Digressionsimpressions

On Spinoza’s political ruthlessness digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-spinoza...

Taking a different angle on this: fascism is an international movement and liberalism should be too—and always has been!

Bad 24hrs for prediction markets; not a bad day for democracy. Correlation is not causation.

Brazil getting its Dewey vs Truman moment?

This must be the hottest author photo/blurb!

On Montesquieu and the Honor economy of Science (with a nod to Daniel Greco) digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-montesq...

Spinoza’s Federal Union and the Morphology of federalism (Spinoza’s Political Theory as Modeling, pt. 11) digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/spinozas-f...

Spinoza on the everlastingness of Aristocracies. (Spinoza’s Political Theory as Modeling, pt. 10) digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/spinoza-on...

Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

The fact that my spellchecker doesn't recognise kvetch is antisemitic imo.

Katie Zacharia to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/some-curmu... Some Curmudgeonly Thoughts on the Nature of Rightwing Policy Preferences.

digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/some-curmu... Some Curmudgeonly Thoughts on the Nature of Rightwing Policy Preferences.

I have been translated into Turkish Günümüz Profesyonel Matematiğinin Sonu Üzerine ekdergi.com/gunumuz-prof...

My course readings for a MA seminar on recent liberal political economy; perhaps amusing to some.

On the presence/absence of Political Nous, and its danger; (Spinoza’s Political Theory as Modeling, pt. 9) digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-pre...

Some really probing and excellent work by a student of mine, Talita, mentioned in this LRB article on cultural and artistic responses to the Pelicot trial. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/oc...

Why is caring openly about things supposed to be embarrassing? @uncanonical.net and I talked with @aselrod.bsky.social about sincerity, “cringe,” and what a politics built around contempt does to the people practicing it. www.liberalpractice.org/3mwlru2ysnc2u

So do our tech overlords think that once we align AI with whatever they decide, we'll know how to align humans with each other?

On the demise of Contemporary Professional Mathematics digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-dem... With some use of @lastpositivist.bsky.social