Megan Gallagher

In Defense of Good Writing "Knowledge is Good"

This, by @mirandayaver.bsky.social, is well worth a read!

love the ucla theory shout out!

Duty bound to support any love for this Wolly novel!

And I haven't read it yet so grain of salt and all that but Vincenzo Latronico's 'Perfection' popped into my mind.

North and South!

Higher Ed Is at a Turning Point. 11 Scholars Predict What’s Next. AI, enrollment, finances, politics, and the turbulent road ahead.

citing my sources:

I keep coming back to this passage by @adapalmer.bsky.social.

I'm teaching a class on utopianism in the fall and I've decided to leave dystopias off the syllabus altogether. There's enough of that shit in the air we breathe.

Political theorists! The deadline to apply to October's @associationpt.bsky.social meeting in Ann Arbor is tomorrow, February 10 at 11:59pm EST! Details at the link.

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Not that you need recs, but this book by Alisa Kessel is the best exploration of this idea that I've read. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I won’t be awake at 2:30 this morning (I hope) but fingers crossed!

No but seriously!

Hah! Busy day. Let me go up for tenure next year and we'll talk!

Best of Moira's One-Liners YouTube video by CBC

"It's fruit wine, what's not to like?"

Canonical ones, yes.

Thank you, Bonnie!

Oh, I didn't realize! I started in 2006 and finally left around 2014. It's hard to believe both Kirstie and Victor are gone.

There are a few of us out here! :)

I really lucked out on the advisor front!

It was a pleasure working on this symposium with Arash, Kye, Fred, and all of the contributors and while I'm sure Kirstie would have rolled her eyes at us, I think she'd have been secretly pleased all the same. (8/8)

On Narrative and Unruly Readers - published on January 30, 2026 In this essay, I reflect on Kirstie McClure’s insights on historically-inflected political theory, the power and perils of narrative, and the formidable role of readers as agents of praxis. Her attent...

Sixth and finally, "On Narrative and Unruly Readers" by Vicki Hsueh. (7/8)

Thinking with Kirstie - published on January 28, 2026 What logic joins political theory and some circles of interpretive empirical research as members of the same category? Aren’t the two on opposite sides of a methodological and practice divide? The lat...

Fifth, "Thinking with Kirstie" by Dvora Yanow. (6/8)

Historical Writing, Material Text, and Political Theory - published on January 15, 2026 Kirstie McClure’s writing took Walter Benjamin’s and Hannah Arendt’s respective attention to acts of reading and remembrance to new depths, and her writing has a great deal to say to historians, poli...

Fourth, "Historical Writing, Material Text, and Political Theory" by Matthew Crow. (5/8)

Kirstie McClure and the Textures of Political Thought - published on January 8, 2026 Drawing on one of Kirstie McClure’s unpublished essays on John Locke’s use of language in his letters from exile in Holland, and recalling her fondness for an intriguing image from the frontispiece of...

Third, "Kirstie McClure and the Textures of Political Thought" by Patchen Markell. (4/8)

Kirstie McClure - published on January 9, 2026 I offered these remarks about Kirstie McClure on September 6, 2024, at an informal memorial for her at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Conference. The venue was the Bank and Bourbo...

Second, a personal remembrance by Wendy Brown. (3/8)

In Conversation with Kirstie - published on January 17, 2026 As former graduate students of Kirstie McClure (1951–2023), we offer these remembrances of our time with her at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Our hope is to put Kirstie’s contribut...

First up, an introduction by @kyebarker.bsky.social, @arashdavar.bsky.social, @fredleept.bsky.social, and me. (2/8)

Now that all of the pieces in our symposium in honor of Kirstie McClure are available online from Philosophy and Global Affairs, here's a little thread with each of the pieces. (1/8)

I'll be working on an entry on #Montesquieu for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the coming months. If you have any recommendations about secondary readings the biblio absolutely must include (especially French language ones), I'm all ears! #poltheory

On Narrative and Unruly Readers - published on January 30, 2026 In this essay, I reflect on Kirstie McClure’s insights on historically-inflected political theory, the power and perils of narrative, and the formidable role of readers as agents of praxis. Her attent...

The final piece of our symposium dedicated to Kirstie McClure, Vicki Hsueh's "On Narrative and Unruly Readers," is out! #poltheory

On Liberty: with Related Writings Forthcoming - March 2026 "With Harriet Taylor's name at last joined to that of her beloved husband John Stuart Mill as the co-author of this timeless book, we get to see On Liberty even more clearly ...

Credit where it's due!