Rebecca Kingston
@rkingston.bsky.social
Political Theorist. Author of Plutarch's Prism (CUP, 2022). History of ideas and moral psychology. Tennis fanatic.
And tell me why do they need name tags in a Cabinet meeting in the first place?
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And tell me why do they need name tags in a Cabinet meeting in the first place?
A good corollary to this point is the reading of Marjorie Kars' book. It documents an earlier slave revolt in Guyana (presumably the first in the new world) far away from any Enlightenment influences given the remoteness of the area www.npr.org/2020/08/12/9....
In 'Blood On The River,' The Berbice Rebellion Foreshadows Later Insurgencies
Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A good corollary to this point is the reading of Marjorie Kars' book. It documents an earlier slave revolt in Guyana (presumably the first in the new world) far away from any Enlightenment influences given the remoteness of the area www.npr.org/2020/08/12/9....
I am considering requiring a modern day equivalent of common place books where students have to physically write down passages from the texts studied. There is an interesting set of options here: against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
Assignment Ideas - AGAINST AI
Image: The Shipwreck, J.M.W. Turner
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August 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I am considering requiring a modern day equivalent of common place books where students have to physically write down passages from the texts studied. There is an interesting set of options here: against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
Yes, except that some of the brightest British scholars in the past only needed an undergraduate first to prove their worth. Graduate degrees were for those across the pond.
August 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Yes, except that some of the brightest British scholars in the past only needed an undergraduate first to prove their worth. Graduate degrees were for those across the pond.
This is not actually how old fashioned monarchy worked. Montesquieu told us that...
June 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is not actually how old fashioned monarchy worked. Montesquieu told us that...