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Jason S. Canon
@uncanonical.bsky.social
Peripatetic American in Cambridge. PhD work on empathy and democracy.
Join us tomorrow!
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
With any luck, we'll look back on this era and wonder why the hell we allowed this to happen.
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 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.
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
No amount of bolding will save this company’s name.
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 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...
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Humans are the only animals known to weep emotionally.

But we now know that doggos get teary when reunited with their humans. 🥺
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I hear that it’s nearly impossible to unsubscribe
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
What kind of society can’t discuss courtesy without legality?
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
wtf japan
October 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Try as I might, can’t escape concussionball.
October 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Unmitigated malpractice in this coverage.
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
wut
October 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
May I suggest to the French
October 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
And I thought America took the Rawls hagiography too far.
October 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump's civic purpose in promoting wetland development
September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trump's civic purpose in celebrating Pax Americana
September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trump's civic purpose in relighting the flames of patriotism
September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Best cover of APSA?
September 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just checking in to see how America is doing...
September 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Point me to the barricades.
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Bridleway Revisited
August 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
August 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM