Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー
@tomaashby
Historian @UTokyo_News • @JSPS_sns Fellow, nominated @BritishAcademy_ • Reviews Editor @Global_IH • Co-org @gpolthought • Ph.D. @EUI_EU
After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@QMUL) is now published @Global_IH tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmHPT) & @tomaashby (@UTokyo_News), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first such piece our journal! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Also people need to suffer through the whole essay. I'm not giving you the cheat code.
Unpopular opinion: The converse is precisely why a great essay needs no formal conclusion, only a reflection rooted in the whole, an insightful point or parable priorly given sense to the attentive reader. Conclusions are only *necessary* for bad arguers, logicians, and Germans.
I feel that we need a Your Party (Provisional Central Committee) to hold a couple of decades of programmatic debates before it actually launches
Not fond of posting here but una tantum: So very happy and excited to share that I’ve been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to join the @Warburg_News for the next three years!🎉
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Walter Benjamin on the searching, discontinuous nature of memory. From Jeremy Eichler's Time's Echo (2023)
I am happy that the paperback of "Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions" is now available! Get a copy and chat with me, or to impress your in-laws! 😊 a.co/d/al0rW31
"Perhaps the worst name for a discipline ever is Intellectual History". Nevertheless I'm happy to now be an Associate Director of @StAndrewsIIH whose new @rbpod_ih podcast starts with Richard Whatmore on why 18th century Scotland contains solutions to the problems of the present.
🔊 Episode #1 out now! Intellectual Historian Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) explains why the Enlightenment, 18th century republicanism and the history of free states matter for today’s global politics. Listen and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
I've decided to leave the Labour Party, after over 31 years of membership. Here are a few thoughts on why I've come to this conclusion, which may be of interest to others who find themselves rethinking their own political attachments and affiliations. substack.com/home/post/p-16…
In the early modern Ottoman Empire, the most valued tulips featured long, pointed petals and slender forms in contrast to the rounded varieties preferred in Europe. 🌷
One of the policy ideas I've really shifted on: I think government should use every opportunity it has to get people exercising, even just moderately (e.g., active travel). FWIW though, local authorities do subsidise gym and fitness centres - though imv they should be palatial.
There's a parallel universe where the NHS is the UK's largest Gym chain and offers cookery classes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not into government overreach, but it's an interesting idea. derekthompson.org/p/the-sunday-m…
People aren't ready for the level of brutality we're about to see as ICE triples its budget, doubles its agents, and swarms the streets of American cities to round people up. This is going to be a police state nightmare.
Five funded PhD positions at the Politics of Enlightenment research group of our friends at IZEA @UniHalle! Details here: polight.uni-halle.de/en/five-positi…