A very sensitive reading of "The Assault on the State."

We feel it in our bones... "with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading ultimately to the demise of democracy itself."

Cornell University Press will soon release a well-priced paperback version of "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust," a book I wrote with Jason Wittenberg. Unfortunately, it still speaks to important questions of our day. (link in first comment)

Looking forward to this.

Multi-university study including @ucirvine.bsky.social professor @jeffkopstein.bsky.social maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma | Findings in @plosone.org highlight hidden ways hate speech spreads @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

@www.bsky.social "Does Military Service Make Individuals Susceptible to Political Violence? Attitudinal and Behavioral Evidence" osf.io/preprints/so...

The Assault on the State

New article at PLOS (my first with a large team): dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

An interview I did with der Spiegel on Trump's and others' #AssaultOnTheState www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...

#Trump is attacking the “Deep State” to make the US his own – turn it into a family business, historian @jeffkopstein.bsky.social argues. Society will pay a high price. Highly recommended #interview by @bredow.bsky.social at @spiegel.de. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...

Well explained by @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and Steve Hanson in their important new book on patrimonialism www.amazon.com/Assault-Stat...

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

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

It's almost as if Trump read Weber....

Looking forward to taking part in this lecture series.

Thanks @mollyjongfast.bsky.social for drawing attention to our deep concerns

This is nightmare fuel www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

A great op ed drawing on their new book The Assault on the State www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

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." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

We are delighted to welcome Jeffrey Kopstein for a presentation based on his recent book, ‘The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future' Register and info: edin.ac/48Ut18k 3 Dec 3:30pm - 5pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, Edinburgh

Don’t forget to join us on Monday for this book discussion w Jeffrey Kopstein at CEU Budapest ⏰ Nov 25, 5pm 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/beJczjF4 Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/geJczb1c

What a wonderful group. So grateful for the quiet time at WZB and the pleasant lunches. Hope to see of you again soon

Never been there before. Very excited

Edinburgh folks, join us for an event on this important and timely book by @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and Stephen Hanson. Details & registration here 👇

5. This is part of a global trend that Stephen Hanson and I dissect in our new book, The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Thread. I've spent the last few years immersed in Bodin's theory of the sovereign state. I'll admit that the relentless attacks/demonization of it (both from 'decisionist' right thinkers or 'democratic' and anarcho-socialist thinkers) do often strike me as misguided for the reasons outlined below.

1. What is Donald Trump doing to our state? I explain this in my new book (co-authored with Stephen Hanson). It's not what you think. A thread:

1. What is Donald Trump doing to our state? I explain this in my new book (co-authored with Stephen Hanson). It's not what you think. A thread:

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/ste...

My academic home for the next couple of months. WZB

Publication day!

Now available on audible (read by the same person who narrated Piketty's Capital) Listen to The Assault on the State by Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein on Audible. www.audible.com/pd/B0DCCZ5MK...

First review of Hanson and Kopstein's The Assault on the State has appeared. In the Spectator: www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

Hot off the press. We wrote it out of grave concern

Five years ago when I wrote an article on campus antisemitism with Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg, the topic seemed obscure. No longer. Here are the results of a survey we did for the ADL of four Univ of California Campuses. www.adl.org/resources/re...

Not sure I know the best review, but I wrote up something that tried to put together his entire project, where his (then) two books were given the biggest weight www.liberalcurrents.com/jacob-levys-...

Very excited for everyone to read:

A mini memoir of sorts on Holocaust remembrance day www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

Constellations special section on 100th year of the Institute for Social Research. With Honneth, Gordon, Cooke, Lafont, Forst, Ferrara, Michelman, Scheuerman, Buchstein.

The book I edited with @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and the late Susan Welch on the new social science of the Holocaust has been out for a few months, but it's still a 2023 book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Some of my campus surveys on antisemitism discussed in this LA TIMES article. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

A genuine force and someone I frequent encountered him padding around Hebrew University. For whatever reason, Shlomo Avinieri was always kind to me and always had an interesting take on virtually any subject. May his memory be a blessing. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Reposting this piece from 2020 on univ student attitudes towards Jews and Israel. There is overlap in antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes. But little evidence of campus effects. Stay tuned for an update across multiple UC campuses link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coming 2024

New challenge news.uci.edu/2023/09/27/b...

Great group to be included in. To paraphrase George Costanza, I've always wanted to pretend to be a political theorist onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...