An understatement. Their worst election result in European or national elections since 1901.

Taking questions from students...

This looks awesome.

Looking for alternatives to moribund liberalism? On Dec 5, I will be in conversation with Jenny Andersson on Scandinavian social democracy as an alternative to liberal democracy. The event will take place on Zoom. For more details: amc.sas.upenn.edu/event/scandina…

Open to all but registration is required.

Excited to be speaking with Jenny Andersson tomorrow about the differences between social democracy and liberal democracy. Event is open to all but registration is required: upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Please join!

The sleight of hand between "modern democracy" and "liberal democracy" in the opening paragraph is symptomatic.

In 2023, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that in her eyes the distance between the US and Denmark should be less than paper thin. Who knows, maybe she will get what she wished for... bbc.com/news/articles/…

On Thursday I will be speaking with Jenny Andersson about social democracy as an alternative to liberal democracy. A small step to follow Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins recent suggestion that we need to pay more attention to the history of the left. More info:amc.sas.upenn.edu/event/scandina…

This is tonight!

Recent German politics is basically what happens when you tie Ulysses to the mast as the ship approaches an iceberg.

Maybe you could be excused for a statement like this 15 years ago, but today it is a well-established fact that neoliberalism did not originate exclusively on the right. To suggest otherwise is to present old wine as recent vintage. bostonreview.net/articles/small…

Happy International Women's day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️

The notion that tax credits constitutes an expansion of the welfare state might just be the thing that pushes me to write that little book on the meaning of the welfare state that I have been contemplating for years...

Hard to think of a more urgent task for the left in the current moment than to counter the arms race and center on the green transition.