The AAUP, echoing Mill in 1915: "the dangers connected tendency of modern democracy is for men to think alike, to feel alike, and to speak alike... Public opinion is at once the chief safeguard of a democracy, and the chief menace to the real liberty of the individual."

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

“This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features…they appear to me…frightful…among other deformities, it has an awful squinting: it squints towards monarchy…your President may easily become King.” - Patrick Henry

www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

Uh anyone have this cease and desist letter he says they sent Democrats because I have some First Amendment concerns...

It is a hostile and political act to tell costumers how much things cost

Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and I are thrilled with the cover for our book, Somebody Should Do Something

The release date is 9/16, but you can do preorders now

mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

#CoverReveal #Bookstagram @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social tein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

@georgetownlaw.bsky.social's great dean, Bill Treanor, posted on LinkedIn a letter he co-signed with 78 law deans protesting Trump memos targeting law firms-a stronger letter than the ABA's pablum. Deans of most T10 schools are not among them, which is disappointing. www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

This is a cool thing, featuring one of my colleagues and one of our students:

www.cla.purdue.edu/news/college...

Interesting findings! In line with @danwphilosophy.bsky.social's excellent work on the marketplace of rationalizations - conspiracy theories might work to rationalize antidemocratic attitudes that are already there, and that's why people adopt them.

it probably doesn't need saying, but for those concerned that federal aid mostly used to address foreign health issues abroad has been cut with the dismantling of USAID, there are real ways for ordinary people to step up and fill the new gaps:

www.givewell.org/charities/to...

Deadline approaching.

PPEL folks: Cool conference happening in Bangalore, India. About a year from now. Consider submitting an abstract. More information here:

ppel.tenureslack.com

Purdue is hiring in PPE again!

Ad: philjobs.org/job/show/27822

@roberttalisse.bsky.social and I had a nice conversation about Private Censorship on the excellent New Books in Philosophy Podcast. You can listen here:

newbooksnetwork.com/private-cens...

Interested in workplace speech? Consider submitting to this special issue of Philosophy of Management, cfp here:

link.springer.com/journal/4092...

Purdue is hiring (multiple lines) in PPE:

careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/2...

Happy to answer any questions!

aristotle's alright and everything but 🤣

My first book, Private Censorship, has just arrived and is also available online here:

academic.oup.com/book/49409?s...

Not bad for a first post.