Jason S. Canon
@uncanonical.bsky.social
Peripatetic American in Cambridge. PhD work on empathy and democracy.
Looking forward to reading this.
I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/political-meritocracy-in-the-21st-century/AACAB43634DBE4476BD4F2E6A1C78298?utm_date=20251128&utm_id=1764310759&utm_campaign=CLAS,Elements,Humanities,IOC&utm_sou...
t.co
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Looking forward to reading this.
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Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
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if they get him with milk next it's battery
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
if they get him with milk next it's battery
Jon Stewart on His Faith (or Lack Thereof) | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Join us tomorrow!
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Join us tomorrow!
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Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory
If I ever write a Doctor Who episode, it'll be about the 11 days so damning that the Church wiped them from historical memory.
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If I ever write a Doctor Who episode, it'll be about the 11 days so damning that the Church wiped them from historical memory.
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Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.
Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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you guys aren't thinking this through. if the GOP renege on any part of this deal they'll look like shameful hypocrites!
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
you guys aren't thinking this through. if the GOP renege on any part of this deal they'll look like shameful hypocrites!
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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sound on. I’m still laughing
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
sound on. I’m still laughing
A society so intellectual that an economist's op-ed on another economist's tax policy gets a news alert.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A society so intellectual that an economist's op-ed on another economist's tax policy gets a news alert.
Cable news and social media are the leaded gasoline of our time. www.ft.com/content/5060...
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Cable news and social media are the leaded gasoline of our time. www.ft.com/content/5060...
No better way to honor Cheney than shooting from the hip.
So, do we get post-McCain-death Trump, or post-GHW Bush-death Trump?
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No better way to honor Cheney than shooting from the hip.
New details on life of Cambridge hero.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
New details on life of Cambridge hero.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Need something life-affirming? Allow me to recommend Perfect Days (2023), a meditation on life and beauty and public sanitation infrastructure.
Don't watch the trailer. Don't expect intense plotting. Do watch through the end of the credits.
Don't watch the trailer. Don't expect intense plotting. Do watch through the end of the credits.
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Need something life-affirming? Allow me to recommend Perfect Days (2023), a meditation on life and beauty and public sanitation infrastructure.
Don't watch the trailer. Don't expect intense plotting. Do watch through the end of the credits.
Don't watch the trailer. Don't expect intense plotting. Do watch through the end of the credits.
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No amount of bolding will save this company’s name.
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
No amount of bolding will save this company’s name.
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cc: Janet Mills
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October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
cc: Janet Mills
leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...
leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...
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We live in an episode of Veep
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We live in an episode of Veep
A happy change: my article on Rousseau’s three general wills is now open access at the Review of Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A happy change: my article on Rousseau’s three general wills is now open access at the Review of Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...