Andrea Capussela
@andreacapussela.bsky.social
📖 The Republic of Innovation (Polity), The Political Economy of Italy's Decline (Oxford), Declino Italia (Einaudi), State-Building in Kosovo (Bloomsbury)
✒️ Domani, Le Grand Continent, sometimes Financial Times
✒️ Domani, Le Grand Continent, sometimes Financial Times
'Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.'
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
'Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.'
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️
🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
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Read the review 👇
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Branko Milanović – is neoliberalism being replaced by something more capitalist? - LSE Review of Books
The Great Global Transformation by Branko Milanović explores China's economic rise, a new elite class & neoliberalism being replaced by a new international order
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October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️
🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
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🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
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Required reading: Sophie Bessis's essay on why the idea of Europe's 'judeo-christian' roots is 'une imposture': www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_civ...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
La civilisation judéo-chrétienne
www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Required reading: Sophie Bessis's essay on why the idea of Europe's 'judeo-christian' roots is 'une imposture': www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_civ...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
'Europe’s overt submission to Trump is emblematic of a broader malaise...They also routinely placate far-right forces at home. In doing so, they corrode the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law [etc.] – that they claim to uphold.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
'Europe’s overt submission to Trump is emblematic of a broader malaise...They also routinely placate far-right forces at home. In doing so, they corrode the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law [etc.] – that they claim to uphold.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.'
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.'
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says.
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
September 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says.
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
The richest capitalists & richest workers are increasingly the same people, writes @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
New Capitalism in America
The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people: replacing a class-based society, we now have an elite-ruled society
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The richest capitalists & richest workers are increasingly the same people, writes @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
Next to Dido Aeneas looks really bad. She is both heroic and human
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Next to Dido Aeneas looks really bad. She is both heroic and human
Di fronte a Didone Enea davvero appare meschino. Che personaggio lei!
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Di fronte a Didone Enea davvero appare meschino. Che personaggio lei!
'Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover'
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Notes pour une autonomie républicaine européenne | Le Grand Continent
« L'alternative est face à nous, parfaitement claire : union ou vassalisation — autonomie ou servitude. » En retraçant les événements d'un été de capitulations européennes, Andrea Capussela montre to...
legrandcontinent.eu
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
'Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover'
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
'Nobody knows how to reinvent 20th-century liberalism.'
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
America’s left cannot exploit Trump’s failures
The president’s genius is to keep pushing the Democrats into a reactive defence of the status quo
www.ft.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
'Nobody knows how to reinvent 20th-century liberalism.'
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
'For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts
Double-tap strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
'For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
Tell me about her truth-telling on Gaza and the west bank
Not sure how accurate it is to call @kajakallas.bsky.social the EU’s top diplomat, but she’s something even more essential: the EU’s top truth-teller. While other leaders pretend there’s a peace process, she correctly says that Putin has offered no concessions & can’t be trusted to stick to a deal.
🤖 Proposed Ukraine land concessions are Putin's trap, EU's top diplomat tells BBC
Key points:
• Kaja Kallas warns in a BBC interview against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia....
#Concessions #Putin #Kaja
Source: BBC News | What are your thoughts?
Key points:
• Kaja Kallas warns in a BBC interview against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia....
#Concessions #Putin #Kaja
Source: BBC News | What are your thoughts?
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tell me about her truth-telling on Gaza and the west bank
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo:
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
L’Impero e le sue ombre: teologia e geopolitica nel mondo di Trump - Il Grand Continent
Una serie di tre dialoghi di alto livello organizzati al Forte di Bard che riuniranno alcune delle più prestigiose firme del Grand Continent e del giornalismo italiano.
legrandcontinent.eu
August 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo:
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
Great. Liberals must explain their vision of the good life and how to realize it - or condemn themselves to lose. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.
newrepublic.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Great. Liberals must explain their vision of the good life and how to realize it - or condemn themselves to lose. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo:
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
L’Impero e le sue ombre: teologia e geopolitica nel mondo di Trump - Il Grand Continent
Una serie di tre dialoghi di alto livello organizzati al Forte di Bard che riuniranno alcune delle più prestigiose firme del Grand Continent e del giornalismo italiano.
legrandcontinent.eu
August 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo:
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Frankreichs Wut auf die USA: Es fehlt ein besseres Konzept
In Paris ist die Wut auf den Handelsdeal mit den USA groß. Doch es fehlt ein besseres Konzept.
www.faz.net
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Frankreichs Wut auf die USA: Es fehlt ein besseres Konzept
In Paris ist die Wut auf den Handelsdeal mit den USA groß. Doch es fehlt ein besseres Konzept.
www.faz.net
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Great idea: let Europe be represented before Trump by the person who acted most slavishly before him!
This former UK diplomat suggests Rutte (or leaf-picking Starmer; the argument is fluency in English) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This former UK diplomat suggests Rutte (or leaf-picking Starmer; the argument is fluency in English) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I used to run the Foreign Office. This is my advice for today’s extraordinary White House meeting
With so much at stake for Europe, the most important thing is to choose a lead speaker. I’d go with Starmer or Rutte, says former Foreign Office head Simon McDonald
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Great idea: let Europe be represented before Trump by the person who acted most slavishly before him!
This former UK diplomat suggests Rutte (or leaf-picking Starmer; the argument is fluency in English) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This former UK diplomat suggests Rutte (or leaf-picking Starmer; the argument is fluency in English) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
50 for 1: this poor man spoke his mind.
One would have been profoundly shocked to hear this in October 2023, but can one be equally shocked now?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
One would have been profoundly shocked to hear this in October 2023, but can one be equally shocked now?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim
‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
50 for 1: this poor man spoke his mind.
One would have been profoundly shocked to hear this in October 2023, but can one be equally shocked now?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
One would have been profoundly shocked to hear this in October 2023, but can one be equally shocked now?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Choosing the right words.
Read the 2024 ICJ opinion, saying that occupation is radically illegal and must end now, and then this @theguardian.com title.
Should a big new settlement be described as 'highly controversial', or simply as 'illegal'?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Read the 2024 ICJ opinion, saying that occupation is radically illegal and must end now, and then this @theguardian.com title.
Should a big new settlement be described as 'highly controversial', or simply as 'illegal'?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israel appears set to approve highly controversial 3,400-home West Bank settlement
Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he believes E1 plan will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Choosing the right words.
Read the 2024 ICJ opinion, saying that occupation is radically illegal and must end now, and then this @theguardian.com title.
Should a big new settlement be described as 'highly controversial', or simply as 'illegal'?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Read the 2024 ICJ opinion, saying that occupation is radically illegal and must end now, and then this @theguardian.com title.
Should a big new settlement be described as 'highly controversial', or simply as 'illegal'?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Designare l'avversario:
«Per l’Unione, scrive Lamy, 'Trump potrebbe rappresentare una minaccia di una gravità comparabile a...Putin'.
Sposterei sopra il condizionale: Washington, e non solo Trump, potrebbe rivelarsi una minaccia più insidiosa di Mosca» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
«Per l’Unione, scrive Lamy, 'Trump potrebbe rappresentare una minaccia di una gravità comparabile a...Putin'.
Sposterei sopra il condizionale: Washington, e non solo Trump, potrebbe rivelarsi una minaccia più insidiosa di Mosca» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Notes pour une autonomie républicaine européenne | Le Grand Continent
« L'alternative est face à nous, parfaitement claire : union ou vassalisation — autonomie ou servitude. » En retraçant les événements d'un été de capitulations européennes, Andrea Capussela montre to...
legrandcontinent.eu
August 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Designare l'avversario:
«Per l’Unione, scrive Lamy, 'Trump potrebbe rappresentare una minaccia di una gravità comparabile a...Putin'.
Sposterei sopra il condizionale: Washington, e non solo Trump, potrebbe rivelarsi una minaccia più insidiosa di Mosca» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
«Per l’Unione, scrive Lamy, 'Trump potrebbe rappresentare una minaccia di una gravità comparabile a...Putin'.
Sposterei sopra il condizionale: Washington, e non solo Trump, potrebbe rivelarsi una minaccia più insidiosa di Mosca» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Désigner l'adversaire:
«Pour l’Union, écrit Lamy, 'Trump pourrait représenter une menace d’une gravité comparable à...Poutine'.
On pourrait supprimer le conditionnel: au-delà de Trump, Washington s’avère pour nous une menace plus insidieuse que Moscou.»
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
«Pour l’Union, écrit Lamy, 'Trump pourrait représenter une menace d’une gravité comparable à...Poutine'.
On pourrait supprimer le conditionnel: au-delà de Trump, Washington s’avère pour nous une menace plus insidieuse que Moscou.»
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Notes pour une autonomie républicaine européenne | Le Grand Continent
« L'alternative est face à nous, parfaitement claire : union ou vassalisation — autonomie ou servitude. » En retraçant les événements d'un été de capitulations européennes, Andrea Capussela montre to...
legrandcontinent.eu
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Désigner l'adversaire:
«Pour l’Union, écrit Lamy, 'Trump pourrait représenter une menace d’une gravité comparable à...Poutine'.
On pourrait supprimer le conditionnel: au-delà de Trump, Washington s’avère pour nous une menace plus insidieuse que Moscou.»
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
«Pour l’Union, écrit Lamy, 'Trump pourrait représenter une menace d’une gravité comparable à...Poutine'.
On pourrait supprimer le conditionnel: au-delà de Trump, Washington s’avère pour nous une menace plus insidieuse que Moscou.»
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...