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Samuel Moyn
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Samuel Aaron Moyn is the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, previously the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, which he joined in July 2017. He was a professor of history at Columbia University for thirteen years and a professor of history and of law at Harvard University for three years. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies. .. more

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History 23%

Is hegemony planned dad?

Apparently gerontocracy is also a philosophical phenomenon www.ft.com/content/9f89...
Jürgen Habermas: Germany’s political and cultural phenomenon
Two new books bring fresh insights into the philosopher who has towered over seven decades of German public life
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This one was fun to write: did 2025 put a final stake thru the heart of the process school? Or was it maybe the beginning of a revival? (Take our course this spring for more!) @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | The Year America Blew Up the Process
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Trump 1.0: “The big cases … went ‘one for you, one for me,’ which … help[ed] bolster the court’s legitimacy” (Lee Epstein).

Trump 2.0: The court gave Trump an L once in a great while, which

A/ sufficed for a big enough audience to breathe a sigh of relief.
B/ fooled no one.

Let’s see which it is.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

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The Cambridge History of Rights by Samuel Moyn and Meredith Terretta
A comprehensive and authoritative examination of rights-making in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
📚 https://cup.org/4pQar8Y

#humanrights

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Very consequentially!

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The Odyssey | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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Awesome. Challenging. Respectful (more than we were to him). I so admire Steve’s public role, and persona — even when I don’t share it, let alone his exact views.
"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order."

Me in today's issue of "One First":
198. Progressive Judicial Institutionalism
There's important daylight between those who are critical of the present degree of judicial power in the United States in general and those who are critical of the current Supreme Court, specifically.
www.stevevladeck.com
"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order."

Me in today's issue of "One First":
198. Progressive Judicial Institutionalism
There's important daylight between those who are critical of the present degree of judicial power in the United States in general and those who are critical of the current Supreme Court, specifically.
www.stevevladeck.com

Nice, Chris! More charitably, the claim was that liberals should dwell on the actual threat of obsolete policies that had led to our defeat and would again. (Did that happen?) And there's widespread agreement that Trump 2017 and 2025 differ-though I suppose a legitimate question about how much.

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i enjoy checking in on a post from the previous day and looking to see how many people lost their minds and immediately began imputing the worst faith motives and assuming the worst possible interpretations

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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
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