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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 1d

Lazily reading Schmitt's Political Theology and deciding Love Island is the antichrist

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Say no to drugs, kids

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to be back at the University of Chicago for this already excellent conference

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 1d

Me trying to interpret the meaning of a status update in editorial manager

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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 2d

My colleague and friend Ed Hall is, by his own admission, not the best at the self-promotion that is part and parcel of modern academia. But I have just finished this and think it’s a really important book that political theorists of all stripes ought to read.

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Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century: Amazon.co.uk: Hall, Edward: 9780192870032: Books

Buy Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Hall, Edward (ISBN: 9780192870032) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders...

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 3d

In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 2d

Normal stuff...

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 3d

And that's a draft

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 4d

This one weird trick where if you say conservative things but keep denying you're a conservative they will give you a major news network to run

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

its sort of like how much of the current dem unpopularity is being driven by the base being pissed...the assumption is that will change as elections approach

Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

On polling - labour is bleeding from both wings, so probably at this point in electoral cycle would always be low. I think everyone understands polls will tighten as an election approaches

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

I think everyone has lots of worries, and there have been recently a string of good academic critiques about the danger of chasing anti-immigrant working class votes. But these tend to focus on aggregate numbers and not electoral geography.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

UK has historically higher turn-out, but also with FPTP we are talking about losing voters in very high margin seats. Again, I'm not saying the strategy is right or wrong, but you need to engage with it as an electoral strategy and not like self-loathing from party elites

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

You can argue its a bad strategy or the strategy will fail, but it's a strategy - no need to go to weird psychological explanations

Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

Another giant...I don't think anyone could so effortless move between theory, sociology, and political economy

Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 9d

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 9d

I'm seeing a lot of wonderment at Labour's focus on working-class voters - it's Blue Labour! It's emotions and identity! But am I wrong its just a cold electoral calculation? PMC vote concentrated in cities, no real reason to try to run up big margins, PMC will drift back with Farage threat

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Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social · 10d

Everybody wants growth, but how can we get it? Jimena Valdez makes the case for a growth strategy that embraces international students and immigration, now online for @renewaljournal.bsky.social

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 10d

New on Renewal Online: Jimena Valdez considers what Spain's socialist government can teach Keir Starmer about how to deliver economic growth & higher living standards

Lessons for economic growth from Pedro Sánchez’s Spain

In a recent issue of Renewal David Cesar Heymann wrote about one of the most successful social democratic governments in Europe: that of Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez (2...

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 10d

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 10d

Unitary executive theory, meet Marxist state theory, you two should talk

George Pearkes @peark.es · 10d

Oh hell yes

*SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO LET TRUMP IMMEDIATELY OUST FED'S COOK

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 11d

As every would be authoritarian knows, the first step is to get the military leadership on board by berating them for being overweight

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 11d

Unironically using the most accelerationist, futuristic tech like AI to generate feelings of nostalgia, unity, and belonging - essential reactionary modernism

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12d

An entire generation of dumbs are getting themselves worked up into a fascist frenzy over inaccurate nostalgia videos they know are complete false and it is terrifying hot profoundly strong these feelings are for them despite being very aware it's fake and bullshit.

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Yohei Yoshi @yoandhey.bsky.social · 12d

Today is the deadline for submission!

📢Call for Abstracts:

PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King’s College London

📅 Date: 26th Nov 2025
✍️ CfA: 400 words (by 29th Sep)
➡️ Details & Application Form:
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KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025

We are pleased to announce the PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference, taking place on November 26th, 2025, at the Department of Political Economy (DPE), King’s College London (KCL). The conf...

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 12d

I also think other Klein has a point about a segment of the left abandoning the work of talking to ordinary people. He also grants this may require economic populism. But it's about energy and mobilization and not persuasion.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 12d

I also have a review of Abundance. Its an important argument but shares the issue of a relatively narrow conception of politics. renewal.org.uk/blog/can-abu...

Can abundance save the left?

Everyone facing a problem hopes that their problem will go away. Confronting constant tough choices—caused by a faltering healthcare system, an aging population dependent on state pensions, councils t...

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 13d

The Klein Coates discussion is very good and very revealing - pundit class is structurally dependent on the possibility of a reasonable politics of persuasion, otherwise what is the point of punditry? And Coates just rejects that.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 13d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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