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On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, Pt. 3
Relatively quickly after the start of President Trump’s second administration, critics accused it of generating a constitutional crisis (see here in the…
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Newton and Nature does nothing in vain, pt. 4
Back in 1966 J.
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Social alienation and the aesthetic; William James (and Russell) on Pacifism
In “War as an Institution,” Bertrand Russell praises William James’ “admirable address on “The Moral Equivalent of War,” delivered to a congress of…
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On Bertrand Russell, Syndicalism and Political Diversity
In yesterday’s post (here), I noted that it is a characteristic feature of Bertrand’s Russell’s early political thought to unbundle government…
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Russell's Federative Imperialism
Yesterday’s post (here) on “War as an Institution” (1916) elicited comment from some readers about the nature of young Bertrand Russell’s proposed…
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On Bertrand Russell and Vital Energy; or on War and Human Rights
One of the most delicate problems of political thought is to criticize an attractive normative ideal while sharing in the underlying ambitions that give…
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February 2025

On Feudalism and Science Wars
It is a familiar fact from philosophy of science that often highly specialized sub-fields of the same discipline or different disciplines will use the…
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On Francis Bacon on Setler Colonialism and Slavery.
Bacon’s little essay, “Of Empire,” (originally from 1612) is really an essay on the monarchic, art of governing, that is, Machiavelli’s subject in The…
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On Gramsci and the failure(s) of Italian Liberalism
In Edward Said’s (1993) Culture & Imperialism, Gramsci plays an important role in the connection between Marxism and the study of imperialism from a…
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On Real Patterns, Inventory Control, and AI
It’s been almost two years since I last wrote about LLMs (recall here).
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On the economy of Care and Honor; On Justin Smith-Ruiu and maladapted male misfires
Reading in relatively recent feminism (recall my podcast on Serene Khader’s Faux Feminism; see also Kate Manne here) reminded me of the significance of…
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On the Empire State and Imperial Cities; Amsterdam and New Amsterdam
Imperialism is frequently thought of as a late nineteenth century phenomenon that was, perhaps, (at least partially) ended through decolonization.
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