Sam Schmitt
@schmitttheory.bsky.social
Religion & Liberalism // UNC-CH Political Theory Ph.D Cand. // MA Phil // Trane, Ostrom, Tolkien, Hobbes, Stump, Bach, Quincy, Vulf // Soy Boy // Music Here
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My initial comments on today's big ruling in our case against Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, with key excerpts from the decision: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
We Won Our Tariff Case!
The US Court of International Trade just issued a unanimous ruling in the case against Trump's "liberation day" tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center
reason.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My initial comments on today's big ruling in our case against Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, with key excerpts from the decision: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Now available open access at JSTOR as a chapter (rather than having to download the pdf of the whole book)
Jacob T. Levy, Academic Freedom as Freedom of Complex Association, in Nandini Ramanujam & Frédéric Mégret, eds., Academic Freedom in a Plural World, CEU Press
www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...
Jacob T. Levy, Academic Freedom as Freedom of Complex Association, in Nandini Ramanujam & Frédéric Mégret, eds., Academic Freedom in a Plural World, CEU Press
www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...
www.jstor.org
May 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Now available open access at JSTOR as a chapter (rather than having to download the pdf of the whole book)
Jacob T. Levy, Academic Freedom as Freedom of Complex Association, in Nandini Ramanujam & Frédéric Mégret, eds., Academic Freedom in a Plural World, CEU Press
www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...
Jacob T. Levy, Academic Freedom as Freedom of Complex Association, in Nandini Ramanujam & Frédéric Mégret, eds., Academic Freedom in a Plural World, CEU Press
www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...
Gotta say I've been here a few days and Bsky isn't beating the accusations
May 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Gotta say I've been here a few days and Bsky isn't beating the accusations
I know there are more important things going on but please turn the volume down on your devices or wear headphones.
The problem is no longer limited to boomers.
The problem is no longer limited to boomers.
May 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I know there are more important things going on but please turn the volume down on your devices or wear headphones.
The problem is no longer limited to boomers.
The problem is no longer limited to boomers.
Pitch for a reality TV show: we just document how hard it already is to become a citizen and people think, gee, maybe this should be easier?
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Pitch for a reality TV show: we just document how hard it already is to become a citizen and people think, gee, maybe this should be easier?
The Fearless Flyers V
The Fearless Flyers · Album · 2025 · 8 songs
open.spotify.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I know that we’ve had a month worth of further constitutional crises but Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody in El Salvador and that central crisis is a continuing fact.
The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.
5/
5/
May 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I know that we’ve had a month worth of further constitutional crises but Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody in El Salvador and that central crisis is a continuing fact.
I am back on here with a freshly minted PhD and a postdoc at Brown.
May 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I am back on here with a freshly minted PhD and a postdoc at Brown.
Here's something cool: I solicited Spotify Wrapped playlists from a bunch of friends and then compiled their top 5 songs into a playlist. Great way to mix up your listening. Enjoy!
open.spotify.com/playlist/7F9...
open.spotify.com/playlist/7F9...
Top Fives
Playlist · Sam Schmitt · 135 items · 1 saves
open.spotify.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Here's something cool: I solicited Spotify Wrapped playlists from a bunch of friends and then compiled their top 5 songs into a playlist. Great way to mix up your listening. Enjoy!
open.spotify.com/playlist/7F9...
open.spotify.com/playlist/7F9...
Are you in a Christmas music rut? Look no further because this giant nerd listened to a ton and made a list of 50 great albums and created playlists for your convenience. Enjoy
thegoodsofsamslife.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/t...
(the other place hates links, so this didn't do any numbers.)
thegoodsofsamslife.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/t...
(the other place hates links, so this didn't do any numbers.)
The Christmas Music Compendium
If you want music without commentary, scroll down. Jacob Collier demonstrates how to show off and make something beautiful at the same time. (I mean, who gets nominated for a Grammy for arranging T…
thegoodsofsamslife.wordpress.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Are you in a Christmas music rut? Look no further because this giant nerd listened to a ton and made a list of 50 great albums and created playlists for your convenience. Enjoy
thegoodsofsamslife.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/t...
(the other place hates links, so this didn't do any numbers.)
thegoodsofsamslife.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/t...
(the other place hates links, so this didn't do any numbers.)
A philosopher walks in the bathroom
November 22, 2024 at 5:20 PM
A philosopher walks in the bathroom
Switching between here and Twitter, this place has a less feral vibe and I don't know if I like it.
I also don't know if I am broken inside because I can't tell if I prefer here or the feral place
I also don't know if I am broken inside because I can't tell if I prefer here or the feral place
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Switching between here and Twitter, this place has a less feral vibe and I don't know if I like it.
I also don't know if I am broken inside because I can't tell if I prefer here or the feral place
I also don't know if I am broken inside because I can't tell if I prefer here or the feral place
Apparently so many academics are leaving Twitter that it is better to post here?
November 13, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Apparently so many academics are leaving Twitter that it is better to post here?
When you have to crush it but you also have doubts and you want to dance.
open.spotify.com/track/1Tr4K5...
open.spotify.com/track/1Tr4K5...
October 24, 2023 at 1:04 PM
When you have to crush it but you also have doubts and you want to dance.
open.spotify.com/track/1Tr4K5...
open.spotify.com/track/1Tr4K5...
Excellent new (instrumental) Andrew Bird album for a dreary October day.
open.spotify.com/album/1ap3xR...
open.spotify.com/album/1ap3xR...
October 12, 2023 at 2:50 PM
Excellent new (instrumental) Andrew Bird album for a dreary October day.
open.spotify.com/album/1ap3xR...
open.spotify.com/album/1ap3xR...
Every time I check in here, half the posts are criticizing Elon.
Honestly, it isn't terrible.
Honestly, it isn't terrible.
October 8, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Every time I check in here, half the posts are criticizing Elon.
Honestly, it isn't terrible.
Honestly, it isn't terrible.
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Observers: Hanania is pretty racist.
All too many people: Oh, no, he's an enlightened centrist?
Old Hanania material: I'm REALLY REALLY racist.
ATMP: either a) crickets chirping or b) ah well nevertheless or c) the wokesters made me ally with him.
1/
All too many people: Oh, no, he's an enlightened centrist?
Old Hanania material: I'm REALLY REALLY racist.
ATMP: either a) crickets chirping or b) ah well nevertheless or c) the wokesters made me ally with him.
1/
August 5, 2023 at 11:59 AM
Observers: Hanania is pretty racist.
All too many people: Oh, no, he's an enlightened centrist?
Old Hanania material: I'm REALLY REALLY racist.
ATMP: either a) crickets chirping or b) ah well nevertheless or c) the wokesters made me ally with him.
1/
All too many people: Oh, no, he's an enlightened centrist?
Old Hanania material: I'm REALLY REALLY racist.
ATMP: either a) crickets chirping or b) ah well nevertheless or c) the wokesters made me ally with him.
1/
Getting a PhD is pretty awesome in ways I didn't expect, but cool AF epigraphs were definitely on my to-do list. Academics: What are your favorite epigraphs in your own work?
Mine (so far): juxtaposition of Voltaire's Royal Exchange and Luke Comb's Back 40 Back.
Mine (so far): juxtaposition of Voltaire's Royal Exchange and Luke Comb's Back 40 Back.
July 9, 2023 at 11:33 AM
Getting a PhD is pretty awesome in ways I didn't expect, but cool AF epigraphs were definitely on my to-do list. Academics: What are your favorite epigraphs in your own work?
Mine (so far): juxtaposition of Voltaire's Royal Exchange and Luke Comb's Back 40 Back.
Mine (so far): juxtaposition of Voltaire's Royal Exchange and Luke Comb's Back 40 Back.
So far the strongest genre of post here is the critique of other networks. We have to move on eventually, right?
July 9, 2023 at 10:25 AM
So far the strongest genre of post here is the critique of other networks. We have to move on eventually, right?
I'm starting to think BS is better than Twitter.
July 9, 2023 at 1:46 AM
I'm starting to think BS is better than Twitter.
Aaaand Saturday morning back at the writing desk. This chapter WILL be finished before I go on vacation in a week.
July 8, 2023 at 12:37 PM
Aaaand Saturday morning back at the writing desk. This chapter WILL be finished before I go on vacation in a week.
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I am both glad and mildly concerned about the relatively fine-grained filtering mechanisms on here.
Glad because filtering/moderation is one of the crucial services SocMed has to offer.
Concerned because mucking it up has terrible consequences. (note: not doing it all has terrible consequences!)
Glad because filtering/moderation is one of the crucial services SocMed has to offer.
Concerned because mucking it up has terrible consequences. (note: not doing it all has terrible consequences!)
July 4, 2023 at 6:20 PM
I am both glad and mildly concerned about the relatively fine-grained filtering mechanisms on here.
Glad because filtering/moderation is one of the crucial services SocMed has to offer.
Concerned because mucking it up has terrible consequences. (note: not doing it all has terrible consequences!)
Glad because filtering/moderation is one of the crucial services SocMed has to offer.
Concerned because mucking it up has terrible consequences. (note: not doing it all has terrible consequences!)
Glad to be here. I'm a PhD candidate in political theory at UNC-Chapel Hill working at the intersection of religion and market-oriented liberalism.
I also post long threads about the virtues of Taylor Swift's music on occasion.
So, you know, I give the people what they want.
I also post long threads about the virtues of Taylor Swift's music on occasion.
So, you know, I give the people what they want.
July 4, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Glad to be here. I'm a PhD candidate in political theory at UNC-Chapel Hill working at the intersection of religion and market-oriented liberalism.
I also post long threads about the virtues of Taylor Swift's music on occasion.
So, you know, I give the people what they want.
I also post long threads about the virtues of Taylor Swift's music on occasion.
So, you know, I give the people what they want.