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Professional update: I won a visiting research fellowship 2026, to the Politics Department of @Princeton University, generously sponsored by the James @MadisonProgram, led by @McCormickProf. My research topic is: Township, Subsidiarity, Oikophilia: In Defence of the Local. 2/1

@McKinleyAn I agree.

We need to revive Epicureanism

Beauty.

How does envy relate to ambition and rivalry?

"Gradually the dons turned into a secular intelligentsia. They reached their zenith in the postwar period—many of them close to the British state thanks to their wartime service".

@2001ValdemaR Well, if you look at the transformation of the meaning of the term revolution, you will see that sg new comes, indeed, sg ideological...

@HorcherF This is a very ideological view. The problem is that the French Revolution also had its preconditions and causes. And the problems go back to the past. And therefore, to the most ancient periods of humanity.

If the problem is revolutionary modernity...

@VisStephen @Princeton @MadisonProgram @McCormickProf Not exactly. More Gierke, and less Tönnies.

@HorcherF @Princeton @MadisonProgram @McCormickProf Congrats. Gemeischaft vs gesselschaft?!

Professional update: I won a visiting research fellowship 2026, to the Politics Department of @Princeton University, generously sponsored by the James @MadisonProgram, led by @McCormickProf. My research topic is: Township, Subsidiarity, Oikophilia: In Defence of the Local. 2/1

@AlejandroPh_C @sndurlauf Soboul?

@sndurlauf Any reccomendations for a reader that is interested in a Marxist perspective of the revolution?

In honor of Bastille Day, four books I found very valuable in understanding the French Revolution. 1. Jules Michelet, History of the French Revolution Michelet provides for the French Revolution what Thomas Macaulay provided for the Glorious Revolution, a passionate, brilliant history that is great literature. His focus on the people rather than great men and his justice infused view of the Revolution may, in its own way be Whiggish, but is thrilling to read. 2. Jeremy Popkin, A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution This is the best modern one volume history among the several I have read. Very fair minded, following Michelet in its emphasis on the people as the moving force of the Revolution, and free of tired debates between Marxists and Francois Furet. 3. Patrice Higonnet, Goodness Beyond Virtue: The Jacobins in the French Revolution Higonnet argues for an essential humane vision of Jacobin ideology, a vision in which tensions between individual liberty and civic obligations/virtues led, for historically contingent reasons to the disaster of the Terror. His objective is to argue that forms of Jacobin ideals matter for today. I think he is persuasive as he is really arguing that Fraternity is missing in Anglo American ideology, to its detriment. 4. Isser Woloch, The New Regime This book systematically documents the many achievements of the French Revolution from education to legal and governmental reform to welfare and poor relief. Much attention is also given to conscription. As such, the book is chronicle of the monumental achievements of the Revolution.

Can one play football approaching the quality of art? Who do you think was closest to it?

What does beauty mean for Dante, if he identifies it with Beatrice? "Dante’s perception of beauty invigorates a lifelong quest for meaning. Beatrice’s meaning is never fully exhausted."

A great offer. But instead of the Tractatus, I would suggest these two WIttgenstein pieces. This is my piece about these issues: Hume, Wittgenstein and the Certainty of Culture academia.edu/10131043/Hume_…

Tradition turned out to be the most popular among key conservative concepts.

@HorcherF Garrincha!!!

I see this one in one of your piles. Worth studying to make sense of the issues of the present Supreme Court.

@JamesWHankins1 Thanks, Jim, for your support.

Great news, and well-deserved.