these years, living as he does in my mind and my dreams, my favorite photograph of him watching over me at my desk, his books all around me. I’m in dialogue with the dead, writing through the feelings.”
Only thing that could make this prettier would be a nice cluster of tents, filled with bright, energetic people trying to forge the pathway into a better future.
November 21, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Only thing that could make this prettier would be a nice cluster of tents, filled with bright, energetic people trying to forge the pathway into a better future.
It’s pretty, to be sure, but also pretty ridiculous.
November 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM
It’s pretty, to be sure, but also pretty ridiculous.
This coat—and the strong and quiet man who wore it as he carried bags of coal past the front window of my house; this was the herald angel of an Irish Christmas in the 1980s. Aside from her acute moral vision, I’m always astonished by Claire Keegan’s ability to revive this era.
November 19, 2024 at 1:49 AM
This coat—and the strong and quiet man who wore it as he carried bags of coal past the front window of my house; this was the herald angel of an Irish Christmas in the 1980s. Aside from her acute moral vision, I’m always astonished by Claire Keegan’s ability to revive this era.
A compelling account, from David Scott, of the shallowness with which the work of Orlando Patterson has been treated (Guilty as charged!) and the enduring yield that it has to offer.
November 16, 2024 at 8:48 PM
A compelling account, from David Scott, of the shallowness with which the work of Orlando Patterson has been treated (Guilty as charged!) and the enduring yield that it has to offer.
People might reasonably accuse me of trying to take a leaf out of David Scott’s book, but this is ridiculous…
November 16, 2024 at 6:28 PM
People might reasonably accuse me of trying to take a leaf out of David Scott’s book, but this is ridiculous…
Stuart Hall is, to my mind, among the sharpest observers of the everyday inadequacy, and yet the utter indispensability of the university as a site for critical intellectual work: “I commend the vocation of the intellectual life in this sense to you. … 1/5
November 14, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Stuart Hall is, to my mind, among the sharpest observers of the everyday inadequacy, and yet the utter indispensability of the university as a site for critical intellectual work: “I commend the vocation of the intellectual life in this sense to you. … 1/5
Colleagues in Political Science: please consider signing this petition calling for an immediate ceasefire. You can sign at www.polisciceasefire.com.
November 13, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Colleagues in Political Science: please consider signing this petition calling for an immediate ceasefire. You can sign at www.polisciceasefire.com.
It might be difficult to accept, but it is part of our humanity to fail to live up to our ideal of the human being; even inhumanity is an expression of our humanity. But confronting this fact is essential if we are to honor—especially in conflict—the dignity of all human beings.
October 24, 2023 at 4:36 PM
It might be difficult to accept, but it is part of our humanity to fail to live up to our ideal of the human being; even inhumanity is an expression of our humanity. But confronting this fact is essential if we are to honor—especially in conflict—the dignity of all human beings.
The gloaming, in the 19th coolest neighborhood in the world (apparently).
October 23, 2023 at 12:26 AM
The gloaming, in the 19th coolest neighborhood in the world (apparently).
Devastated to hear about the death of Sinéad O’Connor. In 1990s Ireland, she was a relatively lonely voice crying out against the dominance and violence of the Catholic Church. A fierce talent who wore her demons on her sleeve, for better or worse. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
July 26, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Devastated to hear about the death of Sinéad O’Connor. In 1990s Ireland, she was a relatively lonely voice crying out against the dominance and violence of the Catholic Church. A fierce talent who wore her demons on her sleeve, for better or worse. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.