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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 4d

The grant money?

Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Sep 1

A very sensitive reading of "The Assault on the State."

pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · Sep 1

Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social beobachten weltweit eine Rückkehr vormoderner Herrschaftsformen. Unser Rezensent @lennardgott.bsky.social findet in ihrem Buch das politikwissenschaftliche Vokabular, um die spezifische Staatsfeindlichkeit von Trump & Co. besser zu verstehen. #polisky

Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

www.pw-portal.de

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Aug 28

We feel it in our bones... "with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading ultimately to the demise of democracy itself."

Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Aug 27

But there's the issue of students with accommodations.

Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Aug 27

Theres no bowing. There's also no more papers. Just in class assignments. Once you've solved the problem of me grading dozens of chatgpt papers (which i refuse to do), let me know. Then we can go back to education. Until then its blue books and essay. I also want to do communist style oral exams!

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Aug 2

Can't one of the methods convert? for the sake of the parents.

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Aug 2

You and your bourgeois arithmetic. Wrecker

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Jul 1

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Intimate Violence by Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Winner of the Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesWhy do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cornell University Press will soon release a well-priced paperback version of "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust," a book I wrote with Jason Wittenberg. Unfortunately, it still speaks to important questions of our day. (link in first comment)

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · May 13

My sense is it's an over used word, bordering on an empty signifier at this point.

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Apr 3

Looking forward to this.

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · Apr 3

Attacks on the modern state are intensifying globally. Join Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social to discuss their book on how to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. @dziblatt.bsky.social

🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Mar 26

Multi-university study including @ucirvine.bsky.social professor @jeffkopstein.bsky.social maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma | Findings in @plosone.org highlight hidden ways hate speech spreads

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Multi-university study maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma

www.socsci.uci.edu

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Mar 26

@www.bsky.social "Does Military Service Make Individuals Susceptible to Political Violence? Attitudinal and Behavioral Evidence" osf.io/preprints/so...

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Mar 23

The Assault on the State

Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · Mar 23

After mass firings, the IRS will be forced to close audits of wealthy taxpayers.

Audits of rich individuals and corporations will soon be closed — without action — due to a lack of personnel to complete them.

Millions upon millions in revenue will be lost.

“All of a sudden, these cases…

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Mar 20

New article at PLOS (my first with a large team): dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Hidden in plain sight: antisemitic content in QAnon subreddits

When is online content antisemitic? This matter is highly contested, except in the case of explicit language. Yet implicit antisemitic content and conspiracy narratives about Jews have been on the ris...

dx.plos.org

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Mar 13

Sie haben Recht, dass es sich um mehr als nur die Finanzkrise von 2008 handelt. Wir gehen im Buch ausführlicher auf die Angelegenheit ein.

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Mar 13

An interview I did with der Spiegel on Trump's and others' #AssaultOnTheState
www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...

(S+) US-Politologe über die Trump-Regierung: »Wir sind wie Schlafwandler auf den Abgrund zugetaumelt«

Verwandelt Donald Trump die USA in eine Autokratie? Es ist noch schlimmer, sagt der US-Politologe Jeffrey Kopstein. Trump legt die Axt an den modernen Staat. Und damit an das Leben in Sicherheit, Gesu...

www.spiegel.de

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · Mar 10

#Trump is attacking the “Deep State” to make the US his own – turn it into a family business, historian @jeffkopstein.bsky.social argues.

Society will pay a high price.

Highly recommended #interview by @bredow.bsky.social at @spiegel.de.

www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...

(S+) US-Politologe über die Trump-Regierung: »Wir sind wie Schlafwandler auf den Abgrund zugetaumelt«

Verwandelt Donald Trump die USA in eine Autokratie? Es ist noch schlimmer, sagt der US-Politologe Jeffrey Kopstein. Trump legt die Axt an den modernen Staat. Und damit an das Leben in Sicherheit, Gesu...

www.spiegel.de

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · Mar 9

Well explained by @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and Steve Hanson in their important new book on patrimonialism www.amazon.com/Assault-Stat...

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Mar 5

What to understand about our patrimonial president. New rules of the game.My latest co-authored piece. www.persuasion.community/p/sins-of-th...

Sins of the Father

The United States is joining the ranks of patrimonial states. It’s nothing short of a revolution.

www.persuasion.community

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Feb 28

We call it harvesting in www.amazon.com/Assault-Stat...

The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

Amazon.com: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Audible Audio Edition): Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, L.J. Ganser, Tantor Audio: Audible Books & Originals

www.amazon.com

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · Feb 24

In today's Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch uses The Assault on the State to highlight a key source and vulnerability of Trump's power.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...