New Job Posting: Assistant Professor in Political Theory (University of Amsterdam) The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Political Theory. Deadline: May 26, 2025 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/a…

Ange always wins things in his second seasons

JD Vance We’ve let terrorist sympathizers march through our cities unchecked for months, now Israeli diplomats are being executed in DC. This didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s what happens when you normalize hate and call it activism

The *ONLY* group in the US that they think it's ok to suffer for the real of perceived sins of foreign actors is Jews. Which is textbook antisemitism. It's such obvious antisemitism that they have to be aware of it. And they do it anyway. /end

Weekend's reading: Intent to Destroy. Finkel shows how interaction between identity and security motivated Russia's policies towards Ukraine from Romanov's to Putin. A must-read masterpiece.

Interesting new article by Turchenko, Zavadskaya, and Golosov on the microfoundations of Smart Voting (as well as the limitations of this strategy in wartime Russia) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

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Interesting article in 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 Wilson, Trevor. 2025. "Normative anti-normativity: when Dugin reads queer theory." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Brilliant essay from Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on the disciplinary power of the therapeutic idiom. The panopticon of our times critiqueanddigest.substack.com/p/the-smile-th…

Yeah, Russia's not even pretending to try meduza.io/feature/2025/0…

The Department of Political Science at Indiana University-Bloomington invites applications for a full-time Tenure/Tenure-track Open Rank position in the field of American Politics, beginning August of 2025. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25305

Just Published in the June issue: The Foundations of Russian Statehood: The Pentabasis, National History, and Civic Values in Wartime Russia by Dima Kortukov Dima Kortukov and Jullian Waller Julian Waller 📖 Free to access for one week: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2…

ideal scenario, musk marches on DC with an army of AI drones, only to stop short and be killed in a suspicious space launch several months later

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Finally someone is doing something about those damn registration fees! meduza.io/en/news/2025/0…

Weekend's reading: Yardena Schwartz "Ghosts of a Holy War". Masterfully written account of the 1929 Hebron massacre and its enduring legacy

More from "Ghosts of a Holy War" on Haj Amin's Nazi ties (p. 197)

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Seconds after submitting an article to a journal, I discovered the most embarrassingly stereotypical typo: "Russian historical tradition of 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘴"🙀🤪