@christawirth.bsky.social
Historian in Europe: Cold War, Migration, Anthropology, Gender, Empire, Global History, USA, Philippines, Europe. This is my personal account.
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"This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity."
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity."
University austerity politics across European academic sector, such as Great Britain, Norway, and here Germany. The future of young people lies in the military, unfortunately. What consequences will this have for Europe as a democratic project?
(S+) Sparmaßnahmen an Hochschulen: Welche Studiengänge und Fächer bedroht sind
Viele Bundesländer müssen derzeit sparen, auch in der Bildung. Es droht das Aus für Studiengänge, Studienplätze und ganze Forschungsfelder. Was das für Studierende bedeutet.
www.spiegel.de
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
University austerity politics across European academic sector, such as Great Britain, Norway, and here Germany. The future of young people lies in the military, unfortunately. What consequences will this have for Europe as a democratic project?
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“The Baltic Sea region is facing an increasing range of threats, including suspected hybrid attacks from drones, alleged sabotage of underwater infrastructure and a steady flow of ageing oil tankers in the form of shadow fleet ships carrying crude oil from Russia.”
Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way
Moscow ‘continuously reinforcing’ its presence in the region, says Swedish chief of operations Capt Marko Petkovic
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“The Baltic Sea region is facing an increasing range of threats, including suspected hybrid attacks from drones, alleged sabotage of underwater infrastructure and a steady flow of ageing oil tankers in the form of shadow fleet ships carrying crude oil from Russia.”
Jetzt steht es schwarz auf weiss: Die USA sind einem demokratischen Europa feindlich gesinnt.
US-Sicherheitsdoktrin: Die Anti-Europa-Doktrin
Die neue Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie der USA ist ein weiterer brutaler Weckruf. Und eine Kampfansage an die demokratische Mitte in Europa.
www.zeit.de
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Jetzt steht es schwarz auf weiss: Die USA sind einem demokratischen Europa feindlich gesinnt.
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A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
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Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
‘Civilisational erasure’: US strategy document appears to echo far-right conspiracy theories about Europe
Official text, signed by Donald Trump, outlines plan to ‘cultivate resistance’ in EU nations to their ‘current trajectory’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.
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Nauseatingly brilliant piece by @moiradonegan.bsky.social
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Nauseatingly brilliant piece by @moiradonegan.bsky.social
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
Cheyette on discourse after Gaza: «but it is the role of the thinking activist to oppose external political pressures and (…) defend academic freedom. Above all, we must struggle for a comprehensive peace, and for Palestinian reparations to begin, as a prelude to righting a historic injustice.»
I am also pleased to see Bryan Cheyette's piece on how we can keep talking after 7 October and the overall zero sum game vision. Bryan is more optimistic than I am, but we need optimism.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What dialogue after Gaza?
The fifth war in Gaza this century is, at the time of writing, two years old with a massive loss of civilian life, including 20,000 children, and the obliteration of most of Gaza’s infrastructure. ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Cheyette on discourse after Gaza: «but it is the role of the thinking activist to oppose external political pressures and (…) defend academic freedom. Above all, we must struggle for a comprehensive peace, and for Palestinian reparations to begin, as a prelude to righting a historic injustice.»
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
Tomorrow in Kristiansand- we have invited Ilan Pappe. One of the leading experts on Israel/Palestine.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tomorrow in Kristiansand- we have invited Ilan Pappe. One of the leading experts on Israel/Palestine.
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Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
What We Know About U.S.-Backed Zero Units in Afghanistan
Deadly night raids. Faulty U.S. intelligence. A “classified” war loophole. Reporter Lynzy Billing’s investigation offers an unprecedented insight into the civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s Zero Uni...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
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I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.
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I am quoted in this Globe article as Director of American Studies at BU, and I like my quote very much:
“It's a value to society to have people highly educated in disciplines, whether they teach at universities or not.”
“It's a value to society to have people highly educated in disciplines, whether they teach at universities or not.”
"From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why?"
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/b...
From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why? - The Boston Globe
Elite universities are taking fewer doctoral candidates after decades of beefing up their research enterprises.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I am quoted in this Globe article as Director of American Studies at BU, and I like my quote very much:
“It's a value to society to have people highly educated in disciplines, whether they teach at universities or not.”
“It's a value to society to have people highly educated in disciplines, whether they teach at universities or not.”
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Vergewaltigung in der Ehe wurde in Deutschland erst 1997 kriminalisiert. Die vorausgegangenen Kämpfe von Feministinnen analysiert Hannah Catherine Davies in „Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat“. Im Podcast spricht sie mit @hannahschmidtott.bsky.social über Wandel, Staat und Strafe.
🎧: tinyurl.com/2bjjkh5e
🎧: tinyurl.com/2bjjkh5e
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Vergewaltigung in der Ehe wurde in Deutschland erst 1997 kriminalisiert. Die vorausgegangenen Kämpfe von Feministinnen analysiert Hannah Catherine Davies in „Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat“. Im Podcast spricht sie mit @hannahschmidtott.bsky.social über Wandel, Staat und Strafe.
🎧: tinyurl.com/2bjjkh5e
🎧: tinyurl.com/2bjjkh5e
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Zuwanderer bringen ein Plus von 100 Milliarden Euro im Jahr. Immer wieder zeigen Studien, dass eine aufnehmende Gesellschaft von Zuwanderung massiv profitiert. Nicht nur finanziell übrigens.
Migration: Neue Studie zeigt Nutzen von Zuwanderung in Deutschland
Der Wirtschaftsweise Martin Werding hat den Nutzen von Migration berechnet - und liefert damit neue Munition für eine hitzige Debatte.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Zuwanderer bringen ein Plus von 100 Milliarden Euro im Jahr. Immer wieder zeigen Studien, dass eine aufnehmende Gesellschaft von Zuwanderung massiv profitiert. Nicht nur finanziell übrigens.
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I have just re-read this. When it first came out I was taken aback by the headline &picture (probably not the decision of the author). We can quibble about details.But in essence Nick Clegg is right: we need more Europe,not less,we need to focus,&we need the U.K. back. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The EU must reinvent itself... or die | The Observer
World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I have just re-read this. When it first came out I was taken aback by the headline &picture (probably not the decision of the author). We can quibble about details.But in essence Nick Clegg is right: we need more Europe,not less,we need to focus,&we need the U.K. back. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...