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Jacobin is now read primarily by people who didn't learn anything from Bernie's defeats and actively do not want to learn anything It shouldn't surprise anyone that it's full to the brim with cope

Asking "which Jacobin article prompted you to tweet this" is like asking which country started World War I In so far as you can give an answer it conceals more than it reveals

This trend where academics write entire books about theorists they think are bad so as to warn people about them/help the state manage their followers is not good for theory It's voyeuristic & primarily concerned w/managing an other. Similar to 19th c. anthropology

We wouldn't need to distinguish between the moral and the political if moral theories were sensitive to political context. When morality comes to appear unnatural in politics, a distinction is erected to protect politics from naivete

‼️Did We Learn Nothing? (w/ Benjamin Studebaker)‼️ "Who does [Bernie Sanders] talk to all day? Like, who does he hang out with all day? Who are the people around him? Who are the people who work for politicians in campaigns? They're overwhelmingly university educated people." "I

The norm here is to use individuals as negative examples and dunk on them Let's try violating that norm! Let's talk about social problems in a more general way without sacrificing particular people on a digital alter

1/4 SCMP: "China has become the leading debt collector of developing countries, shifting from a net capital provider, “as bills coming due from its belt and road lending surge in the 2010s now far outstrip new loan disbursements”." sc.mp/gtrfe?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

"[Republicans] are deliberately trying to remind their base that the Democrats & the left are defenders of Harvard. Now...I think that the treatment of international students & protesters on university campuses is appalling, but it's also a trap....It's a trap to get us to talk

In his latest piece, @bmstudebaker suggests that the concept of individual sovereignty points beyond itself. In his federal system, a plurality of citizen self-understandings become possible: streitcouncil.org/post/why-feder…

People worry way too much about World War III, but perhaps not enough about Cold War II

My biggest intellectual pet peeve? People who try to force other people to adopt their definitions No, we don't have to conceptualize terms the way they do I don't care if they read a book where somebody famous used the word that way Nobody is in charge of words

When populism is just marketing for technocracy and technocracy can only be legitimated through populism, everything feels dishonest and nothing is ever properly discussed

The debate within the Democratic Party is not about whether to pursue populism or abundance - it's about whether to sell abundance with populism

A lovely review of my first book, The Way is Shut, by Chapman Matis: e3w.dwrl.utexas.edu/issues/volume-…

You know what made Yes Minister a great show? Its ability to take up the tension between the bureaucrats & the politicians from both sides simultaneously Many people are only able to take up one side of it or can adopt the other perspective only with great difficulty

I have a new piece out with Marginalia Review of Books comparing and contrasting the work of the late Alasdair MacIntyre with the work of the still-living Raymond Geuss: marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/two-ships…

It was after a theology professor exposed me to MacIntyre that I got inspired to write about the intersections of faith & postmodern culture…which eventually gave birth to Cracks in PoMo. To honor his legacy we asked Benjamin Studebaker to write about him. substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

Really nice reflection Marginalia Review of Books on Alasdair MacIntyre & Raymond Geuss, their convergences and departures by Benjamin Studebaker. Link below.