Teresa M. Bejan

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One for me, one for the @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social Shklar Room shelves. @tmbejan.bsky.social

And if you’d like a review copy please do get in touch!

Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism. It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England. Please, check it out!

Big event for political theorists and inequality scholars!

and www.youtube.com/watch?v=alqg...

See Professor Bejan's RGCS Lectures on the themes of the book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxXj...

Bejan is the only two-time presenter at the RGCS Lecture Series. An earlier draft of the book was workshopped at a full-day GRIPP-RGCS event in 2023.

Yesterday the book was launched with an Oxford New Book" panel discussion at Oriel, where one of the discussants was Jordan Walters, RGCS Philosophy PhD '25, now a postdoc at Oxford. Also in attendance: RGCS Taylor Fellow alum Amelia Kemp BA '26, now an MPhil student in political theory at Oxford.

Publication day for _First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism_ (Harvard UP) by @tmbejan.bsky.social Teresa M. Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at Oxford, RGCS Visiting Fulbright Chair in Political and Constitutional Theory in 2021. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Now published: plato.stanford.edu/entries/acad...

Look what just arrived, @tmbejan.bsky.social ! So excited for you on this major achievement and also excited to read and learn from it!

What an excellent week for new books! Today’s congratulations to my brilliant former colleague @tmbejan.bsky.social. Excited to read. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Was interviewed by @etc.se about my research on online dating and the demands of justice we can and should place on digital platforms www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...

Look what came in the post! #hobbes #hats #quakers #seventeenthcenturypronounpolitics @tmbejan.bsky.social

Hooray!!!

Do have you a political theory/philosophy book manuscript? Would you like a one-day workshop dedicated to it in Spring 2027? If so, Bristol is here for you, and as promised a while ago, here's the very short form you need to fill in between now and roughly 4 weeks time: forms.gle/uCvi7sMMT7kW...

Very interesting stuff by @tmbejan.bsky.social

Though I would note that the Reasons was both pro and con the toleration of Catholics (though obviously coming down rather heavier on the con - and then prompting the Essay on Toleration to elaborate as much).

Very interesting framing of Locke on toleration - and its relevance to contemporary debates on liberalism by @tmbejan.bsky.social. #philsky #polsky

Very interesting article - can't wait for Tim's volume On the Nature of Churches to flesh out Locke's views on tolerance and the established church in more detail.

Verhoefstadt tweets are cool n'all. But it's when there's a question on University Challenge that you know you've hit the big time... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAT...

I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion, here: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi... Come for Guy Verhoefstadt's Locke tweets, stay for the (unsung) significance of William Popple for so-called "Lockean" toleration...

I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion, here: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi... Come for Guy Verhoefstadt's Locke tweets, stay for the (unsung) significance of William Popple for so-called "Lockean" toleration...

David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, and Felix Waldmann eds. The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives – Oxford University Press, July 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @academic.oup.com @tmbejan.bsky.social

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

Excellent news from @tmbejan.bsky.social & @davidrarmitage.bsky.social (& Felix!) for the #JohnLocke scholars of the parish. #philsky #polsky #histsky #booksky

From May 2026 - Partisan (In)Tolerance and Affective Polarization - https://cup.org/4ud30Lm - James Tilley, @tmbejan.bsky.social & @sarahobolt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Outstanding July 4th reflections from @tmbejan.bsky.social

The Bicentennial is one of my earliest memories, and was a rare bright spot in the 70s. As a teenager I had a replica print of the Declaration on my wall. For years, my wife and I read the first section aloud at our 4th parties. Didn't expect to be where we are. www.libertyfund.org/250th/dissen...

When the Declaration of Independence was written, the word “equal” had many different definitions. The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance—but what happens next is up to us, Teresa M. Bejan argues:

Teresa is so splendid. #hats

And now free to read (I think?) at the link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

And now free to read (I think?) at the link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My essay on what it means to be “equal”—before and after the Declaration of Independence—now out in The Atlantic! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Drawing on my forthcoming book for Harvard University Press.

My essay on what it means to be “equal”—before and after the Declaration of Independence—now out in The Atlantic! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Drawing on my forthcoming book for Harvard University Press.

Thank you, Musa!

Final corrected version now published open-access Jacob T. Levy. 2026. Conceptualizing Academic Freedom. Annual Review Political Science. 29:57-72. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Very happy to promote this public philosophy collaboration by my newish & most excellent colleague Ana Milioni (who is not on social media!): www.the-pamphlet.com Also of interest 2 e.g @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @enzoreds.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social

Congratulations, Geertje!

An honor and a pleasure to engage with such an excellent group of political theorists and philosophers—thanks for having me!

Delighted to say that we're hosting @tmbejan.bsky.social here in Bristol this week. If you're interested in coming along to her talk at 2pm on June 9th (connected to this book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...) then just send me an email. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social