My latest on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

One thing is to erase your debt through currency devaluation and other very different to grow (GDP). Even IF exports grow you’re receiving less, so in reality the net grow is less than when the currency was strong.

Sell America Trade Again

Hey academia where are thou? Business as usual. Nothing happens!

wOrLD order

The quality of your methods is meaningless if the quality of your theory is lacking. Put another way - if your basic assumptions are wack your methodological rigour is wasted effort. More in Ch8 here: www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....

« La fabrique du sale boulot. Pourquoi les médecins n’aiment pas pratiquer les avortements », Raphael Perrin (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) @rfs-revue.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

“Unequal academic cultures reify Global North scholarship, set punishing demands to publish in western journals, and undervalue dissident voices of minority scholars.” Editor Sweta Rajan-Rankin reflects on The Sociological Review journal’s internationalisation and EDI agendas. buff.ly/V2Gl4UQ

And academia? Business as usual… (nothing is happening…)

✍️ "Novelty has become elastic — sometimes even hollow — and originality increasingly defined by aesthetics rather than ideas." #AcWri #STS

How about a new one but only with “global south” included?

🇪🇺 is the “new” backyard of 🇺🇸

Valentine Prouvez - Canguilhem lecteur de Freud D’une philosophie de l’erreur, au fondement d’une théorie des valeurs et des normes À paraître en février aux PUM

Devaluation of dollar isn’t a politically driven consequence, it’s a politically design strategy

ICE is running a physical war powered by data. Any info the US govt has is fair game, now including Medicaid. freedom.press/the-classifi...

Another day, another tragedy

Do we need a sociology of consumerism? Seriously (!)

Nationalism and fascism goes hand in hand.

🇺🇸 is broken, and not only economically. However, capitalism is well and safe, please continue purchasing (!)

Full list:

Rogue State: A) External Hegemonic worldview undermining global peace B) internal totalitarian government undermining rule of law

Capitalism as a "way of life." The world continues to be consumed even as it burns.

@katharinapistor.bsky.social could disagree with this 👇🏻

Latin America was, IS, and will be the backyard of 🇺🇸

Only countries at the brink of collapse would execute their act of own annihilation. History will repeat again for those who walk the totalitarian path.

I will strongly advice to remove “international law” from the list of topics/subjects in the schools of law (!)

Everybody remember how the 1933 Germany’s experiment end, right? Apparently, not everyone!

“Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina”. Eduardo Galeano

The long twentieth century

The obstruction of justice is a key US export under Trump. He has attempted to interfere in the criminal trial of Jair Bolsonaro, tried to get charges dropped against Benjamin Netanyahu and is tightening the screws on the International Criminal Court. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

How Temporary Are Temporary Student Visas? @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social, J. Van Hook, & H. Persaud use #longitudinaldata to study the factors influencing the potential transition to #permanentresidence for #internationalstudents Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

International Law is the 2025’s biggest joke

💡 Nouvelle parution : « Hokusai (1760-1849) : Chefs-d’œuvres du musée Hokusai-kan d’Obuse », avec la contribution de Guillaume Carré 🇯🇵 🔗 carnetsjapon.hypotheses.org/41917

In the long rung, the main argument of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “terminator” is scary valid: synopticon vs panopticon.

A manuscript that examines the interrelations of functional differentiation and the genesis of democracy, populism and authoritarianism. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

📻19h Les conditions de travail sont-elles au cœur de la frustration sociale ? Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra @bpalier.bsky.social, dir. de recherche du CNRS au @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, auteur de “Travailler mieux” avec Christine Erhel @editions-puf.bsky.social

There’s only 1 winner in “bubble” economics: Banks. They’re going to cash at the end.

Consulta la Revista Mexicana de Sociología Vol. 88 Núm. 1 (2026) revistamexicanadesociologia.unam.mx/index.php/rm...

Go, @alexhanna.bsky.social: www.instagram.com/reel/DSWA7Df...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Section for Institutional and Legal history [59° Congres de la Fédération des Cercles d'archéologie et d'histoire de Belgique] (Brussels: Palace of the Academies, 20-23 AUG 2026); DEADLINE 6 APR 2026 📣 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...

Friendship is a vice, like any other…

How significant statistically is it that two persons scape (!) two different violent acts involving guns in the course of their life before turn 25 years old?

I’m glad to see the GI Rights hotline and Quaker House getting some news coverage. Folks doing this work are so important, and the fact that these services have hung on since the Vietnam War is pretty amazing. 🗃️ #milhist www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...

LatinAmerica the backyard of 🇺🇸

Tow foundational illusions of modern western philosophy: A) Consciousness and B) Freedom You can fool everyone to thing whatever you want if you mix them in any way you want. *Of course there are exceptions*

This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

A rejuvenation & interrogation of the legal philosophy of Adolf Reinach, analyzed alongside contemporary private law theory Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law ed. Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky https://cup.org/4me5DYZ

Disability, Human Rights, and Contract Law by Eliza Varney Shows how contract law interacts with human rights, and how it should be reformed based on economic and social values. #LawSky #HumanRights 💙📚 https://cup.org/4oiJFoS