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Hugo Drochon
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Associate Professor of Political Theory @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Author of 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' (Princeton 2016) and 'Elites and Democracy' (forthcoming Princeton 2026)
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Looking forward to giving a taste of my forthcoming book Elites and Democracy at the LSE European Institute tomorrow lunchtime!🍾
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Elites and democracy
www.lse.ac.uk
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jimambuske.bsky.social
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Straße, Platz, Palast: Zur Architektur demokratischer Räume (@suhrkamp.de, 2026; #skystorians) www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jan-wer...
Straße, Platz, Palast. Buch von Jan-Werner Müller (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Menschen gehen auf die Straße. Die Öffentlichkeit wird als Marktplatz der Ideen... | Buch von Jan-Werner Müller versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
www.suhrkamp.de
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
Alice Gregory, The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star (@newyorker.com): www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
Amina Hassani (@amiha.bsky.social), La justice du capital : Quand les multinationales (dé)font la loi (@lafabrique.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) lafabrique.fr/la-justice-d...
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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carolatack.bsky.social
My review of Ryan Balot's 'Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws' now published by Sehepunkte (in English); while I wasn't sure about the book's overall claim about the dialogue's philosophical coherence, I found much valuable analysis in it. www.sehepunkte.de/2025/11/4010...
SEHEPUNKTE - Rezension von: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws - Ausgabe 25 (2025), Nr. 11
Rezension über Ryan K. Balot: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024, XIV + 425 S., ISBN 978-0-1976-4722-6, GBP 78,00
www.sehepunkte.de
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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newhumanist.bsky.social
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who really runs Britain?

@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
Book review: Born to Rule
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who runs Britain?
newhumanist.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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samfriedman.bsky.social
Born to Rule on The Economist’s Top 10 Politics and Current Affairs books of the year 🎉🎉🎉🎉

www.economist.com/culture/2024...
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies
www.economist.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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stuartelden.bsky.social
Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality
Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wiss…
progressivegeographies.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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illsp.bsky.social
In case you missed it, a recording of our Nov 10 event with Laura Field on her book Furious Minds is now available on our YouTube channel. Check it out!

@lkatfield.bsky.social @libankerdc.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5h...
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
YouTube video by Illiberalism Studies Program
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November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
Next week, Nov 19 at 6:30 pm EST, Amanda Rubin joins the Leo Baeck Institute for a free, in-person talk on Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, which collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism, examining the effects of authoritarianism on the unconscious mind. buff.ly/4uo26y9
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation by Charlotte Beradt
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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hdrochon.bsky.social
Thrilled to have Georgios Varouxakis's fantastic new book finally in my hands! 🎉
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Save 30% on #NewBook "Senghor: Writings on Politics," which brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. It's edited & translated by Yohann C. Ripert. buff.ly/lCkuIeY
Cover of Senghor: Writings on Politics by Léopold Sédar Senghor, edited and translated by Yohann C. Ripert. The background resembles textured parchment. The background resembles textured parchment. The title “Senghor” appears in large red serif font at the top. Below, a green, sketch-like illustration shows Senghor writing at a desk.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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jiminwalkinstown.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book... wonderful review of new edition of #SeamusHeaney #poetry - example of the review as an art form in itself
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer
Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means
Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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giuseppegrieco.bsky.social
So happy that "The Legacy of the Enlightenment", which I co-edited with colleagues in Turin and the wonderful Fondazione 1563, is now available open access. Inside, also my chapter on the Neapolitan Enlightenment's theory of rights and the making of liberalism.
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Rights, Constitutions, Equality
Recent historiography often portrays the Enlightenment as the intellectual source of modern evils and projects contemporary biases on Enlightenment thinkers. Discussions on the legacy of the Enlighten...
en.olschki.it
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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giuseppegrieco.bsky.social
Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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philipoltermann.bsky.social
Another "special operation" or a Marx Brothers-style farce in which competing thieves tried to outwit one another? I wrote a long read about the curious disappearance of rare Russian books from European libraries www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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eosnos.bsky.social
Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Entfesselte Exekutive: Was Trump (für postliberale amerikanische Juristen) rechtfertigt (@redaktionmerkur.bsky.social, #Skystorians) www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/entf...
Entfesselte Exekutive – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Jan-Werner Müller. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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redaktionmerkur.bsky.social
Das Augustheft des Merkur, Nr.915

Jetzt in Print sowie in allen digitalen Formaten verfügbar:

Digital hier: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/ausgaben/hef...

Print hier: www.klett-cotta.de/produkt/merk...
Titelseite Augustheft des Merkur, 79. Jahrgang, Heft 915. Autor*innen und Titel des Hefts: NAVID KERMANI Der Westen, in dem ich geboren bin AXEL HONNETH Der Standpunkt moralischen Fortschritts HELMUT MÜLLER-SIEVERS / GREG LAUGERO Christian Meiers „Athen“. Und Trump MARIETTA AUER Zweckwidriges Recht. Rechtskolumne RACHEL NOLAN Der Niedergang Venezuelas JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL Bye, Bye Soft Power STEFAN KÜHL Zur Arbeit von Expertenkommissionen SUSANNE NEUFFER Recherche MARIUS GOLDHORN Die Prozesse ANKE STELLING Nur so viel (Sechs Superlative)
August 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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jwwsabapathy.bsky.social
An 'experimental' piece of writing by me @ucl-ias.bsky.social on Crawford Lake, the site proposed for the Anthropocene's location c.1950.

(Publication was delayed—it was written before the Subcommission for Quaternary Stratigraphy's rejection of the Anthropocene as an epoch).

#Anthropocene
Anthropocene Vernaculars: Crawford Lake
An experimental piece of writing tracing the histories of Crawford Lake, Ontario which was nominated as a global example of the Anthropocene.
thinkpieces-review.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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jbentonheath.bsky.social
New paper! This essay takes a step toward developing what I call a "jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence.: Building on @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social's groundbreaking work, I develop an account of the legal processes that facilitate the weaponization of networks. 1/x
The phenomenon of weaponized interdependence, as defined by political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, is a powerful tool for understanding today's global economic conflicts. But to date its uptake in the legal literature (including by this author) has been largely superficial, limited to the observation that economic interdependence coming under increased strain from the growing use of sanctions, export controls, investment screening, and similar measures. The real epistemic power of weaponized interdependence is to make political science nimble—able to identify and analyze similar dynamics across seemingly unconnected issue areas—remains largely untapped. This essay sketches an approach for developing a jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence, focusing on what Farrell and Newman term the "panopticon effect." It identifies four legal processes—herding, enclosure, legibility, and jurisdictional politics—which create the conditions for weaponizing a network. The essay develops an account of these four processes by reopening the case study of the SWIFT financial messaging system, which also figures prominently in Farrell and Newman's own work. The history of the SWIFT network, this essay argues, shows how law—defined broadly and understood across many sites of lawmaking—intervenes at critical points to create the conditions for weaponization. In developing this account, this essay also serves as a proof of concept for a broader jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence, which could make lawyers similarly nimble in confronting the manifold challenges of a politicized global economy in times of rapid technological change and rising authoritarianism.
July 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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benbraun.bsky.social
🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.

Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.

We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Screenshot of the title page of linked article: "Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks" By Benjamin Braun and Maximilian Düsterhöft
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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jeyalizade.bsky.social
Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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purseigle.bsky.social
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!

See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM