Pol Theory Prof @Politics_Oxford & author of Mere Civility (2017) and First Among Equals (2026). Essays @ NYT, Atlantic, WaPo, &c. Writing on equality.
Oxford, United Kingdom
Joined January 2016
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This will be amazing.
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
Also if you’re an academic or journalist interested in reviewing, please do get in touch!
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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David Armitage: "In this reflective essay marking the 25th anniversary of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), David Armitage reconstructs the intellectual genesis of his book and reassesses its arguments in light of subsequent scholarship." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Can't wait to read this.
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
Teresa M. Bejan retweeted
As with everything @TMBejan writes, this will be excellent.
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
Teresa M. Bejan retweeted
It’s a good book! Well worth reading. A major contribution.
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
Teresa M. Bejan retweeted
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
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.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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Hamilton School’s @evo_dav on Catherine of Siena: saint, mystic, and shrewd political actor.
Best known for her visions and letters, Catherine also played a decisive role in the politics of 14th-century Italy. She urged the papacy’s return from Avignon, intervened in the conflicts of the city-states, and developed a language of carità that linked love of God to the duties of civic life.
A vivid portrait of a woman who treated the active life of the city as an integral part of her religious vocation.
Read the full essay at @EngelsbergIdeas: engelsbergideas.com/portrait…
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Were we really never alone in the past? Pleased to have worked on this Arte documentary, based closely on my #privacy book, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life arte.tv/en/videos/127455-003…
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The Department of History, Columbia University, invites applications for an assistant professor specializing in the political, intellectual, and/or economic history of the United States in the late 19th and/or 20th century.
apply.interfolio.com/195736
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The Republic begins with four words: katebēn chthes eis Peiraia. We might say ‘Yesterday I went down to the Piraeus.’ Ancient sources report that a tablet was found among Plato’s effects on which these words had been written out in several different orders.
Plato’s final choice puts katebēn (‘I went down’) first.
Why?
The reissue of Hamilton and Cairns’ celebrated edition of Plato’s dialogues shows how every translation bears the marks of its era and of its translator’s taste.
The pleasures of translating Plato | @ArmandDAngour
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…
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ACADEMIC JOBS 🏫 📖 The Institute of American Constitutional Thought & Leadership @UToledo invites applications for multiple open rank faculty positions in American political thought, American constitutionalism, and American history to begin Fall 2027. The deadline for priority consideration is November 13. buff.ly/l7LWmZs
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Attention political philosophers and political theorists!
Applications are open for the 2027 Book Manuscript workshop of the York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy @UniOfYork
Details via this link:
york.ac.uk/politics/cpt/even…
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The Pharos Autumn Lectures 2026:
Professor Teresa Bejan (Oriel College) - 'First Among Equals: How Did Equality Become an Egalitarian Ideal?'
Tuesdays 27 October, 10 November and 24 November, 5pm, Noel Salter Room, New College.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/teresa-be…
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On John Henry Newman's feast day recall his account of a university: where "the intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to find its equal in some antagonist activity, and its judge in the tribunal of truth. It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness rendered innocuous, and error exposed, by the collision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge." Newman, Historical Sketches.
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New from me and @bhatia_ud in the @apsrjournal : a limited and conditional defense of machine politics (aka clientelism, patronage, vote-buying) in service of collective countervailing power.
The politics of hollowed-out parties twiddling their thumbs on social media while the world burns has failed us. @bhatia_ud and I wondered if robust party machines built w/ patronage and clientelism might teach us something. Our answer, in @apsrjournal: doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261…
