Annelien de Dijn

@adedijn.bsky.social

Intellectual historian. Author of FREEDOM: AN UNRULY HISTORY (HUP, 2020) and RETHINKING LIBERTY BEFORE LIBERALISM (ed. with Hannah Dawson) (CUP, 2022).

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

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So much news about the far-right turn of French elites these days that I'm making a thread... 👇🧵 #1: Jordan Bardella (Marine Le Pen's sub if she can't run in 2027) is dating Louis XVI's heiress, Princess Maria de Bourbon Deux-Siciles. Rassemblement National officials call it a 'modern fairytale'...

Jordan Bardella and Princess Maria Carolina de Bourbon Deux Siciles

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Veel op aan te merken, maar het meest opvallend is de kritiek op mission statements. De suggestie is dat universiteiten een soort neutrale marktplaats der ideeën moeten zijn. Maar is het zo raar dat wetenschappelijke consensus (bijv. over klimaatverandering) het universitair beleid mede informeert?

Opiniestukken@opiniestukken.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In NRC: Linkse dominantie op de universiteit ondergraaft vertrouwen in wetenschap

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dit is een van de leukste en meest inspirerende projecten waar ik aan meewerk. Op de werkplek van de toekomst is geen plek voor Google, Meta en Microsoft. Koopt allen Europeesche waren. Of nog beter: ontwikkel/gebruik Europeesche open source waren.

Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ook in Nederland kan het: De @rug.nl in 2030 los van Big Tech. No #microsoft et al @linuxkernel.bsky.social @libreoffice.bsky.social #surfdrive community-edtech.npuls.nl/groups/view/...

part of me envies the twenty-second-century historians who will have the opportunity to read French, German, Chinese and Russian intelligence assessments of Trump and his administration