Kristen Collins

kristenrosec.bsky.social

20 October 2026 16:36

Extremely good point! From many accounts you wouldn’t know that she calls out the power of private companies, calls segregationist America “liberal in name only,” or distinguishes her approach from “obsessive ideologies which concentrate solely on the notion of totalitarianism”

Benjamin McKean

blmckean.bsky.social

20 October 2026 16:36

also people reduce that essay to its title and it's way more complicated than that (as I was reminded when I tried to teach it in Intro to Political Theory!)

Kristen Collins

kristenrosec.bsky.social

20 October 2026 16:13

A few years ago I was just excited Judith Shklar was getting more attention, now I am just completely annoyed with how often people reduce her work to her arguments in “Liberalism of Fear.” If you’re gonna read just one piece that’s fair, but it ends up giving such a narrow view of her philosophy

Matt Ford

mford.bsky.social

18 October 2026 15:36

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Kevin Hell-iott

kjephd.bsky.social

17 October 2026 17:49

This is not a surprising finding—it's been replicated endlessly that deliberation has effects like this on its *direct* participants. The issue with leveraging this effect has always been scale. It's unclear how deliberation could be made to depolarize mass publics (w/o an institutional revolution)