"Nowhere is this selective application of values more glaring than in the EU’s response to Gaza."

🚨 New research! 🚨 Check out this recent article by @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug on place-based resentment and populist voting in the Netherlands. Free to read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Druhá série podcastu Extrém začíná. Dnes mluvíme o antisemitismu. O středověkém antijudiasmu a kořenech konspiračních teorí, sociálním antisemitismu 19. století, rasových teoriích a holocasutu, vzniku státu Izrael a také o antisionismu a krajní pravici i levici. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/...

80 years after Liberation Day, far-right parties are the strongest parties in the polls in the UK, France, and Germany. For every politician the most pressing question should be how to save liberal democracy. Yet, small minded partisan tactics prevail. The far right gets normalized and empowered.

While the radical right populist governing parties of Hungary and Poland abused culture as a vehicle for transmitting their nationalist narratives, their technocratic Czech and Slovak counterparts took a more pragmatic approach to cultural policy. doi.org/10.1080/1028...

🆕📝🚨 Glad to see this one out in International Journal of Cultural Policy. With data from @authlibeu.bsky.social, we review cultural policies of 🇭🇺Orbán, 🇵🇱Kaczyński, 🇨🇿Babiš, and 🇸🇰Fico. A short thread👇 1/4 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @schaferd.bsky.social @jsuchanek.bsky.social

It's impossible to put into words how vile this is. Murdering paramedics in cold blood. And then the lies. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Dare to dream and imagine that instead of cars we would protect people in need, like abused women or homeless people.. crazy right?

Just like centrist parties in Western Europe, the Democratic Party is more concerned about the voters of the far right than with its own voters.

And so it’s starting…

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Poměrně otevřený rozhovor o poměrech v KSČM, respektive Stačilo! Tento pohled v zásadě odpovídá mému názoru, že se současná KSČM ve skutečnosti posouvá na kulturní/politické ose doprava (a neplatí tak teorie podkovy). denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23717...

The axis of evil is not what it used to be

A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse. A simple thread. 🧵👇

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

This would be an unlawful seizure of territory in violation of the United Nations Charter, and the forcible transfer of the population of Gaza would constitute crimes against humanity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German CDU, just claimed in parliament that gang rapes are committed on a daily basis by asylum seekers in Germany. It is pure far right propaganda. The mainstreaming of the far right is happening on steroids in Germany right now.

A crazy story that should be a warning to many colleagues (and others) who want to travel to the U.S. (or Germany). There is a (secret) blacklist -- most likely related to critique of Israel (and its war crimes in Gaza).

In my long-term research on the language of illiberalism, "Maidan" (now used by the Slovak PM), when applied to events outside Ukraine, was one of the surest indicators of active Russian influence. www.bbc.com/news/article...

1/4🧵 Electoral maps like these are quite common in the Czech context – both outer and inner peripheries were notably visible in the latest presidential elections. But what factors led to the populist candidate Andrej Babiš's defeat, and what role does geography play?

"It’s far more straightforward to blame an abstract “wokeness” than to reckon with the fact that Harris ran a broadly right-of-centre campaign and still lost. It also conjures up a convenient voter, one who is more offended by language than by the promise of mass deportations."

As we all seem to be moving here, let me post the first solo article by my PhD student Ales Michal, published today in the Parliamentary Affairs: academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

The most openly extreme right campaign of my lifetime is the most popular Republican presidential campaign of this century.