It’s up! 🔥 I review various books on the origins and progress of equality by Darrin McMahon, Teresa M. Bejan, Paul Sagar, Branko Milanovic, David Lay Williams, with mentions of Thomas Piketty and @zeithistoriker. thenation.com/article/societ…

UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership (civiclife.unc.edu) is hiring several tenured and tenure-track positions this fall: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37722580/a… Review of applications begins Oct 4. (Ad is from last yr but is still live for this cycle until an updated ad is posted.)

Congratulations, Bruno! So very well deserved.

I wrote about the ancient origins of American ‘free speech fundamentalism’ for Persuasion. Lots of Cynics and Quakers (Mary Fisher!), some social science, and an autobiographical reflection or two. Many thanks to Yascha Mounk and @LukeHallam01 for the invitation.

Brilliant essay on free speech which gets beyond the 'liberal vs illiberal' binary 👏Teresa M. Bejan x.com/LukeHallam01/s…

📢 Oxford Political Thought Seminar | MON 28 OCTOBER - 17.00 Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth): 'Making Equality Strange: Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/darrin-m…

🧵 Dr. Mary Anne Franks claims that her new book "offers a different and bolder perspective on free speech that takes power, harm, and history seriously." So let's examine whether history supports her thesis that the First Amendment only protects the powerful.

Michael Oakeshott would like a word. Why Is It So Hard to Make a Robot Chef? nytimes.com/2024/12/22/bus…

I'm looking forward to reading this! Connor Grubaugh on "Rawls and the Rediscovery of Liberal Hope" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations, Connor, wonderful to see this in print!

Register now to join Musa al-Gharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke (Princeton University Press), in conversation with Teresa M. Bejan Oxford Politics and IR. All are welcome to attend. Wednesday 28 May Oriel College: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…

Very much looking forward to this discussion!

I'm officially in the UK to kick off the international leg of the We Have Never Been Woke book tour! I'll have events scheduled in #Oxford, #London, and #Buckingham. My travel is flexible -- if folks want to add additional stops while I'm in the neighborhood, contact my

On May 28, I'll be in conversation with Teresa M. Bejan at Oriel College: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…

Just finished Musa's excellent, bracing, and self-awarely "epic" book--really looking forward to our discussion!

Delighted to discuss the slipperiness of civility this morning on BBC In Our Time with John Gallagher and Phil Withington, featuring the wisdom of Hobbes, Roger Williams, and Bananarama. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

DPIR's Teresa M. Bejan joins Melvyn Bragg and guests on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to discuss ideas around our understanding of the meaning of civility: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…