Bernard J Dobski
@DobskiBJ
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Professor of Political Science | Assumption University | Political philosophy, politics and literature, and public policy | Views are my own
Joined December 2016
Cannot wait to participate in this! So looking forward to this event!
Participants include @EliotACohen, @TheSubtleNotes, @ProfessorHamlin, @DobskiBJ, Hugh Liebert, & Brian Danoff. Authors discussed: Plutarch, Homer, Shakespeare, Melville, Twain, Franklin, and Lincoln!
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To that end, I want to express my gratitude for their support to my fiancée, Nabil Tueme, my daughters, Ava and Paloma, and to my wonderful colleagues in the Political Science Department at Assumption: Geoff Vaughan, Jeremy Geddert, Brigid Staub, and Daniel J Mahoney.
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Honored to announce that Assumption University has decided to award me the Paul Ziegler Presidential Award in Scholarship this year. As anyone academic knows, scholarship might have your name on it, but there’s almost always an army of people behind you supporting that effort.
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Thrilled to announce that my conversation with the Center for American Civics @ASUCivics recently posted! We cover the importance of Twain's literature to the shaping of the American imagination, his relevance to America at 250, and more! Check it out!
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Thrilled to be part of “The Public Discourse”! This is my latest on Twain, a review of Chernow’s bio on the American master. Check it out! Special thanks to Matt Franck for the opportunity.
Remembering Twain
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Preserving Aristotle for men like Dante, and his brief but dense account of Dante’s Divine Comedy and Monarchy. Can anyone wiser than me in these matters tell me where Fortin might have erred?
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I just finished reading “Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages” by Fr. Ernest Fortin. What an incredible book! I am prepared to be convinced by his account of Christianity’s struggles with coming to terms with Aristotle and The Politics, his treatment of Arab philosophers in
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Absolute must read!
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump Clifford Ando on the dire developments at U Chicago https://t.co/EpurNhY8Hm
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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump Clifford Ando on the dire developments at U Chicago https://t.co/EpurNhY8Hm
compactmag.com
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it...
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He jumped into hell with only a knife and an aid bag.🧵🇺🇸 On May 2, 1968, then-Staff Sgt. Roy Benavidez heard a 12-man Special Forces team was trapped in the jungle, outnumbered 100-to-1. He fought relentlessly for six hours, losing so much blood in the process, medics thought
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NEW: @DobskiBJ visits Cultural Debris to talk Mark Twain and Joan of Arc. Here's a little preview. New audio episode drops Tuesday morning!
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So the Review of Politics just published my review of Nicolas McAfee’s recent book on Shakespeare’s “Late Plays.” Give my review a read. Then go get McAfee’s book to see if I have done the work justice! DOI: https://t.co/iHA2exXu8V
cambridge.org
Nicolas McAfee: Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. Pp. xi, 173.) - Volume 87 Issue 4
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The latest review of my book on Twain’s Joan of Arc just dropped at “Pietas.” Grateful for the seriousness with which the reviewer took my work! As for his final judgment, you’ll have to read it for yourself! 😉
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“Have we no wine here?” (Cor. I.9) Maybe not. But we do have coffee! Special thanks to Evan Amato @SirEvanAmato for the delicious coffee in a package that matches the flavor! Get you some Imperium Coffee! I demand it.
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For those fans of the CRB or of Twain or of me, check out the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books: https://t.co/yC0NYZaxp7. The piece by Chris Flannery on "Twain's Biographers" is itself "pure gold" and it concludes with a banger!
claremontreviewofbooks.com
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On the eve of this Independence Day, I am honored to announce that I will be joining @ASU_SCETL as a Visiting Professor this coming academic year, where I will spend my sabbatical doing some teaching and a bunch of work on my next book! Special thanks to its Director @ravramenko
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Had a wonderful evening and dinner with @SirEvanAmato and his merry band of travelers. Seriously, the work Evan does on behalf of the glories of Western civilization is amazing and deserving of a wide audience and lots of support! And then there’s the coffee….😉 Thanks Evan!
Dinner with @DobskiBJ in Rome Great company, great conversation — from Alexis de Tocqueville to Giovanni Gentile and more…
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You have to be an idiot to believe that, for example, an Apple press release is more honest about their corporate strategy than an internal strategy document from the CEO. Which is why nobody really believes that. Like two decades ago now, Raymond Ibrahim compiled The Al Qaeda
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