“Circumstantial liberals” concluded their book tour across 10 countries, Prague to Vancouver, Lisbon to Gothenburg. It ended appropriately in Washington D.C., where Martin Luther King once had a dream. The dream of the book is that we stop thinking of ethnicity as a problem, but as an opportunity.

Circumstantial Liberals have visited Gothenburg and Lund. Great discussions with colleagues! Many thanks to Johannes Lindval and @jonathanpolk.bsky.social for the invitation and hosting.

I spent all of this morning here. There is a seat, so I sat there, and read a number of articles in preparation of a literature review for a paper. Whenever my eyes left the page, I gazed at the winter scene on the Seine as seen by Monet over a century ago. He may need to go in the acknowledgments.

Polish election: breakdown by age. The lesson is that younger people are of course more likely to vote for the democratic opposition, but also more likely for the radical right Konfederacja. Education will play a key role.

Christian Boltanski at the Musée d’Art Moderne — fragments of humanity: leftover clothing, anonymous photos of kids, and all phone directories of the world. The fragility and passing of existence… (Found my grandparents’ number)

Silly BBC is talking about bedbugs as a Paris problem threatening the Olympics. The real problem is long term underfunding of public transport. Stop subsidizing gasoline and subsidize trains instead! (Walking to work)

Slovak election results — victory of pro-Russian populist Smer, but Progressive Slovakia is second. Some interesting coalition building to come…

Is it normal that government officials come to meetings with folders of paper? Is it about security, ecology, or are they just in the wrong century? I use almost no paper anymore. Electronic is much better for noting and indexing. How can they function with paper folders?

A sunny Sunday — hope yours was too