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“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” This question, asked by English writer Samuel Johnson in 1775, still touches a nerve today. Americans on the one hand carry the pride of one of the oldest sets of representative institutions in the
Kids, try not to do this. It's tedious. Just lay out the view you think is most defensible and defend it
"Yale history professor Timothy Snyder noted: 'That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial."
Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-3-2023?utm_campaign=post
In a special election today, voters reelected Tennessee state representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, whom the Republican supermajority in the state house voted on April 6 to expel for their participation in a demonstration in favor of gun safety. “Well, Mr. Speaker, the People have spoken,” Jones tweeted. The Tennessee legislature will convene on August 21 for a special session.
"The United States desperately needs institutional reform. We need to entrench voting rights. We need to replace the Electoral College with direct elections. We need to democratize the Senate. We need to eliminate the filibuster. We need to reform the Supreme Court.
But our Constitution is exceedingly difficult to change."
Many, many thanks to the Brennan Center and to Berkeley Law for the invitation to speak at this event. It’s really an honor to be here as part of the series, and also with this really distinguished…
I wrote up a blog post answering five big questions about Democracy for Busy People, including a bit about its lessons for our politics today.
#democracy #politics #politicalphilosophy #politicalscience #APSA
This was a truly excellent conversation between Matt McManus and @arossp about conservative political thought. It was particularly good on delineating different strands of it, how they've interacted historically, and where conservatism stands now.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-the-right-hates-equality-w-matthew
Listen now (54 min) | The right, as a philosophical project, has long sought to maintain the hierarchies equality threatens.
Listen now (54 min) | The right, as a philosophical project, has long sought to maintain the hierarchies equality threatens.
Adam Gurri
Onceoday 🩺🕊🏕
Zauberlehrling
Charlie McHenry
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️