Jacob T. Levy

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

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Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
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Jacob T. Levy is an American political theorist and Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University. Levy is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at McGill, as well as the coordinator of McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies and the founding director of McGill's Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. Levy is also a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and the Institute for Humane Studies. He is known for his expertise on multiculturalism, liberalism, and pluralism. .. more

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails | Athena Kugblenu

You really want me to review my buy? Yes, it was fine. But that is where I would like our relationship to end, says comedian Athena Kugblenu

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4h

Getting a head start on next year’s progression after 6-7?

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mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/a-christma...

A Christmas Message Unworthy of the Office

Why This Post Crosses a Line

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4h

True on both counts. :-)

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4h

Our snow lover is happy.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 4h

the point of naming names isn't to be personal or punitive, it's that they clearly just don't understand the enemy & can't lead the fight against them

www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.

Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 10h

Oh god Google Scholar has an AI search function now. I don't fucking want it. Does anyone remember how printed citation indexes worked in case we need them again?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo

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Brendan Kelly @brendanfromndg.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks to the McGill News for including my book Habs Nation in their list of books recently published by McGill grads. Nothing but fond memories of my McGill years. There was an Economics B.A. but the learning came at the McGill Daily offices where I figured out the journalism game.

Holiday reading options

Here are some recent books by (or about) McGill grads for you to consider.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 21h

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

So long, American exceptionalism

For the first time, investors are talking about ‘US risk’

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

I was there for the 70s and boy howdy was it another country

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

“This was a major pop hit from a widely-beloved singer regarded as wholesome and cuddly, reaching #3 on the charts and played constantly on FM top 40 stations” and jeez, man, the 70s

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

The Coward of the County is an unacknowledged forerunner of the genre “Women in Refrigerators” (tm @gailsimone.bsky.social ) in this essay I will

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h

come on, people, this was a good joke.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

A thousand engineers on the job trying to overcome their frustration that the ones they ordered as kids didn't work.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Others at Cato are doing very important and valuable work pushing back against this moment of demonizing immigrants and children of immigrants, but Doug Bandow has found the Miller-Trumpiest possible framing for his decades-old takes on Korea, throwing gasoline onto the current fire.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect I like it too much to want to hear Russell Crowe butcher his songs!

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I also haven't gotten around to Les Miz, and so I can't say which side of the divide in opinion about it I'll fall on, but that at least seems like the right way to use him, unlike Scoop or Real Steel.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I still haven't gotten around to The Prestige but by reputation that was a pretty big early-career exception to the rule.

He just hasn't been in *that* many movies overall! He returns to the stage for years at a time.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

But mustn't call them deplorable.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein got rich by being extremely good at fraud. Which means that if you were just friends with him because of the $$$ and not the "girls," IT'S STILL REALLY BAD! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

What to Know About the Origins of Jeffrey Epstein’s Wealth

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to linger on this but it is important... while the sex trafficking and abuse allegations against Epstein are by far the most serious elements of the (metaphorical) indictment, it's also necessary to remember that he was a thief and a fraud. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Chomsky, Epstein, and the responsibility of intellectuals

Burning down houses and raping their female inhabitants is the kind of imperialist standard operating procedure that Chomsky spent his life condemning in East Timor, in Iraq, in El Salvador. But when ...

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.

A drill shaped thing wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper

Me holding a toblerone taped to a bottle of Baileys

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.

Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree

The president amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Whereas Die Hard [1] is dated, above all, by Hans Gruber’s regular references to reading printed magazines.

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