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UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Nov 12

Struck by the irony that it is a moral panic over migration that threatens to spell the demise of birthright citizenship, when it was in the midst of anxieties around immigration that the principle was born. Let’s see how the originalists navigate that. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Sir Edward Coke’s Infidel: Imperial Anxiety and the Colonial Origins of a “Strange Extrajudicial Opinion”* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 95, No 4

Abstract In the middle of his report on the Case of the Post-nati, also known as Calvin’s Case (1608), Sir Edward Coke drew a distinction between the status of laws in conquered Christian and conquere...

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Ungated PDF at: www.theobeers.com/fasolt-hegel...

Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Constantin Fasolt’s “Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages” (2008) is a magisterial example of a scholar at the height of his powers who knows how to say exactly what he means and understands the immense difficulty of doing so. Ungated PDF👇 www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages | Viator

According to an old historical tradition, the Reformation marked a fundamental break from the Middle Ages. The tradition has a point, because the Reformation really did bring major change. But it is a...

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · May 20

This is a beautiful little film. Its use of silence works brilliantly to highlight the deep well of revolutionary disappointment that McGahern depicts so carefully in his work, without ever quite succumbing to it. youtu.be/WiZn7figKHc

THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Official Trailer

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Mar 28

You can find other testimony in support, including the position of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, here: www.cga.ct.gov/aspx/CGADisp...

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Mar 28

My reconstruction of the treaty is attached. 2/3

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Mar 28

There is a senate joint resolution (SJ 16) before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly pertaining to the Treaty of Hartford (1638), and its provisions enjoining the extermination of the Pequot people. Below is my testimony. 1/3

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Feb 14

Snap!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Jan 18

What is one to conclude from the contrast between the AHA’s position on Ukraine and its position on Gaza other than it believes some people’s histories are worth more than others?

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 15

“I met a traveller from an antique land.” I’m not sure I would insist on better, but I liked the points of contact.

Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

This is, it seems to me, a more fruitful way to make use of Wittgenstein in social & political theory than to see him as a mere methodological alibi for contending idealist accounts focused on pinning down what historical theorists meant by what they said. /end

Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

Both—abstruse theorist and dogmatic activist—are, to borrow Wittgenstein's felicitous metaphors, idling, failing to meet the rough ground, gone on holiday. Like Weber and Marx before him, Hall is attuned to the emptiness of both one-sided idealism and a one-sided materialism. 4/5

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

What is crucial for Hall is that the error is mutual; the theorist who imagines getting a grip on the world apart from any concern with practice is mirrored by the activist who thinks that they already have all of the answers that they need in the orthodox authorities. 3/5

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

If for Wittgenstein philosophers went astray when they imagined that they could prise meaning apart from use, Hall makes a similar case for the error—political and intellectual—of trying to prise theory from practice. 2/5

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

There is, I think, a way to conceive of Stuart Hall’s diagnosis of the Left’s ills through an idiom by which Wittgenstein took issue with much of what passed for philosophy. 1/5

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Jan 7

January afternoon sunlight, Merrion Square, Dublin

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 7

The model student: Russell on Moore on Wittgenstein—“[Moore] says he always feels W. /must/ be right when they disagree. He says during his lectures W. always looks frightfully puzzled, but nobody else does.”

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Jan 6

So sad to see an established historian punch down and personally attack a contingent faculty member like Claire Potter does here. Highly unprofessional behavior. 🗃️

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Jan 6

It is disgraceful.

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Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social · Dec 30

Good editorial by the Irish Times about the need to properly fund the National Archives:
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

The Irish Times view on the National Archives: a vital resource which has been consistently neglected

The service is chronically understaffed and underfunded and too many archive services are undermined by the restrictions under which they operate

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Dec 29

I’m not saying it means anything or whatever, but when the baby fusses, she’s most quickly soothed by the idea that “the city comes into being for the sake of living, but exists for the sake of living well.” She is totally uninterested in whether you like that translation though.

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Dec 28

I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | The Art Institute of Chicago

The first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, Nor...

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Dec 29

Have heard great things about it. Hope to make it before it closes.

Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Dec 28

It’s all just so staggeringly monstrous.

Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social · Dec 28

David Scott’s skeptical formulation, that “X is not so much wrong, as irrelevant,” is a doubt that we could all productively tarry with before spilling our ink.

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Bullivant @bullivant.bsky.social · Dec 26

This made me laugh.

#Ireland #Humour

Post r/ireland saying: "Rent Boys It's my first time for Christmas in Ireland and my work colleague has said that rent boys might come to my house today. Is this normal? I have all the doors locked just in case. It seems a strange Christmas tradition."

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