Peter Verpoorten 🌻 🌍 🇧🇪
@peterverpoorten.bsky.social
Proud dad of 4. Criminal defense lawyer, focused on mental health and human rights. MSc Pol Sci KULeuven. PhD student Political Theory @weareCEU.bsky.social studying Militant Democracy, justice & oppression, apathy, conflict & stability.
No surprise. It's all in the book.
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
No surprise. It's all in the book.
The nice thing about political theory as a research field, is that you can do it while swimming in the Donau.
June 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The nice thing about political theory as a research field, is that you can do it while swimming in the Donau.
A bit of spare time, so sitting in Erszébet Square in central Budapest wearing a @weareceu.bsky.social lanyard on the off chance Orban walks his dog here.
June 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A bit of spare time, so sitting in Erszébet Square in central Budapest wearing a @weareceu.bsky.social lanyard on the off chance Orban walks his dog here.
Back in Budapest to present a paper at the @ceudeminst.bsky.social workshop 'Who are the enemies of democracy?'
June 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Back in Budapest to present a paper at the @ceudeminst.bsky.social workshop 'Who are the enemies of democracy?'
Graduate Conference on Authority in beautiful Utrecht.
May 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Graduate Conference on Authority in beautiful Utrecht.
The US government is in the hands of what one can only describe as an informal Fascist Internationale. Karl Loewenstein warned for the risk of Authoritarian Regimes supporting each other internationally in his 1937 articles laying the groundwork for Militant Democracy.
May 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The US government is in the hands of what one can only describe as an informal Fascist Internationale. Karl Loewenstein warned for the risk of Authoritarian Regimes supporting each other internationally in his 1937 articles laying the groundwork for Militant Democracy.
Just going to leave this here.
April 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just going to leave this here.
Reading this on a beach in Crete. Recommended.
April 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reading this on a beach in Crete. Recommended.
They where already doing that years ago.
February 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They where already doing that years ago.
Ah, Vienna, never change.
September 24, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Ah, Vienna, never change.
Now clams are taking our jobs too.
September 3, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Now clams are taking our jobs too.
Two weeks ago in Seoul.
August 17, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Two weeks ago in Seoul.
Congratulations, NYTimes, you absolute gutter rag.
July 8, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Congratulations, NYTimes, you absolute gutter rag.
Russian sponsored right wingers threatening to win elections in your country too? Here is some solid advice.
February 25, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Russian sponsored right wingers threatening to win elections in your country too? Here is some solid advice.
This map is very funny next to that chart.
January 27, 2024 at 7:44 PM
This map is very funny next to that chart.
Nope. They are incapable of that.
November 8, 2023 at 7:17 AM
Nope. They are incapable of that.
Ah, well... Then we just move the grim expectations to the next election...
November 8, 2023 at 7:15 AM
Ah, well... Then we just move the grim expectations to the next election...
Austrian national holiday. What better to do than a visit to the Constitutional Court?
October 26, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Austrian national holiday. What better to do than a visit to the Constitutional Court?