Rafael Khachaturian
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Rafael Khachaturian
@rafkhach.bsky.social
Political theorist, educator, translator. Teaching at Penn and BISR.

www.rafaelkhachaturian.com
Curtis Sliwa looks like he is ready to negotiate the transition to democracy in a southern European country after the generalissimo has died.
June 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Barack hitting the phones between now and November
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Whenever my extended family asks me about @laurabucci.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Pulling up to the Capital reading group with this
April 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I am once again asking you to join @aaup.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a snake oil man
February 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The mirror stage
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Not sure. I emailed asking for an explanation.
December 30, 2024 at 10:32 PM
I replied:
December 30, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Absolutely insane policy.
December 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Playing with no rhythm or melody whatsoever to introduce my child to atonal music.
December 24, 2024 at 2:32 PM
The Irishman is a Christmas film.
December 24, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I visited my mom yesterday, and she sent me back home with a platter full of gata.
December 21, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Señor Perez needs a union.
December 19, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I mapped the road trip from The Irishman. 10 hours, or three days (with cigarette breaks)
December 19, 2024 at 4:13 AM
It's a warm fall evening in 2006, you're taking the Q back home to Brooklyn from an afternoon in the city, your s/o is napping on your shoulder, your iPod is synced, tomorrow is a Friday.
December 17, 2024 at 12:43 AM
They sensed the zeitgeist
December 10, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Makin' sauce.
December 9, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Lol, omg, hoo boy
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 PM
December 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Triptych:
December 5, 2024 at 4:21 AM
This has lived rent-free in my head since I became a parent.
December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Still making my way through it, but Alex Anievas' and Kerem Nişancioğlu's How the West Came to Rule is such an impressive work. It's rare to encounter a theoretical synthesis that takes important insights from often opposed interpretations and fuses them into something original.
December 3, 2024 at 2:42 AM
That one time Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran crossed paths with Joe Biden in 1972:
December 2, 2024 at 1:26 AM
That photo is giving these vibes.
December 1, 2024 at 3:16 AM