Super interesting colleagues and students in Prague

Steve Hanson, my co-author on Assault on the State, just did a wonderful podcast on the book. Have a listen for a taste of what's at stake: howmyviewgrew.com/episodes/steph…

Great read!

Really looking forward to my first visit to Edinburgh

This will be a remarkable book. Written by a very talented scholar.

Bp friends.

Hanson/Kopstein on Hailie Selassie: "Appointing incompetent ministers ensured that they would not outshine the Emperor and would be personally dependent, competing among themselves for the attentions of the exalted one." Sound familiar? x.com/JeffreyKopstei…

A pre-Trump read Steve Hanson and I wrote for today's New York Times. "Trump aims not to streamline modern state bureaucracies, but rather to replace them with a much older form of rule based on personal loyalty to the ruler." nytimes.com/2024/12/31/opi…

An insightful article by Anna Sauerbrey in Die Zeit. Well worth close read.

In today's Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch uses The Assault on the State to highlight a key source and vulnerability of Trump's power. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

What to understand about our patrimonial president. New rules of the game. My latest co-authored piece:persuasion.community/p/sins-of-the-…

New article in PLoS ONE. My first with a large team. "Hidden in plain sight: antisemitic content in QAnon subreddits" When is online content antisemitic? This paper maps empirically the connections between explicit antisemitic content and these other forms of content, showing the

It's true

Beautifully written and well researched. Lev Nachman understands when and why social movements become political parties better than anyone. Big lessons for Asia and beyond.

Fun to be with the old gang again

Thrilled to be part of this project.