Limber Limpet

great 🧵 identifying yet another textual problem with the unitary executive.

Per Justice Thomas, 18c dictionaries had a verb meaning “to assign for EXCLUSIVE use”—ie, the exact thing imperial presidency fans wish the vesting clause said.

But that verb was NOT “to vest.” It was “to appropriate.” 🤔

02.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 67    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 2

New Working Paper:

Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.

Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

30.06.2025 15:39 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

Mark Pennington Foucault and Liberal Political Economy

Got my copy!

18.06.2025 19:15 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥

"Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
(maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...)

maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!

08.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 48    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 3

New Villages have no cultural significance, says historian Teo Kok Seong argues against Unesco heritage status for New Villages, saying their culture lacks distinctiveness and simply mirrors other Chinese settlements.

I am late catching up on this fascinating controversy in Malaysia. The Malaysian government had planned to submit the New Villages (where rural Chinese were forced to move during the Communist insurgency) as a World Heritage Site. Controversy ensued 1/3

www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...

05.06.2025 02:00 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

is that the one that bears shrapnel wounds from when the law school was bombed?

15.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This feels like a useful thing to read in the era of "sending people with tattoos to a torture camp in el salvador to die"

From “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture" by Oswaldo Zavala

12.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 60    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

To the Bottom of the Unknown to Discover the New | Los Angeles Review of Books Ronjaunee Chatterjee speaks with Nathan Brown about his new translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil.”

A lovely interview about what looks as if it could be a marvellous new translation of Les Fleurs du mal: lareviewofbooks.org/article/to-t...

09.04.2025 20:01 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.

Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

07.04.2025 00:38 — 👍 2565    🔁 991    💬 68    📌 76

Joshua Habgood-Coote, Collective Action, Work, and Partial Plans - PhilPapers Philosophers of action have for the most part ignored work as a case of collective action. Michael Bratman’s distinction between shared co-operative activity and prepackaged co-operation goes further,...

My 'what Marxists have to teach Michael Bratman' paper has finally made it through peer review philpapers.org/rec/HABCAW

11.03.2025 10:34 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0