Nick Barden

Ph.D. Candidate. Political theory. @GUGovt. Early modern HPT: Calvin to Bodin.

[Nick Barden @NBarden]

My article on Jean Calvin's 1532 Seneca Commentary is now published at @HEIjournal. If you're interested in #Calvin's political thought or the problem of counsel, take a look.

Link below, and DM me if you don't have access but would like to read it.

https://t.co/zxVm4iTRB9

[Nick Barden @NBarden]

Towards a Cusanian theology of AI.

[Joseph Nolla, SJ @josephnollasj]

“Pope Leo was a math major? I wonder what his encyclicals will be like”

Like this

[Terence Sweeney @TerenceJSweeney]

Since Pope Leo uses em dashes in Magnifica Humanitas, that means we get to have them back from AI.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

UPDATE: According to sources who have seen the final text, Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical, set for release tomorrow, will argue that humanity faces a defining choice regarding AI.

He uses the Tower of Babel — the ancient story of a people who tried to engineer their way to godhood and collapsed under the weight of their own power — as a warning about where unchecked technical mastery leads.

Instead, the U.S.-born pontiff will urge the world to build something humbler in its place: a civilization where God and humanity can dwell together.

[Chris Hoofnagle @hoofnagle]

Our original policy was based on the concept of plagiarism. But the rapid increase in capabilities in Claude particularly caused us to shift focus: the new policy seeks to protect the cognitive skills constitutive of a legal education.

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

Hard to think of anything that compares to it in depth, erudition or sweep

[Matthew H. Young @matthenryyoung]

Once again, my friends are too kind.

I was honored to work with @tmbejan on the chapter on Roger Williams, which is precisely the introduction to Williams I hoped to give my own students. The whole volume (priced at $55 in hardback) will be invaluable to teachers and students.

[J. History of Ideas @JHIdeas]

One more week to submit! The JHI Blog welcomes pitches for a forum on the conceptual history of technology. Submit a proposal by May 7. Read the call for complete information: https://t.co/8YECI1Vuri

[Nick Barden @NBarden]

Interesting find on Bodin's use of Calvin: when Bodin cites Calvin to deny a general right of resistance, he references the Commentary on John alongside the Institutes.

The Institutes cite is 4.20.29-31; for the John Commentary, it's likely Calvin's note on John 18:11.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Catholic University can form pioneers of a new humanism in the context of the digital revolution. This is a service to the truth and to all humanity. Without this demanding educational effort, passive adaptation to dominant paradigms will be mistaken for competence, and the loss of freedom for progress. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[Visit Washington, DC @washingtondc]

DC from above: cherry blossom edition. 🌸✈️

📸: drchubacca / IG #Only1DC #SpringinDC #CherryBlossom

[The Associated Press @AP]

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. https://t.co/FFI5TO0oGT

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

Soon in print! https://t.co/XY6BjSUAhw

[Matthew David Hamilton @Sir_Matthew_D]

Beyond excited to launch AIDC, an @NEHgov-funded research center for AI and democracy at @Georgetown!

Follow @GUAIDC for more info on research, events and opportunities, including fellowship CFAs coming later this week.

[Jacob Bruggeman @jacob_bruggeman]

New article in @ModAmHist: "Phreaking Politics in Modern America." Come for fun bits about Abbie Hoffman and Steve Jobs, stay for the analysis of how critiques of AT&T evolved into early versions of the techno-libertarian politics proliferating today.

https://t.co/2sCz21iW9J

[Nick Barden @NBarden]

@tomaashby Did you find his trash bins?

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

Update: It is now closer to c.300,000 words of new Pocock

[Nick Barden @NBarden]

@tomaashby @andpgibson?

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

The Capitalist Self by Craig Muldrew
This radical reinterpretation of the Financial Revolution recasts capitalism as a socially constructed set of institutions and beliefs.
📘 https://t.co/DdqlrpUa1I
#econhist

[Nick Barden @NBarden]

Simply the greatest historian of the 20th century, with no comparison.

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

@yuanyi_z @DavidWootton69 @LaurelinM @SamaMammadova @Rosario_L0pez It is quite something reading his manuscript papers. Each is written in a very neat hand and in perfect sentences – characteristically long and complex – in single flowing draft with rare, minimal adjustments. And yes, all the essays I have seen are only dated to a single day.

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

The copy of "Saeculum" (1970) by R.A. Markus that John Pocock used when writing "The Machiavellian Moment" (1975)