Kye
@kyebarker.bsky.social
assistant professor of political theory | wonder in modern political thought | nature stuff | kansan | views my own | often confused | he/him
Charles I watching Trump speed run personal rule without consequence
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Charles I watching Trump speed run personal rule without consequence
Relevant www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
![I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side… bunk… we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont’ care)
Don’t you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us… that’s what babies do. It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women
We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don’t want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don’t deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don’t want an answer to this… I don’t want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But… On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself…
Mom](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:glcfzcgurezgmqp4zsr3drb4/bafkreiccxyo6peqafaruk6c7suy7tdefdscyyv4z4zy2tjvslp6tvnfugm@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Relevant www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
Government by goon squad
September 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Government by goon squad
I don't think that colleges should be pushing technology that their students use to cheat in their classes
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don't think that colleges should be pushing technology that their students use to cheat in their classes
The press probably shouldn’t make the case for fascism while interviewing the opposition.
August 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The press probably shouldn’t make the case for fascism while interviewing the opposition.
Summary of the academic summer: June, July, and August as Luxuria, Acedia, and Superbia
August 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Summary of the academic summer: June, July, and August as Luxuria, Acedia, and Superbia
From a Marxist perspective, AI boosterism is just the classic fantasy by venture capitalist vampires that constant capital can create value like variable capital, or, as Blade would say,
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
From a Marxist perspective, AI boosterism is just the classic fantasy by venture capitalist vampires that constant capital can create value like variable capital, or, as Blade would say,
The White House assault on academic free speech can’t be a first amendment violation when it is based on arbitrary power and not a law by congress
June 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The White House assault on academic free speech can’t be a first amendment violation when it is based on arbitrary power and not a law by congress
Please stop making the vegetarian option gluten free. That bread is gross.
May 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Please stop making the vegetarian option gluten free. That bread is gross.
Rousseau on acquired needs remains undefeated
May 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Rousseau on acquired needs remains undefeated
teaching william morris means that i get to go absolutely nuts with walter crane art in my lecture slides
April 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
teaching william morris means that i get to go absolutely nuts with walter crane art in my lecture slides
Adam Smith on the danger of princes who see themselves as sovereign from The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, section 2, chapter 2:
March 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Adam Smith on the danger of princes who see themselves as sovereign from The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, section 2, chapter 2:
Yep. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book II, chapter 2:
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Yep. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book II, chapter 2:
Rousseau when he thinks about people having a nice dance party around a big tree
March 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Rousseau when he thinks about people having a nice dance party around a big tree
Every news story about AI is a recruiting tool for General Ludd
February 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Every news story about AI is a recruiting tool for General Ludd
Me thinking about the fate of hubris in Greek tragedy
February 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Me thinking about the fate of hubris in Greek tragedy
There was a time in my life when I did not know that J.G.A. Pocock wrote an unpublished essay about Tom Bombadil, but that time is now over.
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...
February 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
There was a time in my life when I did not know that J.G.A. Pocock wrote an unpublished essay about Tom Bombadil, but that time is now over.
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...
Again, to overlook Nietzsche's absolute rejection of modern democracy and the roots for this rejection in the rest of his thought you must overlook things that he actually wrote. There are certainly uses of his thinking for democratic ends, but that doesn't change the texts themselves.
February 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Again, to overlook Nietzsche's absolute rejection of modern democracy and the roots for this rejection in the rest of his thought you must overlook things that he actually wrote. There are certainly uses of his thinking for democratic ends, but that doesn't change the texts themselves.