“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...

Here now are all ten of my "rules" for writing about the history of philosophy combined as a single blog post. Hope they will be useful to students and teachers, even if only to prompt disagreement!

www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin...

#philsky #philosophy #writing #history

Este año lamentablemente vamos a testear qué tan inevitables son dos leyes de la física social peruana, y encima en simulltáneo: (1) el alcalde de Lima nunca logra obtener la presidencia, y (2) el que empieza liderando las encuestas, nunca gana.

Kind of hypothetical question: what happens with article 5 if the aggression to a NATO member is done by NATO's primus inter pares? Asking for a friend.

"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."

open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

A Mercosur-EU shared market is post-American Transatlanticism

New publication:

"Hegel and the Ethical Moment of the Pandemic".

In case one is interested in a critique of Mignolo's decoloniality:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arriving here later than I should have.