@nazpatel.bsky.social
Scribbles on political philosophy- multiculturalism, immigration and religious diversity. Lover of the beautiful game and literature. (he/him)
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Happy to share some recent research on the NDP and the working class (with @mattpolacko.bsky.social and @sjkiss.bsky.social) in the latest Perspectives magazine.
perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...
perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...
The Changing Class Basis of Canadian and Social Democratic Futures | Perspectives Journal
Elements of a redistributive and working-class agenda are already in demand, but many voters and especially the working class, feel politically alienated and disaffected that their interests are not b...
perspectivesjournal.ca
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Happy to share some recent research on the NDP and the working class (with @mattpolacko.bsky.social and @sjkiss.bsky.social) in the latest Perspectives magazine.
perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...
perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...
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I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. So let’s end the holiday weekend with my 252nd! Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 252 (11/30/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. So let’s end the holiday weeke...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. So let’s end the holiday weekend with my 252nd! Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift
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King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift - CCPA
For the first time since 1977, and the third time ever, the monarch of the British empire appeared before Canada’s parliament to read the speech from the throne to open a parliamentary session.
www.policyalternatives.ca
June 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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I would apply for this job if I didn't have the best job in the world.
And if I knew anything about tax!
And if I knew anything about tax!
🆕 Please repost: The new🍁Canadian Tax Observatory seeks a visionary Founding CEO! 🆕
Canada’s tax system is contributing to economic inequality - help drive a national conversation on tax fairness.
Learn more + apply 👇
#EconSky #TaxPolicy #TaxSky #CdnPoli
Canada’s tax system is contributing to economic inequality - help drive a national conversation on tax fairness.
Learn more + apply 👇
#EconSky #TaxPolicy #TaxSky #CdnPoli
New Canadian Tax Observatory seeks visionary founding CEO
Social Capital Partners and other funders announce a new, non-partisan, nonprofit Canadian organization to lead an informed national conversation on the links between taxation, economic fairness and a...
socialcapitalpartners.ca
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I would apply for this job if I didn't have the best job in the world.
And if I knew anything about tax!
And if I knew anything about tax!
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This is a super insightful thread.
Canadians must think much more strategically about our interests in a world where the US has lost is primacy in Europe and where its power and credibility globally evaporate a bit more every day.
Canadians must think much more strategically about our interests in a world where the US has lost is primacy in Europe and where its power and credibility globally evaporate a bit more every day.
We're seeing a lot of very rapid geopolitical and geo-economic thinking going on right now in Europe about what the end of the US alliance means for its security, economy & diplomacy.
I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US.
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I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US.
(Brief) 🧵
April 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is a super insightful thread.
Canadians must think much more strategically about our interests in a world where the US has lost is primacy in Europe and where its power and credibility globally evaporate a bit more every day.
Canadians must think much more strategically about our interests in a world where the US has lost is primacy in Europe and where its power and credibility globally evaporate a bit more every day.
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Relieved to hear that Francesca Albanese has been renewed for 3 more years as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights/Palestine, despite aggressive efforts to silence her. Note to governments: truth triumphs, Palestinian lives & rights matter.
April 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Relieved to hear that Francesca Albanese has been renewed for 3 more years as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights/Palestine, despite aggressive efforts to silence her. Note to governments: truth triumphs, Palestinian lives & rights matter.
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For those with institutional access: This book appears to now be available electronically.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
April 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
For those with institutional access: This book appears to now be available electronically.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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My modest contribution to the recent online discussion on whether Fukuyama is good, actually.
“The end of history is no longer something to be longed for, but something to be avoided through deliberate blood sacrifice.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyama-fai...
Fukuyama Fails to Answer the Basic Questions of Liberal Political Theory
Francis Fukuyama seeks to promote liberal democracy, but from underneath his own feet the specter of illiberalism reproduces itself.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My modest contribution to the recent online discussion on whether Fukuyama is good, actually.
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“As much as my dad called himself a nationalist, he was also a fierce protector of Canada’s sovereignty — he dedicated his life to its defence.”
To My Late Father, Mel Hurtig: We Need You Now | The Tyee
His passionate work for Canadian sovereignty offers lessons for how to respond to the political moment.
thetyee.ca
March 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“As much as my dad called himself a nationalist, he was also a fierce protector of Canada’s sovereignty — he dedicated his life to its defence.”
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This paragraph definitely jumped out.
Translation: “Why should other countries have sovereignty?! It’s not fair, and it’s not fine!”
Translation: “Why should other countries have sovereignty?! It’s not fair, and it’s not fine!”
March 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This paragraph definitely jumped out.
Translation: “Why should other countries have sovereignty?! It’s not fair, and it’s not fine!”
Translation: “Why should other countries have sovereignty?! It’s not fair, and it’s not fine!”
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Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment. Canada must fiercely defend the integrity of its cherished universal health-care system. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment. Canada must fiercely defend the integrity of its cherished universal health-care system. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social
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I’m Canadian - so my opinion should carry no weight as we respect the sovereignty of the USA. That said - YOU NEED TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT!
March 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’m Canadian - so my opinion should carry no weight as we respect the sovereignty of the USA. That said - YOU NEED TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT!
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Nick Cowen and I were right about Trump.
Unfortunately.
Unfortunately.
Hayek versus Trump: The Radical Right’s Road to Serfdom | Polity: Vol 52, No 2
Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom has been interpreted as a general warning against state intervention in the economy.1 We review this argument in conjunction with Hayek’s later work and discern an institut...
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March 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Nick Cowen and I were right about Trump.
Unfortunately.
Unfortunately.
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Is there a reason why Danielle Smith is traveling to Florida on taxpayers’ dime to participate in a far-right talk show that routinely has its content removed for hate speech?
www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
#ableg
www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
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March 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Is there a reason why Danielle Smith is traveling to Florida on taxpayers’ dime to participate in a far-right talk show that routinely has its content removed for hate speech?
www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
#ableg
www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
#ableg
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Philosopher Joe Heath (Toronto) on why the Democrats need a project 2029.
Opinion | Democrats Need Their Own Version of Project 2025
A call for a reform project that is ambitious, radical and iconoclastic yet grounded in a genuine desire to fix the problems of American governance.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Philosopher Joe Heath (Toronto) on why the Democrats need a project 2029.
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Well done, Mike Myers
March 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Well done, Mike Myers
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Hard to miss the irreparable harm for #USAID employees tonight. Watch this litigation, and the foreign aid freeze cases - it isn’t over yet…
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
February 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Hard to miss the irreparable harm for #USAID employees tonight. Watch this litigation, and the foreign aid freeze cases - it isn’t over yet…
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
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Team Canada usually plays hockey like it needs it, but this was different. At this hinge point of history, at this moment of uncertainty, Canada really needed this one. It felt good to win. www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...
Bruce Arthur: Canada’s 4 Nations win over U.S. transcends hockey. We’re keeping our country and, at least for now, our game too
Beating the United States in 2010 or 2014 was one thing: beating this America, right now, was something else, writes Bruce Arthur.
www.thestar.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Team Canada usually plays hockey like it needs it, but this was different. At this hinge point of history, at this moment of uncertainty, Canada really needed this one. It felt good to win. www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...
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Perhaps our greatest contemporary thinker on democracy.
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Perhaps our greatest contemporary thinker on democracy.
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Political philosopher Joseph Heath with a thought-provoking analysis of the USA crisis as fuelled by flaws inherent to the USA constitution, and why Dems are caught bw rock & hardplace
Observations on the U.S. constitutional crisis
I’m a bit surprised that Pierre Trudeau’s famous “sleeping with an elephant” speech has not been getting more play in recent weeks:
josephheath.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Political philosopher Joseph Heath with a thought-provoking analysis of the USA crisis as fuelled by flaws inherent to the USA constitution, and why Dems are caught bw rock & hardplace
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Excerpted and adapted from Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge - What it will take to deal with American decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis
In some ways, Donald Trump resembles the heroes of our “neoliberal stories”: a filthy rich entrepreneur who took what he wanted and rolled over those who stood in his way. “He could have been written by Ayn Rand, on a bad day,” writes @alexhim.bsky.social. thewalrus.ca/common-sense-pol...
February 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excerpted and adapted from Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge - What it will take to deal with American decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis