Last night Viktor Orbán conceded Hungary's election after 16 years in power. The man who said "the homeland cannot be in opposition" called his opponent to congratulate him. I didn't see that coming. eitantzelgov.substack.com/p/populism-e...

I spoke about the difference between a democratic government and the current Israeli regime at a demonstration last week www.facebook.com/tzelgov/vide...

The Israeli internal crisis isn't about restoring democracy, nor is it a pendulum movement. It's a hollowing out of democratic institutions, opposition, and all means of oversight and accountability. It is, as Navot and Goldshmidt show, an elite-driven project to dismantle Israel's flawed democracy.

Thinking of calling my forthcoming book "Laclau meets convolutional neural networks" to boost sales

In a thought-provoking new paper 👇, Doron Navot and Yair Goldshmidt show that Israel's crisis is a culmination of a project that challenges the authority of unelected state institutions, thereby dismantling and deconstructing the state. Relevant far beyond Israel. shorturl.at/5x58i.