Good words from Aaron Damiani

You could write the same article about C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Alan Bloom, and Harold Bloom and title it "Classical education is a bust" tinyurl.com/ywv3bydh

When dissertation life and dad life collide, Gandhi picks a vulnerable moment to make his point, and Siri struggles to keep up. 😬👨‍🍼

Proud of Sam Schmitt 🇺🇸 for designing and implementing a practical class in Political Theory. You think about it. Then you learn it by living it. Then you think again about what you did. It's called theory. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Just submitted a complete draft of my PhD thesis: "How Political Action Shapes the Actor: The Political Theory of Martin Luther King Jr." If all goes well, there's going to be a Dr. Harris on the job market soon! micahharris.com

Thesis defended! Y'all, I'm trading my ABD in for a PhD!

Just signed the publication contract for my first peer-reviewed journal article! “Noah Webster and the Influence of Rousseau on Education in America, 1785 - 1835” Thank you especially to Alex Oprea, Thomas W. Merrill, Benjamin Kleinerman, and Justin B. Litke for coaching me through the process!

An afterword on Dr. King's villains. And a note about what kind of person our society promotes to the top. realclearhistory.com/articles/2025/…

Duke Political Science is accepting submissions for a Frontiers Workshop in Democratic Theory! Please share widely!

On the podcast today, Micah Harris, PhD reads his short story "The Dead Hand." Listen to the episode: bit.ly/4f41lkw or read in our current issue: bit.ly/3GLfhmT

I am now a nuclear expert! Someone said so on TV. (Interview begins at 3:33.) spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sa…

Congratulations to Micah Harris, PhD (CUA Ph.D.) on his new article, "Emiles and Sophies: How Noah Webster Educated America’s Youth Like Characters from Rousseau," published in the History of Political Thought!

Rousseau had more influence in early America than we thought! See my new HPT article, "Emiles and Sophies: How Noah Webster Educated America’s Youth Like Characters from Rousseau." doi.org/10.53765/20512…

Some of the references for a book chapter I submitted yesterday.

We're holding a Cognitive Liberty conference at Duke, March 5-7. Keynote speeches by Arthur Brooks and Iain McGilchrist. Do you know scholars or graduate students who would be interested? transformativeideas.duke.edu/events/cogniti…

So . . . we chat about how my book builds a conversation across political boundaries. Then the host builds energy to hold people through the commercial break with "liberalism is a mental disorder. Come back . . ." Sigh goo.gl/DRwNZR