Jacob T. Levy

@jacobtlevy
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Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and Chair, Political Science, McGill. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Ctr. Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies. Author, Rationalism, Pluralism, & Freedom. Opinions are only my own; I do not speak for any of these institutions.
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Jacob T. LevyJul 4, 2023
Will RobinsonJul 4, 2023

One of the many things that bothers me about white supremacists is their revisionist history of the Civil War. "Ol' Bobby Lee" was a gentleman and wasn't "that bad" on slavery. Well, 160 years ago TODAY the retreating Confederate Army kidnapped over 1000 Black people in PA and MD and took them to Virginia for enslavement. Few know about this, but it was a war crime on top of the tragedy of Gettysburg.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/How-Confederates-Kidnapped-and-Enslaved-Blacks-at-Gettysburg

Jacob T. LevyJun 28, 2023

David A.Bell in the Chronicle, against the practice of academic departments adopting political positions and statements (and against the pressure on them to do so). Paywalled.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/where-does-your-department-stand-on-abortion-antiracism-immigration

Where Does Your Department Stand on Abortion? Antiracism? Immigration?

Departments, programs, and schools are issuing statements on a host of political issues. That’s a mistake.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jacob T. LevyJun 28, 2023

Lauren Hall Lilly remembers Steve Horwitz.

https://radicalmoderatesguide.substack.com/p/two-years-in-memoriam-steve-horwitz

Two Years In Memoriam: Steve Horwitz

People matter, first and foremost

The Radical Moderate's Guide to Life
Jacob T. LevyJun 9, 2023
Liberal CurrentsJun 9, 2023
"The contention that #liberalism can, but invariably will, be combined with other convictions is ironically both uncontroversial and sure to generate a great deal of controversy." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/understanding-liberalism-in-moral-terms-michael-walzers-the-struggle-for-decent-politics/
Jacob T. LevyJun 9, 2023

I'm in Glasgow celebrating Adam Smith's 300th birthday. Inhonor of the occasion, one from the archives.

Honoring the Dishonorable Part 1: The Dishonorable Dead

https://www.niskanencenter.org/honoring-the-dishonorable-part-1-the-dishonorable-dead/

Honoring the Dishonorable Part 1: The Dishonorable Dead - Niskanen Center

The temptation to honor dishonorable rulers, corrupts not only our memory of the past but our politics in the present.

Niskanen Center - Improving Policy, Advancing Moderation
Jacob T. LevyJun 5, 2023
@kjhealy Come on, an X-Men spec script is the likeliest thing for you to be writing; you can't blame the device for that assumption.
Jacob T. LevyJun 3, 2023
Stuart EldenJun 3, 2023

G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, 1819-1820, trans. Alan Brudner, University of Toronto Press, April 2023
https://utorontopress.com/9781487533540/lectures-on-the-philosophy-of-right-1819-and-x20131820/

@philosophy @politicaltheory @intellectualhistory

University of Toronto Press - Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, 1819–1820

Published in 1821, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is considered the definitive articulation of the legal, moral, social, and political philosophy of G.W...

University of Toronto Press
Jacob T. LevyJun 3, 2023

When I saw the trailer for Asteroid City, I half-believed that it was one of those over-the-top internet jokes: "What if Wes Anderson made Armageddon"?

I like Anderson, but this movie looks like a lot of a lot of his schtick.

Jacob T. LevyJun 3, 2023
In a single episode, Mrs. Maisel has in-vitro fertilization in 1961, and college study abroad behind the Iron Curtain in 1951. Sigh.
Jacob T. LevyMay 21, 2023
Show threadTorbjörn BjörkmanMay 20, 2023

@jacobtlevy I've always been curious, in what sense is a pod cast, really? Like a shadow, a vote or a bronze?

Maybe like a spell?
[starts hearing Screamin' Jay Hawkins singing "I put a pod on you"]
... or maybe not