Alex DeVitry
@alexdevitry.bsky.social
Grad student in International Security Policy. Read and think a lot about democracy and political philosophy as a side hustle. Also a major geek.
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Students and teachers of political philosophy are invited to the online book launch of the edited volume 'Pluralizing Political Philosophy':
crookedtimber.org/2025/05/12/o...
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Online book launch ‘Pluralizing Political Philosophy’ — Crooked Timber
crookedtimber.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Students and teachers of political philosophy are invited to the online book launch of the edited volume 'Pluralizing Political Philosophy':
crookedtimber.org/2025/05/12/o...
crookedtimber.org/2025/05/12/o...
The eruption of political violence always floods the internet with bullshit explanations for war. Adequate explanations for India-Pakistan will account for one or more of: Colonial history/partition, energy/climate disaster, realist logics amid global reorganization of power.
May 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The eruption of political violence always floods the internet with bullshit explanations for war. Adequate explanations for India-Pakistan will account for one or more of: Colonial history/partition, energy/climate disaster, realist logics amid global reorganization of power.
It's behind a paywall for me but if this is arguing that Peter Theil is living according to Tolkien's ethics then it's written by a fake fan.
This is one of the most illiterate pieces of literary analysis and social commentary i've ever seen. You guys are Sauron you numpty. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The Lord of the Rings gave me my moral compass
In a recent diary for The Spectator, the editor noted that many of the world’s leading tech companies have names inspired by The Lord of the Rings: Peter Thiel’s Palantir and Mithril; Palmer Luckey’s ...
www.spectator.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's behind a paywall for me but if this is arguing that Peter Theil is living according to Tolkien's ethics then it's written by a fake fan.
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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
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I just shared this with my university administrators.
85% of political scientists say antisemitism not a major problem in their campus - in line with the results of our MESB survey - and over 90% see pressure on universities over it as a threat to democracy
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Antisemitism crisis on campus? 85% of political scientists say no.
Plus, a rich new weekly roundup of scholarship on the Middle East.
As regular readers know, Shibley Telhami and I have for several years been tracking the views of Middle East academic experts about ...
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
May 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I just shared this with my university administrators.
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Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
May 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
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it has taken me a minute to finish, but if you’re a 19th century american history/legal theory nerd you will love this book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Interbellum Constitution
A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. consti...
yalebooks.yale.edu
May 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it has taken me a minute to finish, but if you’re a 19th century american history/legal theory nerd you will love this book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
2024 Time Series Study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
We read philosophers of the past because the past is still part of our world, not utterly absent. Though Aristotle never experienced capitalism, but he did experience community, suffering, and humanity. If we value people's experiences, it shouldn't matter that they're dead.
May 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We read philosophers of the past because the past is still part of our world, not utterly absent. Though Aristotle never experienced capitalism, but he did experience community, suffering, and humanity. If we value people's experiences, it shouldn't matter that they're dead.
Debate-me-bro culture treats political engagement like it is a game of chess; deploying pre-memorized bytes of mini-rhetorics at one another as if they were moves in a chess game, each seeking to trap the other. This can never be the basis of a successful politic. #UFAmericatour
May 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Debate-me-bro culture treats political engagement like it is a game of chess; deploying pre-memorized bytes of mini-rhetorics at one another as if they were moves in a chess game, each seeking to trap the other. This can never be the basis of a successful politic. #UFAmericatour
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The Voter Suppression Executive Order everyone knew was coming. 👇
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
March 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The Voter Suppression Executive Order everyone knew was coming. 👇
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Just want to make sure that everyone sees @erincikanek.bsky.social's masterpiece of service to the field
February 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just want to make sure that everyone sees @erincikanek.bsky.social's masterpiece of service to the field
Im listening to the oral arguments from yesterday's appellate court hearing re: Alien Enemies Act. The DoJ guy is literally making the Palpatine argument.
March 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Im listening to the oral arguments from yesterday's appellate court hearing re: Alien Enemies Act. The DoJ guy is literally making the Palpatine argument.
The list of White House demands should be a non-starter. There is not a single point on that list that is remotely compatible with freedom of thought.
March 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The list of White House demands should be a non-starter. There is not a single point on that list that is remotely compatible with freedom of thought.
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Right-wing populism in the 2020s is mostly about breaking norms. In the 2030s, it will be about exploiting those broken norms to entrench anti-democratic projects.
March 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Right-wing populism in the 2020s is mostly about breaking norms. In the 2030s, it will be about exploiting those broken norms to entrench anti-democratic projects.
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YouTube experts said “You can’t grow a channel working just 3hrs/day from bed.” Then I got worse-working 1hr/day.
Yet my second channel, Vlad Vexler Chat, just hit 100K subs with unedited smartphone videos!
My commentaries, on Chat and the main channel, received 40M views.
Yet my second channel, Vlad Vexler Chat, just hit 100K subs with unedited smartphone videos!
My commentaries, on Chat and the main channel, received 40M views.
March 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
YouTube experts said “You can’t grow a channel working just 3hrs/day from bed.” Then I got worse-working 1hr/day.
Yet my second channel, Vlad Vexler Chat, just hit 100K subs with unedited smartphone videos!
My commentaries, on Chat and the main channel, received 40M views.
Yet my second channel, Vlad Vexler Chat, just hit 100K subs with unedited smartphone videos!
My commentaries, on Chat and the main channel, received 40M views.
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The witch hunt is on. Can report first-hand that the arrest of Khalil has international students and faculty justifiably terrified. More than one person cried in my office today. I cry too for this country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
March 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The witch hunt is on. Can report first-hand that the arrest of Khalil has international students and faculty justifiably terrified. More than one person cried in my office today. I cry too for this country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
March 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
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LOUISIANA PEOPLE!
I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary.
He’s a swing vote!
It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls.
He’s a vote that can be flipped:
- he’s a doctor
- pro-vaccine🧵
I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary.
He’s a swing vote!
It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls.
He’s a vote that can be flipped:
- he’s a doctor
- pro-vaccine🧵
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
LOUISIANA PEOPLE!
I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary.
He’s a swing vote!
It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls.
He’s a vote that can be flipped:
- he’s a doctor
- pro-vaccine🧵
I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary.
He’s a swing vote!
It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls.
He’s a vote that can be flipped:
- he’s a doctor
- pro-vaccine🧵
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The starter pack is also a list. I use this and find it helpful. Obv the folks on here post about lots of things unrelated to their work on Islam, but this list helps me see posts in the area I might otherwise miss.
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January 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The starter pack is also a list. I use this and find it helpful. Obv the folks on here post about lots of things unrelated to their work on Islam, but this list helps me see posts in the area I might otherwise miss.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
The OMB freeze is the latest move in a package which is designed to advance the centralization of power in the executive. Opposition today can and will partially counteract this move, but it must be coupled with planning the successor system of the populist moment after its eventual apoptosis.
January 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The OMB freeze is the latest move in a package which is designed to advance the centralization of power in the executive. Opposition today can and will partially counteract this move, but it must be coupled with planning the successor system of the populist moment after its eventual apoptosis.
What are the ways in which we can read the President’s intervention with TikTok?
Normal, just high profile.
More expansion of executive power over legislative power.
Neopatrimonialism.
Reactionary partisanship.
Strategic partisanship.
Clientelism.
What else? Can be inconsistent/contradictory.
Normal, just high profile.
More expansion of executive power over legislative power.
Neopatrimonialism.
Reactionary partisanship.
Strategic partisanship.
Clientelism.
What else? Can be inconsistent/contradictory.
January 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
What are the ways in which we can read the President’s intervention with TikTok?
Normal, just high profile.
More expansion of executive power over legislative power.
Neopatrimonialism.
Reactionary partisanship.
Strategic partisanship.
Clientelism.
What else? Can be inconsistent/contradictory.
Normal, just high profile.
More expansion of executive power over legislative power.
Neopatrimonialism.
Reactionary partisanship.
Strategic partisanship.
Clientelism.
What else? Can be inconsistent/contradictory.
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For students interested in a PhD working on political conflict in Africa, the wonderful Corinna Jentzsch at Leiden is hiring two PhD candidates for a project on Islamist insurgencies, one focusing on Mozambique & the other on Nigeria, w/qualitative methdos www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions)
PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions, each 1.0 fte)The Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites ...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
January 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For students interested in a PhD working on political conflict in Africa, the wonderful Corinna Jentzsch at Leiden is hiring two PhD candidates for a project on Islamist insurgencies, one focusing on Mozambique & the other on Nigeria, w/qualitative methdos www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
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The overwhelming likelihood is that the American Democracy will still stand after the second Trump administration. The task is not to “save” democracy now, but to preserve its core functions through the populist political moment into the 2040s. 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The overwhelming likelihood is that the American Democracy will still stand after the second Trump administration. The task is not to “save” democracy now, but to preserve its core functions through the populist political moment into the 2040s. 🧵