Reading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!

Reading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social explaining how current US(Russia) 'peace talks' lead to the peace of the graveyard for Ukraine and Ukrainians.

Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.

Excellent, can’t wait to watch/listen. Obviously I recommend it to you all.

A wide-ranging video podcast in which I answer questions about why & how we should argue, the importance of thinking clearly & academic freedom, what to think about historic, structural and global justice, who broke international order & how did we get here. Happy 10th Anniversary to the Lin Centre!

See you tonight!

If you missed last week’s "Climate at a Crossroads," the recordings are now up! Hosted by The Walrus, the Max Bell School and the Centre for MTD, expert panels examined how climate disinformation crosses borders and shapes global action. Watch the recordings below.

Hi anglo friends! Living with men came out in the UK this weekend! I went to talk about it on BBC Woman’s Hour (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...) and on ABC Late night if you want to listen, otherwise you can read this wonderful interview ⬇️ I hope it’ll make you want to read the book!

Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social

Hello APSA folks, please come and join me Catherine Lu, Arturo Change, Matt Longo, and Niklas Plaetzer for an author-meets-critics roundtable on my new book, Contested Territory (OUP 2025) on Thursday morning at 10am! Thu Sept 11 10am Vancouver Convention Centre, East Ballroom C

This enthralling examination of a tragic personal/political story reimagines how people respond to politically tumultuous times, uncertainty & injustice. A bold, riveting, humbling reflection on humanity & human dignity. Congratulations, @leaypi.bsky.social! www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/752510...

'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.

A very important message that everyone who assumes Ru victory needs to hear. But unfortunately Ru’s deluded fans and paid stooges in the West are so disconnected from reality they repeat that Ru has won already or will win tomorrow every day for 3.5yrs now.

Check out this conversation I had about Trump, Europe, and the Russo-Ukrainian war for Pacifica Network's Ukraine 4 2 4 series: soundcloud.com/pacificanetw...

This Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy. It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice. Read the latest from @brownphdgirl.bsky.social & @christines.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/junetee...

Tonight it is finally time for Tommie Shelby's first Benjamin Lecture! He will begin with the topic of "Race and Class in the Political Ethics of the Oppressed". We are looking forward to seeing many of you at Haus der Kulturen der Welt at 6pm! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...

JUST IN: Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Tomorrow

Co-lauréats 2025 du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP: Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Dates à venir

GRIPP Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award 2025 co-winners: Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Dates TBA

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Sadly, this warning is even more true today. Courage to my American friends.

Congratulations, @jakobhuber.bsky.social ! Looking forward !

Make no mistake about what the unfolding political struggle in California is about. Are Americans free from tyranny and enslavement? 'This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.' Euripides, Hecuba. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

First Canada, then, maybe California? With the militarization of US federal-state relations, we can see now how presumptuous it was for Tyrant Trump to mock Canada becoming the 51st state, as if he could be certain that the union of 50 states would continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Make no mistake about what the unfolding political struggle in California is about. Are Americans free from tyranny and enslavement? 'This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.' Euripides, Hecuba. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

First Canada, then, maybe California? With the militarization of US federal-state relations, we can see now how presumptuous it was for Tyrant Trump to mock Canada becoming the 51st state, as if he could be certain that the union of 50 states would continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody. His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice." Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797

Thank you so much, @ycpt.bsky.social , for the constructive questions and great discussion, and the opportunity to share my work with you!

Now that the Trump-Pu call has ended with a nothingburger, Europe needs to make good on the threats it issued 10 days ago. Arm Ukraine better, strangle the Ru economy, confiscate the frozen assets.

Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism " Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists! politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

We’re looking forward to Catherine Lu’s talk tomorrow on “Seeing structural injustice: A tragic view” at our political theory workshop tomorrow! @catherinelu.bsky.social

The history of democratic backsliding offers limited but nonetheless real hope that official corruption can catalyze pro-democracy reforms. But for that to happen, anti-corruption & rule of law measures have to be championed by political elites, demanded by the public, & seen through to enforcement.

It's Trump First, America Last. Analysis by my dear colleague, @jacobtlevy.bsky.social . wapo.st/3YFsNyd

Rümeysa Öztürk was ordered released by a federal judge in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

Yeeeeee these advance copies just arrived! So great to have worked @mireillepaquet.bsky.social and @tungohan.bsky.social on this volume challenging the North/South divide in migration research, and to have been expertly supported by @eandreweditor.bsky.social at MQUP!

Honour to Graham Parsons, (former) professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, who truthfully explains the costs of West Point's capitulation to the Trump administration. To succeed in a regime, one must become like the regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

This new article by @elifkalay.bsky.social on international recognition in the context of the politics of UNESCO world heritage looks fascinating 👇 #HistIR

“Who negotiates #Arctic governance?” - a pressing question not just in times of the #Greenland “maga-saga” @charlygehrke.bsky.social and I discuss this with reference to the concept of “boundary” in a Special Issue edited by @mattkranke.bsky.social and Maren Hofius 👇

Trump says the United States is going to be 'friends' with Canada. I will share my thoughts at the JFK Institute for North American studies in Berlin, May 28: "Can the U.S. and Canada Ever Be Friends? Inequality, Solidarity, and Political Friendship", www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/poli...

IO has just released a call for short essays on the future of IR, given all that is going on. Deadline June 15 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?

Just to be 💯 clear: Ru’s repeated demand for Ukrainian demilitarization is a demand for capitulation not a condition for peace.

I wouldn't have thought that I was ever again in my life going to genuinely care about 60 Minutes, but here we are.