Dan Edelstein

You’ve heard of the Thucydides Trap, but have you heard of the Sallust Snare? Stanford historian @danedels warns of the dangers facing aging republics in @TheNatlInterest. Link below 👇

UCLA overlords should weep with shame

@ProfEricAdler Yes, Isocrates would like a word…

Strawman alert: "This shift reflects the transformation of the humanities from a purely aesthetic and theoretical endeavor into a discipline deeply engaged with the pressing social, political and cultural issues of our time. 1/ insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/…

I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for “A Global Enlightenment.” Many thanks to all my fantastic friends and colleagues who helped me write it and to the American Historical Association for this extraordinary honor.

@quadrismegistus Congratulations!!

Today was my 1st day as Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, back at Cambridge where I postdoc'd. I feel excited, humbled, but most of all deeply grateful & lucky to have a teaching position after all this time, exactly 20 yrs after I started uni. HMU if you're ever nearby!

@GiannaEnglert Mine usually read the first Treatise instead…

Thoughts and prayers for my freshman student who mistakenly read Filmer's Patriarcha instead of Locke's Second Treatise.

@daughton_p Félicitations!

Can multiculturalism alone save the humanities? I offer my perspective in @chronicle: Opinion | The Promise and Pitfalls of a 'Global Humanities' chronicle.com/article/the-pr…

@ProfEricAdler @chronicle Really great piece, well done!

Hic Rhodus, hic salta.

🚨The Hamilton Center at @UF will make up to 25 more hires this year, at junior & senior levels in: 1. Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law 2. History, Statecraft & Strategy 3. American Government, History & Literature 4. Science, Technology, Ethics & Society Apply below👇

@GuilhotNicolas Free speakers! Maybe subwoofers?

Will there be a cookbook? T-shirts? A fragrance?

@daniel_dsj2110 Plus ça change…

Raymond Aron on French anti-Americanism after WW2: "The superior culture that you possess or think you possess makes it easier for you to accept a loss of political power. It is not perhaps the most gracious thing to make a point of not thanking your benefactor, of denouncing his greed or barbarism, but it is certainly a way to avoid being accused by others or oneself of kissing the hand of the rich protector." 1951

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.

@DavidAvromBell It’s a tale of two democracies—imagine if France had a first past the post system…

If these numbers hold, and the New Popular Front arrives in first place in the French legislative elections, with the National Rally in third behind the Macronites, that is very, very good news indeed. lemonde.fr/politique/arti…

A huge congratulations to Darrin McMahon for receiving the Jacques Barzun Prize! amphilsoc.org/2024-jacques-b…

@LayWilliams Brilliant!

@daniel_dsj2110 Thanks, Danny! Only 10 months to go…

Dan Edelstein/@danedels's forthcoming book looks amazing: "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin": "How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problems": press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

@daniel_dsj2110 The loneliness of conference breaks before smart phones.

Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt, Milan, Italy, 1955. Arendt did not think that highly of Aron’s thought. He wrote a highly critical review of her Origins of Totalitarianism

(As you may know, this is literally called “guillotining” books!)

Let this be a warning to all counterrevolutionary books.