Emily Kidd White

for everyone asking: screenshots from this New Yorker essay!

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy to send it through from Toronto, Josh, if that is still allowed..

A big night for Trey Yesavage 🔥

The Blue Jays pitcher broke the rookie World Series record with 12 strikeouts.

Remembering Jonathan Lear remembering Bernard Williams.

At the 2004 American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social, Lear delivered a speech in honour of his recently departed teacher and friend.

I've written whole papers inspired by these words. home.uchicago.edu/jlear/docs/P...

YouTube video by de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture "Plato and the Body"

Heartbroken to learn that the marvelous Jonathan Lear has left us. I'll always cherish his gorgeous writings. Here is his incredibly beautiful paper, "Ironic Eros: Notes on a Fantastic Pregnancy" from a workshop on Plato and the Body @notredame.bsky.social

youtu.be/GXpPb6rqk2Q

This is the reality of Trump’s America: Your neighbors are being abducted, disappeared, and killed; free speech is an arrest-able offense; children and a FIFTH of the nation’s capitol are set to go hungry next month, and the president is busy demolishing the East Wing.

When Stephen Miller goes on TV to tell ICE agents they have “federal immunity,” he is soliciting this kind of lawless violence

Hi folks,

I have made the interesting life decision to teach a seminar on US Legal Thought for the first time.

I welcome sample syllabi and reading recommendations.

I especially welcome tips on contemporary conservative thought (beyond originalism and law & econ).

Thanks!

Richard Re’s, “The One Big Question”

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Opinion | The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes

I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later "What a sick world." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids.

What has happened since has been as bad, if not worse, than experts warned on Sept. 8.

We (collectively) should be funding 100x the PhDs we do now. 1000x? More? The problems are infinite, we could devote so many minds to producing knowledge, and it’s a choice to strip this place to the bones, quash human inquiry, and devote so little for human flourishing

Be the dude barefoot in pajamas yelling at ICE you want to see in the world

Check out vacancy for Chair in Federalism and Democracy @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social !

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

One food bank in Virginia saw a 65% increase in visitors since last year, more than at the height of the pandemic.

“We thought it would come back down and it hasn’t,” the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer said. “It keeps growing.”

(Published Oct. 3)

I just laughed out loud because I can so clearly picture you doing this.

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

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Proud to join this group of 39 Brown University alumni who are law professors in urging the university to reject the Trump-Vance presidency's enforced loyalty "compact": drive.google.com/file/d/1COIp...

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

It was incredibly moving to hear Prof Nickel and other non-citizen professors testify in court about the ways in which the arrests and deportations of students had affected them and their colleagues. So grateful to them for their integrity and courage. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Authority (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Large social groups face many grave problems, such as violence, injustice, disorder, public bads, and war, that require a coordinated collective response. Because disagreement about the nature of and…

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Authority (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) buff.ly/w9ytliU

Legal Theory Blog Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

Legal Theory Blog is at legaltheoryblog.com. The Legal Theory Lexicon is at legaltheorylexicon.com. Thanks in advance for you help.

Legal Theory Blog Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

As @akapczynski.bsky.social wrote last January, "we’ll now see arguments that clinics should stop any kind of public interest work that might make a 'statement.' This, of course, would be a violation of the academic freedom, while also undermining important ways that our schools serve the public."

U.S. used a transnational crime unit to secretly target campus protesters A Tufts University graduate student was among those targeted after the Trump administration created a “tiger team” to investigate pro-Palestinian activists.

Excellent that Judge Young's ruling has spurred journalists to dig into the trial transcripts. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...