"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Looking forward to discussing the racket model of Critical Theory and its relevance for understanding the crisis of authoritarianism this Friday at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, as part of our JUSTLA project.

“The dirty secret of American politics is how little the big picture really changes. For almost a century, Democrats have been at their strongest … when they united working people around a populist message powerful enough to overcome their cultural differences.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

In Bogota for the first time

🌍 JUSTLA Initial Conference 🌍

Justice in the XXI Century: New Challenges, New Directions of Inquiry
📍 University of Catania, Italy
📅 Feb 25–27, 2026

🎤 Distinguished keynote speakers from leading International Universities

🔗 justla.eu

#JUSTLA #EU #MSCA #JusticeXXI #PoliticalTheory

Frankfurt/Darmstadt aufgepasst. Für das interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg »Ästhetik der Demokratie« unter Leitung von Johannes Völz und Sophie Loidolt gibt es 12 (!) Promotionsstellen befristet auf 4 Jahre. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 14. November 2025. Programmstart ist der 1. April 2026.

As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

Special issue of Public Reason which it is shamelessly immodest of me to post:
publicreason.ro/cuprins/29

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Working in the area of critical sociology? Consider submitting to our workshop!

Might interest @enzoreds.bsky.social, @uguraytac.bsky.social,
@mattsleat.bsky.social, @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, @jleadermaynard.bsky.social,
@samuel-bagg.bsky.social, @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social, @aejm.bsky.social,
@cordschmelzle.bsky.social, @tbheinze.bsky.social,
@deefthymiou.bsky.social

Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075

#CfP bis 30. Juni 2025 für die Sektionstagung im Frühjahr '26 zu "Bürgerschaft: Aktuelle Entwicklungspfade und konzeptionelle Neubestimmungen".

Das Orgateam besteht aus Oliver Eberl & Julian Nicolai Hofmann (@unimarburg.bsky.social), Eva-Maria Schäfferle & Sandra Seubert (@goetheuni.bsky.social).👇

›daß das Verschiedene nebeneinander besteht, ohne sich gegenseitig zu vernichten, daß ein Verschiedenes dem anderen Raum läßt, und daß … das Verschiedene sich liebt, das wäre eigentlich der Traum überhaupt einer versöhnten Welt.‹ Adorno in seinen Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Dialektik

DER HÄNDLER: Der Winter kommt, die Leute brauchen Kleider
Da muß man Baumwolle kaufen
Und die Baumwolle nicht hergeben
Wenn die Kälte kommt, werden die Kleider teurer.
…
Weiß ich, was ein Mensch ist?
Weiß ich, wer das weiß!
Ich weiß nicht, was ein Mensch ist
Ich kenne nur seinen Preis.

“There is not one single entity holding Musk accountable. It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk4.DtWY.ce0OEzzFS83t&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Today, more than 10,000 people took to the streets in Neu-Isenburg to raise their voice against fascism

Excellent postdoc fellowships

I’ve also been starting to read a bit of Nkrumah, who would, I suppose, agree with you. In ‘The Spectre of Black Power’, he states that only scientific socialism is the ‘true socialism’ since it’s principles are ‘universal and abiding’

The African socialist Nyerere’s on a major premise of historical materialism: ‘The European socialist cannot think of his socialism without its father—capitalism! … I find this contradiction quite intolerable. It gives capitalism a philosophical status which capitalism neither claims nor deserves.’

Yesterday, I defended my doctoral thesis ‘The Tyranny of the Real.’ I’ve rarely been so tired and so grateful: to my family and friends, my two brillant supervisors, Rainer Forst and Dave Estlund, and everybody at @normativeorders.bsky.social. This would’ve never been possible
without them. 🎉

„Trust and Conflict: Taking stock and looking ahead“ – Final Annual Conference of the Research Initiative „ConTrust – Trust in Conflict“

📆23. und 24. Januar 2025
📍NO-Gebäude / Online (Zoom)

Zum Programm: contrust.uni-frankfurt.de/event/trust-...