Probably one of the most important economic books of our time, redefining the meaning of freedom. Negative freedom of cold war liberals replaced with FDR's concept of 'positive' freedoms. Great review.
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So Harvey Mansfield taught his last class at Harvard. Took his course almost 50 years ago. He was a mesmerizing teacher. A few stories from that time. + harvardmagazine.com/2023/04/harvey…

Bravo Oren!

I always thought of him as Yoda, because he was so much in the habit of saying wise, surprising, and profound things to his eager graduate students. Best wishes for what comes next, Professor!

Good frame!

Martin Loughlin on militant constitutionalism vs democratising democracy approaches. With thought- provoking conclusion.👇

Breaking Point lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘In the 𝘍𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴, Alexander Hamilton claimed that the judiciary “will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the constitution”. This is not now the case.’

Martin Loughlin on the US Supreme Court: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Look whom I met: the rising star of public law ⁦Oren Tamir⁩ . Zoe’s is Mark Tushnet’s favorite Chinese restaurant in Cambridge.

Guest lectured in Prof.Grzegorz Ekiert’s Harvard class The Authoritarian Turn in East Central Europe and what can be done about it, with brilliant ⁦Wojciech Sadurski⁩. Good discussion! ⁦Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies⁩

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A populist backlash to globalization has ushered in nationalist governments and challenged core features of the Liberal International Order. Lawrence Broz UC San Diego UCSD Political Science discusses these trends across the United States and Europe, and demonstrates that populist support…

The U.S. News specialty rankings are basically meaningless, but I’m still glad there is no ranking for student understanding of First Amendment law.

This is alarming!

📚 Just published! The Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, edited by Natasha Lindstaedt Jeroen Van den Bosch, and featuring chapters by 20+ scholars. 🤩

Details: elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

Having returned from a whirlwind tour of 9 intense days of meetings in Beijing, reflecting on my discussion with Xi Jinping:

I have some exciting personal news.

Not only does my @hurstpublishers book PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE have a cover, but you can now also pre-order it from one of my favourite bookshops!

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Warm welcome in Beijing

The Pearl of Shanghai

Doing some field work in Bejing