Bill is a spiritual teacher, writer, & fundraiser.
Cleveland, OH
Joined July 2010
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. It says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
- Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa," 1952
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The first review of First Among Equals is live, from the indomitable @DavidWootton69
“Teresa Bejan…has fundamentally re-conceptualised the history of equality; for an historian of political theory there could hardly be a more important achievement.”
Thank you, David!
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I’ll be giving the autumn Pharos lectures on one of the central puzzles in my new book, First Among Equals: “How did equality become an egalitarian ideal?”
The first lecture will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, 26 Oct) at 5pm in New College. Full details and registration below!
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…
@tmbejan
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It's a great mail day when I receive a beautiful new hardback by @tmbejan. I'm glad to see Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers finally getting their due!
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The pseudo-self
Subject to Approval
I claim to be myself, then wait to see how it goes over. >> williamgreen.substack.com/p/…
#Girard @lukeburgis @Annette58550619 @deardrewdixon @HaroldSinnott
ALT René Magritte, Golconda (Golconde), 1953. Oil on canvas, 31½ × 39½ inches. The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. Each man stands apart, yet all conform: individuality, subject to approval. Image via Wikipedia. © C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Victor Borge-Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Humour without vulgarity, so funny...he's pure gold.
Unknown Advantage
Much of what we cannot bear to lose began as something we did not know to want.
@RyanHaecker @hedgehogreview @jayvanbavel @themarginalian
>> williamgreen.substack.com/p/…
ALT Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880–81. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Everyone has come for lunch. What else will come of it remains unknown. - Wikimedia Commons
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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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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…
William Green 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…
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Cavemen Issues Dire Warning That The Wheel Is Going To Eliminate Countless Jobs
Lonely Together
“All the lonely people/ Where do they all belong?” - Beatles, “Eleanor Rigby”
@rputland @MahalaxmiRaman @deardrewdixon @hedgehogreview
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ALT Edvard Munch: Evening on Karl Johan (1892) - Wikimedia Commons
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This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
Close Distance
“To love purely is to consent to distance.” — Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
@KRISTIN_B_T @deardrewdixon @MahalaxmiRaman @radical__middle
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“It’s a basketball novel the way Infinite Jest is a tennis novel: hilarious and exuberantly written, a virtuosic, language-obsessed reimagining of a classic story.”
defector.com/talking-to-a-na…
The Absence of Evil
“Evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.” —St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation, §4
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(Banksy, The Banality of the Banality of Evil (2013), modified oil painting. A Nazi soldier sits beside a mountain lake. Nothing disturbs the scene’s beauty.)
#Evil #Peace @deardrewdixon @MahalaxmiRaman @tmbejan @hedgehogreview
ALT Banksy, The Banality of the Banality of Evil (2013), modified oil painting. A Nazi soldier sits beside a mountain lake. Nothing disturbs the scene’s beauty.
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Can I suggest two of my own writings?
One is an article on 17th century aesthetics:
Judgement and Taste: from Shakespeare to Shaftesbury, available here: academia.edu/5473556/Judgeme…
This article came out in this volume, coedited by me:
2/1
