Chris Bertram
@crookedfootball
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Just an amazing book, a real punch to the stomach. I put off reading it for ages, imagining that it had a tinge of “Blue Labour” about it. So glad I finally opened it.
This means either (a) that this is a non-job or (b) that this part of Burnham's plans will fail miserably
Fortunately, the actual Times article is behind a paywall and archive. doesn't work. But (a) some philosopher or other will say anything for funding [sad, but true] and (b) whose values are "our values"? [My values are not Rupert's]
Jeffrey Donaldson wasn't English either, but that fact didn't feature much in the headlines, nor I suspect in the obiter dicta of the judge.
Seriously very good, but also terrifying, about the persecution of gay people in Senegal and the main character's struggle to come to terms with himself, his religion and his sexuality. I think Sarr will win the Nobel at some point.
Tirrell Lynne, "Genocidal Language Games" in doi.org/10.1093/acpr...
I commend the anti-sexist intentions behind Mediapart's house style, but my is it a pain to read
Maybe political philosophers can set up a hotline to inform people what their rights are?
I wonder if I'm the only person to have read these lines in @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social 's excellent Epistemic Injustice and thought that Cassandra exemplifies this, since she has a high degree of normative credibility but is never believed because cursed by Apollo not to be
J'ai achevé aujourd'hui ce roman très émouvant. Il est assez long, mais il en vaut vraiment la peine. C'est une histoire familiale qui traite principalement des souffrances des femmes à travers les épisodes les plus traumatisants de la France du XXe siècle.
The FT wants stability and responsibility but also rekindling and unleashing, and all in the same sentence.
The Connexion is basically clickbait central, but I do love the subject line from their most recent email
Catherine Withol de Wenden, Atlas des migrations, Editions Autrement, 2012.