Such an amazing event last year and the program for this year looks excellent!
07.08.2025 01:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@alexgphilosophy.bsky.social
Philosopher at Rutgers University. Author of Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections (OUP, 2024). Interested in political philosophy, ethics, democratic innovation, neglected philosophical traditions, Seahawks, Sonics, poetry. Check out lottocracy.org!
Such an amazing event last year and the program for this year looks excellent!
07.08.2025 01:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In both cases, the lottery can help!
www.amazon.com/dp/019893898...
Looking forward to this!
20.03.2025 19:55 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hey, cool that you are reading it! Email me if youโd like me to Zoom in to answer student questionsโฆ
01.03.2025 18:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...
Look, I've seen the Dark Crystal. I know what this is about. Elon the Skeksi better be evaporated during the conjunction ceremony...
www.sciencealert.com/a-rare-align...
From our new issue -
How can we accept โourโ decisions?: an experimental study on lottocracy, epistocracy, and electoral democracy - cup.org/42iOEhz
- Akito Yamaguchi, Masaki Hata & Akira Inoue
#jjps
Check out my new podcast on Lottocracy with Alex Guerrero: open.substack.com/pub/drpaulze...
21.01.2025 14:44 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Would love to be added! Thanks!
30.01.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0More details, including about how to apply (by Feb 1) are available on the site.
sites.google.com/wellesley.ed...
Funding support is available.
Apply to NEWLAMP! Deadline February 1.
NEWLAMP is an annual workshop aimed at helping professors integrate under-represented philosophical traditions into their syllabi. The 2025 workshop will be held from June 23-27 at Wellesley and focus on African social and political philosophy.
Please help spread the word in the USA! #unifyUSA is revving up! open.substack.com/pub/drpaulze...
08.01.2025 13:47 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Whoa, weโre halfway there
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Can't wait to discover this new platform to discuss the role of citizens in addressing our democratic future!
Would you like to learn more about our work? Here is a short introduction for you๐
On @serenekhader.bsky.social's Faux Feminism and Social Hierarchy. With a link to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's piece in Teen Vogue
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-faux-fe...
Call for Papers: The Association for Social and Political Conference Annual Meeting, University of Glasgow, 15-16 July 2025... Now PhilEvents Official!
philevents.org/event/show/1...
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!
Sorry, bad link: balkin.blogspot.com/2024/12/thin...
04.01.2025 18:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Harvard Law Prof Mark Tushnet on Lottocracy & Splitsville: โTwo of the best books about constitutional design Iโve read recentlyโฆZurn and Guerrero arenโt interested in expanding the Overton window, theyโre in favor of smashing the window and its frame completely."
balkin.blogspot.com/2024/12/thinkiโฆ
If you can't get enough 2024-in-review, check out extended versions of Josh & Ray's conversations with @dailynous.com editor Justin Weinberg, CNN legal analyst @eliehonig.bsky.social, and Rutgers philosopher @alexgphilosophy.bsky.social at our website: www.philosophytalk.org/shows/examined-year-2024
02.01.2025 16:29 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wonderful piece on citizensโ assemblies and in particular the citizensโ assembly in Bend, Oregon.
What Could Citizensโ Assemblies Do for American Politics? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Excellent reporting on how the Cuban govt military dept GAESA has billions that could be used for urgent aid but is instead being used (through GAESA owned Almest and Gaviota) to invest in tourism. Crony communist corruption, not egalitarianism, rules the island.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
It was great fun to be interviewed about lottocracy on the Philosophy Talk year in review episode. Available now for downloadโฆ
30.12.2024 15:23 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0TODAY: Josh and Ray examine The Year in Philosophy with @dailynous.com, The Year in Political Unaccountability with @eliehonig.bsky.social, and The Year in Democracy (Without Elections) with @alexgphilosophy.bsky.social โ 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & at www.kalw.org/show/philoso....
29.12.2024 13:51 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Lottocracy on Philosophy Talk on Sunday!
27.12.2024 16:41 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yes, possibly! I talk about this option in the book but also in this paper: static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/101...
17.12.2024 00:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is a great piece. I have long thought that complaints about overpunitive โcancellationโ ring hollow, as the perpetrators almost never acknowledge their own wrongdoing, apologize, take steps to restore, or even forswear future misconduct.
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-canc...
Excellent! I knew someone had to be on the case. Thanks!
16.12.2024 23:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Someone should write a dissertation (or at least a think piece) about how different weird animals become popular with kids (and others): narwhal, axolotl, now capybaraโฆ
16.12.2024 23:27 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0It remains somewhat unclear what the โnormโ is. dailynous.com/2015/04/21/w...
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