Teresa M. Bejan
@tmbejan
Pol Theory Prof @Politics_Oxford & author of Mere Civility (Harvard 2017) http://bit.ly/MereCivility. Essays @ NYT, Atlantic, WaPo, &c. Writing on equality.
Is it too soon to re-up this? ted.com/talks/teresa_b… via @TEDTalks
DPIR's @tmbejan joins Melvyn Bragg and guests on @BBCRadio4's In Our Time to discuss ideas around our understanding of the meaning of civility: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Delighted to discuss the slipperiness of civility this morning on BBC In Our Time with @earlymodernjohn and Phil Withington, featuring the wisdom of Hobbes, Roger Williams, and Bananarama. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Just finished Musa's excellent, bracing, and self-awarely "epic" book--really looking forward to our discussion!
On May 28, I'll be in conversation with @tmbejan at @OrielOxford: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…
On May 28, I'll be in conversation with @tmbejan at @OrielOxford: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…
I'm officially in the UK to kick off the international leg of the We Have Never Been Woke book tour! I'll have events scheduled in #Oxford, #London, and #Buckingham. My travel is flexible -- if folks want to add additional stops while I'm in the neighborhood, contact my…
Very much looking forward to this discussion!
Register now to join @Musa_alGharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke (@PrincetonUPress), in conversation with @tmbejan @Politics_Oxford. All are welcome to attend. Wednesday 28 May @OrielOxford: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…
Register now to join @Musa_alGharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke (@PrincetonUPress), in conversation with @tmbejan @Politics_Oxford. All are welcome to attend. Wednesday 28 May @OrielOxford: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…
I'm looking forward to reading this! Connor Grubaugh on "Rawls and the Rediscovery of Liberal Hope" cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Pleased to see this piece out in public. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers @PoPpublicsphere and @tmbejan who encouraged me to keep pursuing this topic.
Congratulations, Connor, wonderful to see this in print!
Pleased to see this piece out in public. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers @PoPpublicsphere and @tmbejan who encouraged me to keep pursuing this topic.
Michael Oakeshott would like a word. Why Is It So Hard to Make a Robot Chef? nytimes.com/2024/12/22/bus…
🧵 @ma_franks claims that her new book "offers a different and bolder perspective on free speech that takes power, harm, and history seriously." So let's examine whether history supports her thesis that the First Amendment only protects the powerful.
📢 Oxford Political Thought Seminar | MON 28 OCTOBER - 17.00 Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth): 'Making Equality Strange: Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/darrin-m…
Brilliant essay on free speech which gets beyond the 'liberal vs illiberal' binary 👏@tmbejan x.com/LukeHallam01/s…
I wrote about the ancient origins of American ‘free speech fundamentalism’ for @JoinPersuasion. Lots of Cynics and Quakers (Mary Fisher!), some social science, and an autobiographical reflection or two. Many thanks to @Yascha_Mounk and @LukeHallam01 for the invitation.
Pleased to see this piece out in public. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers @PoPpublicsphere and @tmbejan who encouraged me to keep pursuing this topic.
Congratulations, Bruno! So very well deserved.
After 7 long years on the precarious academic job market, I'm over the moon and so incredibly relieved that next year I’ll be an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at Durham University 🥳
UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership (civiclife.unc.edu) is hiring several tenured and tenure-track positions this fall: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37722580/a… Review of applications begins Oct 4. (Ad is from last yr but is still live for this cycle until an updated ad is posted.)
It’s up! 🔥 I review various books on the origins and progress of equality by Darrin McMahon, @tmbejan, Paul Sagar, @BrankoMilan, @LayWilliams, with mentions of @PikettyWIL and @zeithistoriker. thenation.com/article/societ…