Michael L. Frazer

Trump 2.0: What's next? UofG Spotlight · Episode

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Revisit what was predicted and compare it to what’s unfolding now by listening to the episode with our guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & @jkaarbo.bsky.social.

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Michael Frazer performing stand-up comedy at The Stand, Glasgow. There is a sign for Bright Club Glasgow.

If you like jokes about the Scottish Enlightenment, you'll love my local stand-up debut.
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Time to drop the really big bomb:
Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
Have a nice day!

Any ideas where a teenager should send a short story for consideration for publication or prizes or something like that?

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Pete Hegseth yesterday: "Nobody was texting war plans."

Well sure if you don't consider minute-by-minute details including what kind of planes and when missiles are launched "war plans" then we're cool

a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is pointing at the camera ALT: a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is pointing at the camera

Any ideas who Waltz intended to include in the chat when he accidentally added Jeff Goldberg? I have my theories...

Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference 2025 The Association for Social and Political Philosophy and the University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences are happy to announce that the next Annual Conference of the ASPP will be held...

Reminder: The deadline for paper and panel proposals is TODAY. Hope to see lots of you at this great conference in Glasgow on July 15!

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Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference 2025 The Association for Social and Political Philosophy and the University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences are happy to announce that the next Annual Conference of the ASPP will be held...

There's still time to submit your proposals before the Monday deadline!

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🇲🇹 Malta: "Kant" Must Be Removed From Miriana's Eurovision Entry - Eurovoix The European Broadcasting Union has stated that "Kant" has to be removed from its entry for Eurovision 2025.

I've gotten giggles when lecturing on the categorical imperative with my New York accent. Apparently the Maltese accent creates similar issues. Either that, or the EBU are all hardcore empiricists and consequentialists. #Kant #Eurovision
eurovoix.com/2025/03/04/k...

Stuck in the middle with you... and John Swinney and Thomas Reid.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2496609...

My favourite detail: The spiritual experience that brought "Rabbi Binyamin" to what he considers Judaism was a high school production of "Fiddler on the Roof." Oy.

Synagogue of shame: The converts being coerced and exploited by the British ‘rabbi’ who follows Jesus - The Jewish Chronicle Andrew Sheldrake – known to his followers as Rabbi Binyamin – has attracted scores of disciples

The Jewish community in Norwich is tiny, so this strange group was unavoidable when we lived there. Disturbed to learn that it's probably a dangerous cult and not just a weird example of cultural appropriation.

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Not to spoil anything, but we here in #Glasgow were very pleased with our shout-out in the latest #Severance.

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Have you already listened to our latest episode of #UofGSpotlight on the return of Trump?

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Featuring hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social & @kezdugdale.bsky.social with guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & @jkaarbo.bsky.social.

Stopped hiding in West Wing boxset to confront reality for our new @uofgpolicy.bsky.social #UofGSpotlight podcast. Fascinating political philosophy insights from @michaelfrazer.bsky.social & I discuss leadership style with the always brilliant Prof @jkaarbo.bsky.social. Well worth a listen!

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Hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and @kezdugdale.bsky.social are joined by expert guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social and @jkaarbo.bsky.social to discuss the return of President Donald Trump and what's next for US and global politics.

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...fascinating insights from our guests @michaelfrazer.bsky.social, Lecturer in Politics at @uofgsps.bsky.social, and @jkaarbo.bsky.social Professor of Foreign Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and founding co-director of @scga.bsky.social.

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Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference 2025 The Association for Social and Political Philosophy and the University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences are happy to announce that the next Annual Conference of the ASPP will be held...

Call for Papers: The Association for Social and Political Conference Annual Meeting, University of Glasgow, 15-16 July 2025... Now PhilEvents Official!

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Social/Political Philosophers/Theorists,

The Association for Social and Political Philosophy will be meeting in Glasgow this July. Please see the call for papers below. And please share widely!

This should be of interest to any social scientist who ever had trouble with ethics review, and any ethicist who ever wondered why ethics review has so little to do with ethics. It was a great workshop which I was proud to attend. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

🎄🎅 From tomorrow until Christmas we'll post a sovereignty-themed advent calendar. After all Levia-clause is sovereign! He makes law determining who is naughty or nice and dispenses justice, giving gifts to some and punishing the others (taking away bad kids to the forest, in some traditions).

Yes, I think they meant terms like "river," "sea," "Palestine" and (most interesting for me as a political theorist) "free," but that chant also contains the contested terms "from," "to," and (most interesting to philosophers) "will be."

Looks like the University of Sydney will need a philosopher to co-teach every course, interrupting the main lecture to “make the meaning of contested words and phrases clear." amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

University of Essex to cut 200 jobs amid £29m shortfall The University of Essex says it faces a

Last few days of university redundancy news:
*Essex
*Leeds Trinity
*Leicester
*Loughborough
*Sheffield
*Sussex
*UEA
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Death of a feminist legend A scholarship student from Epsom Girls became one of the most acclaimed feminist thinkers in America but died tragically young

Hard to believe that it was 20 years ago that feminist political philosopher Susan Moller Okin died at only 57 years old.

It was a bracing professional and personal loss.

New newspaper article about her just published, including reflections from her family. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/25/d...

A letter on Philosophy & Public Affairs letterhead that reads: November 12, 1973 Professor Robert Nozick Department of Philosophy Emerson Hall Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Dear Professor Nozick, I have been meaning to send you a note ever since you did not telephone the second time last week just to say that I decided after all to drop the offending post-apostrophes from the possessive of Rawls. This is, as I told you, according to the Chicago Manual of Style an honor due only to Moses and Jesus, but with us aesthetic considerations won out. The decision puts us somewhat in a class by ourselves -- I note that in Brian Barry's new book he and Oxford Press write Rawls's -- but I don't mind being different. I trust that you will not. sincerely， Margot Cutter

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

D&D alignment chart for modern German-Jewish thinkers. Top row: Hermann Cohen, Franz Kafka, Martin Buber as lawful, neutral, and chaotic good. Middle row: Franz Rosenzweig, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin as lawful, neutral, and chaotic neutral. Bottom row: Theodor Adorno, Leo Strauss, and Gershom Scholem as lawful, neutral, and chaotic evil.

modern German-Jewish thought alignment chart, come at me.

(bonus points if you can figure out which of their perspectives the chart is true from)