Melvin Rogers
@prorogers.bsky.social
Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor Political Science Department @ Brown University Teaches Political Theory Book: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (PUP)
My essay "A Civic Education that Extends America" is out today. www.liberalism.org/p/a-civic-ed...
A Civic Education That Extends America
Educating the next generation in American civic culture has always been important. Now more than ever, we must extend that promise to all.
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Is the America 250 discourse - even the takes made in good faith - failing to tell the full truth of the nation's past? Important question to consider.
Melvin Rogers@prorogers.bsky.social · 3w agoAt 250 years, America is being offered three origin stories, refusal, recovery, and ethno-nationalist sovereignty. All three ask us to stop trusting one another. In my new piece, I reflect on the stakes of our fascination with origin stories. Have a read: www.anativeson.org/p/the-idolat...
At 250 years, America is being offered three origin stories, refusal, recovery, and ethno-nationalist sovereignty. All three ask us to stop trusting one another. In my new piece, I reflect on the stakes of our fascination with origin stories. Have a read: www.anativeson.org/p/the-idolat...
The Idolatry of Origins: America at 250 Years
by Melvin L. Rogers, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor, Brown University
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AAU institutions reported a 15% drop in PhD admissions this year, after an 11% drop the prior year www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Always worth your while to listen to @prorogers.bsky.social!
Liberalism.org@liberalism.org · 4w ago"These figures, from Walker to Baldwin, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells in the middle, insisted that we have to disentangle freedom from sovereignty and understand that freedom always meant vulnerability." — Melvin Rogers Listen to the full episode: www.liberalism.org/podcast/free...
This Juneteenth, listen to Black stories, told by Black voices. To Build a Black Future, written by Christopher Paul Harris and read by Landon Woodson: buff.ly/RzdjKYr The Darkened Light of Faith, written by @prorogers.bsky.social and read by Diontae Black: buff.ly/g6W87Oa BOGO with code AUDIO26!
The video from our dialogue “250 Years Towards Racial Justice: Progress, Promise, and Challenges” with Bishop-elect Robert Boxie III, Melvin Rogers (@prorogers.bsky.social), Diann Rust-Tierney, and Kimberly Mazyck is now available: youtube.com/watch?v=2Zh_m3Hc-LI #RacialJustice250CST #Juneteenth
250 Years Towards Racial Justice: Progress, Promise, and Challenges
YouTube video by Global Georgetown
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RSVP to the dialogue on Monday, June 15th at 12:30 p.m. EDT at bit.ly/RacialJustice250CST #RacialJustice250CST @prorogers.bsky.social
250 Years Towards Racial Justice
As we celebrate Juneteenth and our nation’s 250th anniversary and Juneteenth, this dialogue will look at the Voting Rights Act and its future – including the recent Supreme Court decision on Section 2...
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Looking forward to this conversation!!
Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life@gucstpubliclife.bsky.social · 2mo ago250 Years Towards Racial Justice: Progress, Promise, and Challenges 🗓️ Monday, June 15, 2026 🕧 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EDT 📍 Online via Livestream 🗣️ Bishop-elect Robert Boxie III, @prorogers.bsky.social, Diann Rust-Tierney, and Kimberly Mazyck (moderator) 🔗 bit.ly/RacialJustice250CST #RacialJustice250CST
So honored to be part of this group!
Andrew Carnegie Foundation@carnegie.org · 3mo agoAnnouncing the 2026 Andrew #CarnegieFellows! Selected from a record 381 nominations, 24 fellows will each receive $200K to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more: www.carnegie.org/news/article... #Polarization #Research
It is great to receive good personal news. The Darkened Light of Faith keeps giving.
Tapping the @prorogers.bsky.social /Baldwin sign: "To be a moral monster is to betray, we might say, the demand of thick relationships that define our shared political lives. This is the price of innocence and what makes it a crime."
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe eternal innocence of “the American people.” Look, I love my neighbors, but we’re never coming out the other side of this if we can’t own up to what we’ve done.
I'm thrilled to share my new podcast at the just-launched Liberalism.org. Now: Chandran Kukathas Next: Elizabeth Anderson and Jacob Levy Soon: Ed Glaeser, Simone Chambers, Melvin Rogers, Mikayla Novak, Theodore Schatzki Listen: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...
JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
University Assistant Professor in Political Theory
Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be
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It was an honor to chat with Lucas Morel about the Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality. Grateful for the invitation from the National Constitution Center. Have a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocwb...
The Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality
YouTube video by National Constitution Center
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So satisfying to read these three together. There is a rich conversation taking place. 😀
So satisfying to read these three together. There is a rich conversation taking place. 😀
So proud to work on this book series with Christia Mercer: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy. @esglaude.bsky.social @nneka.bsky.social
So excited to have this book on my hands. Thanks to @prorogers.bsky.social and Christia Mercer and their wonderful work editing the Oxford Nee Histories of Philosophy series. We also have another volume of his writings on the way!
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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 10mo agoSave 70% on @prorogers.bsky.social's The Darkened Light of Faith, an ambitious account of the profound ways African Americans have reimagined #democracy, through 10/31: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... *Offer applies to orders shipping within the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, & Australia.
