"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

snyder.substack.com

Congrats to @laramonteco.bsky.social!

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.

We have now announced our Susan Strange Best Book Prize shortlist of 3 excellent books 📚 to read more- buff.ly/vp0XnCY Congratulations to all the authors! 🎉 @epir-bisa.bsky.social @irss-bisa.bsky.social @bisa-global-health.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

A little piece I wrote for the ISRF on Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights

Independent Social Research Foundation@isrfoundation.bsky.social · last yr.

Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights (Or: Corporate Attempts to Obliterate Democracy, and Law as Terrain of Struggle) @laramonteco.bsky.social (@sussex.ac.uk) rethinks the relationship between #rights, #law, and #resistance in the face of #fascist resurgence. isrf.org/blog/liberal...

Two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University have filed a lawsuit seeking a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of two presidential orders that threaten to deport or jail those advocating for Palestinian rights. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gl

As universities engage in more "death spiral" cuts to academia, we need to focus on the intense bureaucratisation of the C21 university. A wannabe D-VC implements travel management outsourcing, and massive costs ensue. They've moved on before the disaster unfolds: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

academic.oup.com

"Democracy in America did not begin with a victory in court—and will require far more than one to save it." Don't miss the great Niko Bowie on the promise and perils of fighting Trump and Musk in federal courts.

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today, @nikobowie.bsky.social argues that the enforcement powers available to federal courts are simultaneously too limited, weak, and dangerous for us to depend on courts alone to save democracy.

It’s no Trump Party like a Moms 4 Liberty 4 Trump party. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump administration launches portal for reporting DEI in public schools

Website arrives before government’s two-week ultimatum to schools and universities to dismantle program

theguardian.com

I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides. International law is a discipline in crisis. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin

voelkerrechtsblog.org

Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...

thedigradio.com

By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

Stefan Boscia@stefanboscia.bsky.social · 2y ago

EXCL Keir Starmer has told his cabinet Labour must stop looking down on working class voters and their immigration concerns. In a letter to the cabinet, the PM wrote “good faith paternalism has too readily become looking down at people.” More in London Playbook www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...

Looks like an interesting addition to conversations some of us have been having over the past couple of years as part of the @isrfoundation.bsky.social study group on political affect with @carolynpedwell.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social and others

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

In dialogue with authors such as Primo Levi, Annie Ernaux, Virginie Despentes and James Baldwin, Frédéric Gros explores a concept that is little understood in its depth – shame. Now available for preorder - A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros www.versobooks.com/products/306...

Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."

My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review. Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad. 1/

The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review

Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.

bostonreview.net

There is no hurry guys, we are only boiling alive

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y ago

HSBC net zero goal delayed 20 years, as CEO offered 600% bonus. Bankers already live on another planet and are willing to let the earth burn to fuel their lust for profits. Shareholders don't care, customers have no representation on boards, regulators and govts let them wreak havoc.

Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people. This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up: #Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory, #internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,

📢Calling all prospective #MA students in #development #internationalrelations #geography #anthropology #migration #climatechange 🌍Global Studies🌍 at the University of Sussex🎓 is hosting a series of FREE #masterclasses on Tackling Urgent Global Challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/global/inter...

📣The Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) is now on Bluesky. Please give it a follow here for all things #IR Theory @sussexcait.bsky.social and repost. Thank you! For more information on the Centre: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

A carefully nuanced essay. Do read & share widely. The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology. - Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social) bit.ly/3CVWdQM

Nakba Denial — Parapraxis

On the politics of history and genocide Esmat Elhalaby

parapraxismagazine.com

I'm not going to be striking over pay - totally misguided venture, and even the ballot serves to sew confusion and discord

UCU Commons@ucucommons.org · 2y ago

🚨Attention UCU members in HE: we have started an open letter for you to sign in support of a motion we're bringing to the meeting on Weds 19th which calls for a focus on defending jobs, reforming HE, & calling off a national ballot. docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

It will be crucial to se where this goes...

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

At the @isrfoundation.bsky.social conference in Warsaw in October we watched Agnieszka Holland's incredible film, Green Border, and learnt about the extent of the horrors ongoing at the Poland-Belarus border. Here is journalist Joanna Klimowitz's important report for the ISRF:

Independent Social Research Foundation@isrfoundation.bsky.social · 2y ago

‘Migrants have been beaten, hounded by dogs and burned with cigarettes’ – Joanna Klimowicz reports on the frontline of the Poland-Belarus border crisis #GranicePolskie #ZielonaGranica www.isrf.org/2024/12/03/o...

Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty. Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

The Crisis of Democracy Is Here

And it’s going to get a lot worse.

persuasion.community

Looks like a really interesting event with my colleague @davidbrenner.bsky.social

David Brenner@davidbrenner.bsky.social · 2y ago

To be honest, I don't really know where Myanmar is heading. I don't think anyone does. There are too many moving parts. But it'll be good to reflect on them together and I much look forward to this conversation on Thursday. Join us if you are free! cpg-online.de/cpg-event/fo...

A report chaired by an epidemiologist with no scholarly background on settler colonialism is advising the university to tell students that it’s toxic to learn from its foremost historian of Israel and Palestine. jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-o...

The Perils of Universities’ Unscholarly Antisemitism Reports

By relying on pro-Israel organizations’ analysis of antisemitism—rather than recruiting the scholars on their own campuses—university antisemitism task…

jewishcurrents.org

Exactly - and it's a myth that this helpful for accessibility. A colleague and I were trying to explain at our away day on AI that, if we had had access to this as students with dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD, we would have been helped short term but probably never made it to become academics.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2y ago

Re universities' AI policies and student work: allowing essays to be "structured" with Chat GPT help and also writing "edits" is abdicating the very value of university-level education itself. these two elements are the hardest parts honing critical thinking and the difficult work of writing

Re universities' AI policies and student work: allowing essays to be "structured" with Chat GPT help and also writing "edits" is abdicating the very value of university-level education itself. these two elements are the hardest parts honing critical thinking and the difficult work of writing

I find it hard to believe that she doesn't know about, e.g., the campaign of collective punishment and systematic torture imposed by the British in Kenya in the 1950s. Takes a truly fanatical degree of pro-British nationalism to reconcile those atrocities with an image of "democracy and pluralism"

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2y ago

"In the 1960s, many former British colonies in Africa decided to move on from British values a lot of people preferred strong man politics and ethnic nationalism to democracy and pluralism." - Badenoch, the last remaining person who thinks that the 1964 Ghanian constitutional referendum was legit.