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In our latest podcast episode, @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I look at Shmitt's "The Concept of the Political" and explore how his idea of the Friend/Enemy dynamic is increasingly relevant to the volatile polarization in our modern democracies. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/179403645?
Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political
While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics
rolfstromolsen.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's finally live! Listen to "While Our Students Are Sleeping." Join me and Rolf as we dissect political theory for our students. Our first few episodes are about Carl Schmitt, trad-cath Nazi jurist. All relation to current events is strictly non-coincidential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
While Our Students Are Sleeping: the Theory & Politics Podcast
Philosophy Podcast · A podcast with a couple of political theory professors that explores the thinkers, ideas and debates that inform our modern political landscape. rolfstromolsen.substack.com
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November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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In IE Insights today, I write that Europe needs to de-risk from the U.S. or face a major, digitally-mediated identity crisis. www.ie.edu/insights/art...
Europe Must Confront Donald Trump – or Lose Its Identity | IE Insights
Europe faces growing pressure from U.S. tech and politics, but its strength lies in upholding democratic values through rights-based regulation and autonomy, writes Reed Van Schenck.
www.ie.edu
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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New article just dropped! "Christian Nationalism as Media" explores how the political identity of Christian Nationalism retrieves racist and sexist ideas of the human through its obsession with owning and controlling the media. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Christian Nationalism as Media | International Journal of Communication
ijoc.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Check out this resource library NCA has launched! "Addressing Authoritarianism" is a resource to enable successful pedagogical, research, creative, and administrative interventions into authoritarianism and fascism. www.natcom.org/addressing-a...
Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library - National Communication Association
Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library This resource library has been compiled by NCA members and others to provide public resources to teach, think, and write about the current rise of autho...
www.natcom.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Check out my review of @transform6789.bsky.social's fascinating and all-too-timely book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. And if that doesn't sound like too much nausea for a summer, read the book!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Today's a good day for bunnies in the backyard
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Wow @reedvanschenck.bsky.social absolutely killing it on the top papers of ethnicity race & comm panel w their paper on white supremacists, Telegram, and interfaces
June 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You know it's time to retire when you say "are ya' ready kids?" and nobody says "aye aye, captain" #teaching
June 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Way to go!!! Definitely going to be reading it!
I just signed a book contract!

The Reactionary Web is a book about why white supremacists manage to stay online, and what that teaches us about the racist conceits of the internet at large.

Coming in 2026 from @brisunipress.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Spoiled!
June 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This beauty decided to hang out in the yard today! #greatblueheron #birds
May 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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How could the Democratic leadership so easily cave to MAGA asks the mainstream media corporations that reacted to Trump's frivolous lawsuits by contributing millions to his presidential library.
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Congrats to the creators of Flow!
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Such an incredible movie!
February 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Guys I'm starting to get the sense that people didn't vote for Trump because they care about the price of eggs...
January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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There are so many to choose from but this has always been my favorite Steinlen cat. 1909. emuseum.mfah.org/objects/4936...
January 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
At least....
December 14, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Look, if cranberries can be weird and bitter and still liked by roughly half the people at Thanksgiving dinner, then so can you!
November 28, 2024 at 1:39 PM
November 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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How can we push past deplatforming to foster a democratic internet? 🖥️ @reedvanschenck.bsky.social’s #MediaWell review delves into strategies to counter the far-right online. Discover the insights: mediawell.ssrc.org/research-rev...
Beyond Deplatforming, Against the Far-Right, and Towards a Democratic Internet – MediaWell
mediawell.ssrc.org
August 12, 2024 at 7:06 PM