Sam Schmitt
@SchmittTheory
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Religion & Liberalism // Postdoc @PPE_Center Brown University //@UNC Political Theory PhD // MA Phil // Trane, Ostrom, Tolkien, Hobbes, Stump, Bach, Vulf
Providence, RI
Joined August 2015
To my delight, my article “The Problem of Low Expectations and the Principled Politician” is available in Economics and Philosophy. Here's a thread on the article.
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so uh this is an interesting list to throw together.
most universities & colleges surely have faculty members who are contrarians? liberals & progressives are always quarreling with one another; "the left eats its own"; hiring conservatives per se will result in very lop-sided resumés especially in the sciences. really, research.
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There may be an interesting point about incentives in this article by Dr. Morton, but using Nozick as an example is mistaken.
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This should not be @jjosephporter 's hit tweet. It should be the one about gross national virtue and such.
This is how @Columbia's "Contemporary Civilization" course ends. A nice illustration of the lopsidedness of almost all humanities curricula— promising "a wide range of perspectives" and then excluding all unapproved perspectives
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This is the way.
YouTube will only pay creators who use their real voice and produce original content starting July 15, making reused videos, copied content, low-effort uploads, and fully AI-generated videos will be ineligible for monetization
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Top three comments are about "cloud seeding.". Our goose is cooked.
🚨 BREAKING: A MASSIVE flooding event is unfolding right now in Ruidoso, New Mexico. A large structure can be seen being swept down the river. The water level has risen 20 FEET in a matter of 30 minutes, shattering previous records, per @MaxVelocityWX . Pray for these folks 🙏🏻
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Elon throwing his weight around might be one of the only things to bother MAGA.
How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?.
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This should be @jjosephporter 's hit tweet.
Gross National Virtue. Gross National Joy. Gross National Health. Gross National Strength. Gross National Beauty. Gross National Weddings. Gross National Babies. Gross National Frens. Gross National Cookouts. Gross National Little Leaguers. Gross National Carolers. Gross National.
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People: I've slipped from the 990s to the 980s. We need to be moving the other direction. I gotta break 1k. Why?. Why does the moth fly to the flame?.
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If you're curious, @emilyommundsen Isaac Mehlhaff and I published a paper on the unique approach of this course. 2/2.
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RT @GaetaAmy: I am horrified by how many academics are using AI to summarize research papers and books, not reading them otherwise. Intelle….
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This is the only heterodox political philosophy I want to see.
I am a presidency sedevacantist. The last true American president was Franklin Pierce.
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If you are a student @BrownUniversity or know a student there, this is the only class you need to know about for Fall 2025: Everyday Political Theory. blurb in photo. This is my favorite course to teach and a favorite of my students at @UNC . It rocks. 1/2
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Caveat: I am by no means a perfect husband. Marriage can be challenging, if only because life is challenging and no one is perfect. Plenty of suffering and loss, plenty of joy and simple pleasures. Glad I'm with her through it. (Wifeguy posting over).
Yup. Married 11 years, no cheating still a (non-cringy) wifeguy. Love hearing about her day, everyday. Up for an adventure or just a chill night in. Not a wildly high bar to pass, but enough people don't do it that it is definitely not a given thing.
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Yup. Married 11 years, no cheating still a (non-cringy) wifeguy. Love hearing about her day, everyday. Up for an adventure or just a chill night in. Not a wildly high bar to pass, but enough people don't do it that it is definitely not a given thing.
do boys really like girls for years and years and not cheat and not get bored of them??? like is that even real???.
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RT @ArdaCraft_: >this is the orb which can corrupt and mislead even the wisest in middle earth.>here is our tech company palantir. >this is….
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Gotta say Shyamalan was pretty chill. I assume that's because I didn't start shouting about how the plot of Signs makes no sense I like I do to anyone who will listen.
My buddy @jgunderson8 recently saw the Sagrada Familia in person but I saw M Night Shyamalan at a coffee shop today so I think we know who's in the lead for sightseeing this summer.
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My buddy @jgunderson8 recently saw the Sagrada Familia in person but I saw M Night Shyamalan at a coffee shop today so I think we know who's in the lead for sightseeing this summer.
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