New Research Article: Max Weber, demagogy and charismatic representation - Xavier Márquez, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

This paper is now officially out, open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000…

New paper! 'Max Weber, Demagogy, and Political Representation' , now accepted at the European Journal of Political Theory (on my birthday!) ssrn.com/abstract=46942…

Great paper, highly recommended if you're on the authoritarianism/tyranny beat!! 👇🏻

New paper! 'Ancient Tyranny and Modern Dictatorship', now forthcoming at The Review of Politics.

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Xavier Marquez Julian Waller 📖 James Kierstead Adam Gurri Oh wow. I was just writing a piece on despotism: open.substack.com/pub/digression…
Benjamin Constant, The Road to Bonapartism, some Cromwell and some Marx

A shorty.

The Argentine election, by (((Noel Maurer))) open.substack.com/pub/noelmaurer…

I have two codes for the azure-themed other site - DM if you want one!

Interesting piece on the illusion of explanatory depth and the development of science by Adam Mastroianni
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