Rafael Khachaturian
@rafkhach.bsky.social
Political theorist, educator, translator. Teaching at Penn and BISR.
www.rafaelkhachaturian.com
www.rafaelkhachaturian.com
Curtis Sliwa looks like he is ready to negotiate the transition to democracy in a southern European country after the generalissimo has died.
June 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Curtis Sliwa looks like he is ready to negotiate the transition to democracy in a southern European country after the generalissimo has died.
Barack hitting the phones between now and November
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Barack hitting the phones between now and November
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I had the pleasure of joining @rafkhach.bsky.social for a convo on 20 years of Brazilian politics -- from the Workers’ Party and the Pink Tide, through the 2013 protests and Bolsonaro’s rise, to Lula’s current term and the Left’s contradictions in power. mitchellcenter.libsyn.com/episode-72-b...
The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast: Episode 7.2: Brazil's Pink Tide and the Politics of Redistribution
In this episode, host RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN speaks with sociologist and political theorist NARA ROBERTA SILVA about the trajectory of Brazil’s left over the past two decades. Together, they unpack the r...
mitchellcenter.libsyn.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I had the pleasure of joining @rafkhach.bsky.social for a convo on 20 years of Brazilian politics -- from the Workers’ Party and the Pink Tide, through the 2013 protests and Bolsonaro’s rise, to Lula’s current term and the Left’s contradictions in power. mitchellcenter.libsyn.com/episode-72-b...
Whenever my extended family asks me about @laurabucci.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Whenever my extended family asks me about @laurabucci.bsky.social
A New Deal for Higher Ed where you and all your academic friends go to work at community colleges.
May 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A New Deal for Higher Ed where you and all your academic friends go to work at community colleges.
A year ago, I'd have guessed that widespread AI adoption into white collar work is going to bifurcate the labor force, with only the most prestigious layers still getting meaningful training in reading and writing. Now, looking at the Ivies, I was probably way too optimistic.
May 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A year ago, I'd have guessed that widespread AI adoption into white collar work is going to bifurcate the labor force, with only the most prestigious layers still getting meaningful training in reading and writing. Now, looking at the Ivies, I was probably way too optimistic.
It's weird when adults say hi to your baby but not to you. What are you supposed to do? Say hi for them? Say hi for yourself? Smile and keep walking??
April 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's weird when adults say hi to your baby but not to you. What are you supposed to do? Say hi for them? Say hi for yourself? Smile and keep walking??
One of the lasting insights from postwar scholarship on authoritarian regimes where the rule of law no longer holds up is that they encourage internal radicalization, as mid-tier operatives scramble to outdo each other to impress the leader.
Breaking News: Trump officials blame a mistake for setting off the tectonic confrontation with Harvard. nyti.ms/4ioHtIT
April 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
One of the lasting insights from postwar scholarship on authoritarian regimes where the rule of law no longer holds up is that they encourage internal radicalization, as mid-tier operatives scramble to outdo each other to impress the leader.
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Basically everyone who talks about 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 regularly ends up going insane because it is considered completely unacceptable to acknowledge things like "A country where some people are denied the right to vote based on their ethnicity is not a democracy" that are objectively true statements.
April 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Basically everyone who talks about 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 regularly ends up going insane because it is considered completely unacceptable to acknowledge things like "A country where some people are denied the right to vote based on their ethnicity is not a democracy" that are objectively true statements.
If interwar fascism was a modernist phenomenon, turning to myth as a response to the uprooting of metaphysical foundations, its American cousin is thoroughly postmodernist, playfully and consciously embracing the lack of any meaning apart from that measured by capital.
April 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If interwar fascism was a modernist phenomenon, turning to myth as a response to the uprooting of metaphysical foundations, its American cousin is thoroughly postmodernist, playfully and consciously embracing the lack of any meaning apart from that measured by capital.
Pulling up to the Capital reading group with this
April 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Pulling up to the Capital reading group with this
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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Can you please think for a second how this data is about to be used by people without great intentions?
You’re playing with fire.
You’re playing with fire.
Here are the party leanings of various universities.
Look at how right-leaning BYU (my alma-mater) employees are! {BYU employees are significantly more to the right than even Liberty U. employees--wow!}
Look at how right-leaning BYU (my alma-mater) employees are! {BYU employees are significantly more to the right than even Liberty U. employees--wow!}
April 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can you please think for a second how this data is about to be used by people without great intentions?
You’re playing with fire.
You’re playing with fire.
I am once again asking you to join @aaup.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I am once again asking you to join @aaup.bsky.social
I never knew Michelle Trachtenberg, but she went to junior high in my neighborhood (Bay Academy) and we literally had common acquaintances/friends of friends. This, plus growing up a Nickelodeon kid, really does feel like hearing a former classmate died.
March 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I never knew Michelle Trachtenberg, but she went to junior high in my neighborhood (Bay Academy) and we literally had common acquaintances/friends of friends. This, plus growing up a Nickelodeon kid, really does feel like hearing a former classmate died.
Reposted by Rafael Khachaturian
750 political scientists in support of democracy*
*unless there’s a networking event and you “have to” cross a picket line
*unless there’s a networking event and you “have to” cross a picket line
February 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
750 political scientists in support of democracy*
*unless there’s a networking event and you “have to” cross a picket line
*unless there’s a networking event and you “have to” cross a picket line
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Philly, come out to 2000 Market right now and say it loud: hands off our healthcare, hands off our research, hands off our jobs!
February 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Philly, come out to 2000 Market right now and say it loud: hands off our healthcare, hands off our research, hands off our jobs!
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another Thing I Will Keep Saying: there is of course an important moral case for internationalism. but the practical case for it can start by simply noticing how internationalist the people robbing you are (however nationalist their rhetoric might be)
“The lawsuit appeared to represent an astonishing effort by Mr. Trump to pressure a foreign judge as he weighed the fate of a fellow right-wing leader who, like him, was indicted on charges that he tried to overturn his election loss.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
Trump Media Group Sues Brazilian Judge Weighing Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
The lawsuit came hours after the justice received an indictment of Brazil’s former president, who is an ally of President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
another Thing I Will Keep Saying: there is of course an important moral case for internationalism. but the practical case for it can start by simply noticing how internationalist the people robbing you are (however nationalist their rhetoric might be)
Maybe it was a bad idea to combine presidentialism with a FPTP duopoly in which one party, against conventional wisdom, has been colonized by its extreme wing.
February 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Maybe it was a bad idea to combine presidentialism with a FPTP duopoly in which one party, against conventional wisdom, has been colonized by its extreme wing.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a snake oil man
February 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a snake oil man
Brainstorming poli sci course proposals at a university under the right wing microscope 🫠
February 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Brainstorming poli sci course proposals at a university under the right wing microscope 🫠
At last RFK Jr can reboot the real family business: rum running from Canada
February 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
At last RFK Jr can reboot the real family business: rum running from Canada
It is 2027. "The cruelty is the point!!" I sob, as I am herded into an AI-run Kyle Rittenhouse Reeducation Center at Hillsdale College-Philadelphia.
January 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It is 2027. "The cruelty is the point!!" I sob, as I am herded into an AI-run Kyle Rittenhouse Reeducation Center at Hillsdale College-Philadelphia.
My kid is finally realizing they are a sentient human being and is not having it.
January 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My kid is finally realizing they are a sentient human being and is not having it.