Patrick Giamario
@gennaionpseudos.bsky.social
I teach and write about political theory. I wrote Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity (EUP 2022) and am currently working on a new book on Plato's noble lie.
Views expressed here are not those of my employer.
Views expressed here are not those of my employer.
If this is how it shakes out, some combination of House, Senate, and NY Dems need to orchestrate Schumer’s removal as leader. Someone who so brazenly and repeatedly breaks faith with his party’s own voters cannot lead the party into 2026.
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If this is how it shakes out, some combination of House, Senate, and NY Dems need to orchestrate Schumer’s removal as leader. Someone who so brazenly and repeatedly breaks faith with his party’s own voters cannot lead the party into 2026.
You can’t pick a shutdown fight over healthcare premiums, get nothing for that fight, provide the votes to reopen, and then still have the high ground on healthcare premiums!
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
You can’t pick a shutdown fight over healthcare premiums, get nothing for that fight, provide the votes to reopen, and then still have the high ground on healthcare premiums!
One thing I find endearing about Mamdani is that even if he had no other principles, spite alone could have powered him through the whole campaign. He's a true New Yorker.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
One thing I find endearing about Mamdani is that even if he had no other principles, spite alone could have powered him through the whole campaign. He's a true New Yorker.
Hardly the biggest news of the night, but voters in my Greensboro city council district gave the boot to our cartoonishly corrupt councilman and gave the job to a young, progressive community organizer!
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hardly the biggest news of the night, but voters in my Greensboro city council district gave the boot to our cartoonishly corrupt councilman and gave the job to a young, progressive community organizer!
The NYT's Cheney obituary is predictably appalling. Cheney was the mastermind behind two Middle East wars which claimed, conservatively, hundreds of thousands of lives ("the cause of democracy"), and his administration presided over the worst recession in 80 years ("a robust economy").
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The NYT's Cheney obituary is predictably appalling. Cheney was the mastermind behind two Middle East wars which claimed, conservatively, hundreds of thousands of lives ("the cause of democracy"), and his administration presided over the worst recession in 80 years ("a robust economy").
I think it's safe to say that Ezra is repeating the same mistake he admitted to making re: the Iraq War.
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I think it's safe to say that Ezra is repeating the same mistake he admitted to making re: the Iraq War.
These are the kinds of headlines a subscription to your local legacy newspaper gets you these days. Ugh.
July 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
These are the kinds of headlines a subscription to your local legacy newspaper gets you these days. Ugh.
I love how in its message announcing accommodations for non-US/Canadian scholars this year, APSA identifies all the other major, long-known problems with its conference model that they are specifically refusing to address.
April 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I love how in its message announcing accommodations for non-US/Canadian scholars this year, APSA identifies all the other major, long-known problems with its conference model that they are specifically refusing to address.
Fucking vicious lol
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Fucking vicious lol
No, the base is demanding (1) accountability from Dem Party electeds for how we got in this mess; (2) public, meaningful displays of commitment to the people and institutions most in danger; and (3) a principled, imaginative, compelling strategy for winning back power and wielding it effectively.
February 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
No, the base is demanding (1) accountability from Dem Party electeds for how we got in this mess; (2) public, meaningful displays of commitment to the people and institutions most in danger; and (3) a principled, imaginative, compelling strategy for winning back power and wielding it effectively.
Lysistrata has had enough of Hesiod’s misogyny.
February 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Lysistrata has had enough of Hesiod’s misogyny.
What a paragraph.
"A pollster to the candidate who just lost told top Democratic Party officials on Friday that they must confront Trump far differently than they did during his first term when they successfully defeated him and his party twice".
Why are they listening to this person!?
"A pollster to the candidate who just lost told top Democratic Party officials on Friday that they must confront Trump far differently than they did during his first term when they successfully defeated him and his party twice".
Why are they listening to this person!?
December 13, 2024 at 8:30 PM
What a paragraph.
"A pollster to the candidate who just lost told top Democratic Party officials on Friday that they must confront Trump far differently than they did during his first term when they successfully defeated him and his party twice".
Why are they listening to this person!?
"A pollster to the candidate who just lost told top Democratic Party officials on Friday that they must confront Trump far differently than they did during his first term when they successfully defeated him and his party twice".
Why are they listening to this person!?
I don’t know how anyone who claims
to possess any degree of political awareness of the last 15 years could prattle on about “what’s required to win” as if this is some static, knowable thing rather than a set of relatively open-ended conditions waiting to be determined and then built around!
to possess any degree of political awareness of the last 15 years could prattle on about “what’s required to win” as if this is some static, knowable thing rather than a set of relatively open-ended conditions waiting to be determined and then built around!
November 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I don’t know how anyone who claims
to possess any degree of political awareness of the last 15 years could prattle on about “what’s required to win” as if this is some static, knowable thing rather than a set of relatively open-ended conditions waiting to be determined and then built around!
to possess any degree of political awareness of the last 15 years could prattle on about “what’s required to win” as if this is some static, knowable thing rather than a set of relatively open-ended conditions waiting to be determined and then built around!