Doug Thompson
Political theorist. Rewriting the global history of political thought from the perspective of bureaucrats, 3000 BCE to the present.
Website: sites.google.com/view/douglas-i-thom…
- Finally, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social is being recognized as part of the “Western canon.” Frankly, it’s his due.
- So much of the excellent work that people in my field have done in recent years to expand our geographic horizons has been heavily dependent on scholarship in other fields that began this work much earlier. Interdisciplinary research and even simply reading are truly transformative.
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- Until recently, my academic field—political theory/history of ideas—had a ‘canon’ that cut out the *entire* first half of the record of human political thought. This ‘canon’ was arbitrarily drawn from 4 times and places *only*: (1) a single century in the ancient Aegean, almost all from Athens…
- Democratizing “reconstruction” moments only happen in the US when the anti-democratization party is totally excluded (1865, 1932) or when the parties are *both* internally split on “race.” Neither is true in 2025. So what’s the path forward?
- Until now, the basic structure of how the US Constitution "works" has been "refounded" 4 times. We are now *very* far into the 5th "refounding." Dr. McMillan Cottom is right. There is no easy path toward quickly & peacefully reversing this. Why? Let's look at the other "refounding" moments. (1/)
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- Sadly, these numbers will shift in reaction to any Iranian retaliation. US military casualties especially will produce a media frenzy for war. I’m old enough to remember 2003. This escalation was 100% elective, launched without evidence or argument, violating Article I of the US Constitution.
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