Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

"Violence in the West Bank can no longer be treated as a fringe disturbance to be dismissed...It has become a systemic ideological movement, and the dominant frameworks for describing this violence, from both the right and the left, are making it harder to solve."

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Left behind" and an undemocratic mind? Happy to see that my article on the link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Translation: we don’t want compromise; we want to destroy the Ukrainian state and use it as a springboard to attack Europe.

U. of C. freezes Ph.D. admissions to most humanities programs

Great new work by @dieterstiers.bsky.social & Shane Singh on the effects of compulsory voting. Must read! 👇

The Communist Party of China by Ben Hillman and Fengyuan Ji An interdisciplinary collection exploring the ideology and mechanisms behind the Communist Party of China's grip on political power. 📚 https://cup.org/4chyuIt

I’m very happy to share that the first chapter of my book, Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right, is now free to read on Oxford Academic until 8 July 2026 ✨ academic.oup.com/book/62754/c...

The free weekend update is out. The big story of the week is that Ukraine reached out and touched Putin--twice. Once militarily with long-range strike and second diplomatically. It is a sign of initiative changing. Of course Putin still has Trump in his pocket. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Although they're ultra-nationalist, the European #FarRight has partners/sponsors abroad, especially in 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇸. @shekhovtsov.substack.com#FarRight who knows more about such things than most, outlines the anatomy of these connections.

Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Seems claims gaining union membership liberalizes attitudes don't clearly hold up in an exhaustive set of tests. As part of this, a reanalysis indicates some existing evidence is driven by arbitrary decisions in variable construction and case preservation. www.emerald.com/qjps/article...

My latest for @policymag.bsky.social “we should not be looking for a change of heart in the Kremlin, but for signs of a systemic failure [..] Until then, hopes for a “negotiated settlement” serve only to prolong the bloodshed. Russia will not take an off-ramp; it needs to be defeated.”

Convocatoria de plaza de Profesor/a Ayudante Doctor. Ciencia Política y de la Administración (Plaza 339.35). UNED Plazo de presentación de solicitudes: desde el 2 de junio hasta el 29 de junio de 2026, inclusive.

Article no. 6 from the YOUMEM project now out! In this one, led by Niklas, we look at the 'added value' of youth wings in terms of shaping the young members that parties say they want.

In a couple of weeks I will be glad to welcome 20 amazing scholars at UNED to debate on Mobilizations in the 21st Century Neoliberal Order in Latin America and the Middle East and North of Africa. Organized together with Rima Majed (AUB) and Amr Adly (AUC).

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was hit by a massive strike of missiles and drones early on Sunday

Nottingham Administration Proposes Massive Faculty Cuts

As we look at a rapid and extreme contraction of the university sector, lots of good advice and discussion in the quotes of - and replies to - this post. As the HE world we've known comes to an end, there will be many very painful choices ahead. So we should support each other and share wisdom. ☹️

Reading this as one of my many tasks today. Very downcast to see all those universities founded in the 1960s to foster the whole person, communities of hope and the conditions of freedom... ripped apart and trashed just a couple of generations later. For no good reason.

Just sent out this post. US losses across the board fighting Iran, but particularly involving aircraft, are revealing worrying signs that US military efficiency is in decline and not what it was. The loss rates are many times higher than Vietnam and Desert Storm. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Turkey revokes licence for Bilgi University seized by state in criminal probe

Convocatoria de una plaza Ayudante Doctor del Dpto. de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales en la UAM www.uam.es/uam/media/do...

Nobody seems to want to talk about how British voters mostly pay less tax than in comparable countries. The argument isn’t really about borrow or not, it’s about taxation and the collective choice to pretend the average voter can’t pay more

Yes but

This hatred risks driving reasonable people out of politics, leaving us with fanatics, charlatans & psychopaths, as I wrote here: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-burden...

Sobering stuff from David Blunkett in the @financialtimes.com

Open Letter to the University of Nottingham in Response to its Plans for Redundancies in the School of Physics and Astronomy

America needs leaders who will speak plainly and directly about what is happening in this country. Leaders who are as appalled as all good Americans are by the deliberate, coordinated effort to end Black political representation. This is an excellent example.

People need to understand that every time Pu talks about peace he means Ukrainian surrender. When he said last week the war was nearly over, he meant to express confidence in Russian victory. Whether he’s lying or he’s deluded doesn’t matter.

Hi folks: don't try this at home. Specifically to my fellow professors: don't try this in your classroom if you don't want to get pilloried by Trump supporters. Only Trump is allowed to shit on America like this.

Every time Republicans pretended to be outraged that Obama was on apology tours around the world, or that Biden was weakening American power & national security, was projection

First he abandoned Ukraine and now he is abandoning Taiwan. Sucks to be a democratic friend of the USA these days.

Also,The air war accelerated. The Russians continued their mass attacks on Ukrainian cities and in return Ukraine launched one of its longest range attacks so far. Interesting trajectory. Finally, Ukrainians are being open about their thinking on modern war. Pay attention.

My free weekend update is out. More and more Ukraine and European states are being drawn together, as the US is both unreliable and too supportive of Putin's dictatorship. The fate of this "beautiful friendship" will determine the fate of Europe's future security. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

That's probably the end of Fidesz. 37 years after the fall of communism and Hungary still doesn't have a party system

What Trump broke with the Iran war can't be fixed. He got the US into a bad strategic position he can't get out of. Many are deeply invested in not acknowledging that. Because it means they've been wrong. Who knows how long it'll take for reality to fully hit. But when it does, it'll be a doozy.

Shocking statistic ⬇️ The hallmark of a generation increasingly unable to achieve the milestones previous generations took for granted.. Its is an issue we discussed in our latest UK Poverty report, one which clearly intersects with low-incomes and lack of opportunity.

New European Political Science (EPS) articles can now be found on Cambridge Core. Stay up to date with the latest content from @epsjournal.bsky.social by following this link - https://cup.org/4os8qPS #OpenAccess @ecpr.bsky.social#OpenAccess

A three way fight between medievalist conservatives, bureaucratic enlightenment modernisers, and Romantic idealists results in a compromise no one quite wanted but also is drives a huge portion of innovation and technical advance in the modern world. Fascinating! asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...

Fascinating.

"Fascism cannot be appeased; this is a core assertion of resistance liberalism." Good overview here of the new anti-Trump counter-mobilization and the deeper forces driving it:

Great piece (and graphics) by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. PS This is exactly why @pauldwebb.bsky.social and I talked about 'the educated left-behind' when we wrote about the young people who'd followed Corbyn into the Labour Party - and who may well be following Zack Polanski into the Greens.

Why, if you believe, like I do, that grassroots party members are ultimately the lifeblood of liberal democracy, you have to admire them for making the effort, whichever part of the political spectrum they come from.

What is the Political Sociology of Crisis?: 30 Years of Sociological Data from Ukraine A Candid Discussion and Q&A with Dr. Tymofii Brik Internationally Leading Ukrainian Sociologist and Rector of the Kyiv School of Economics 13:00 -14:30 April 24th

Polish communism was also defeated, in the end, by an election. www.thefp.com/p/orbans-ous...

OfS wants HEIs 'to publish documents on their websites explaining their student protection arrangements, including student contracts, policies related to course changes, information on complaints, refunds and compensation, and information about agents that work on behalf of an institution.' 1/2

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.