Philippe Buc
philippebuc.bsky.social
Philippe Buc
@philippebuc.bsky.social
Professor at Leiden University, researches religion(s) and violence. Franco-American. Loves the sea and the cold North.

https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/PhilippeBuc

Ce furent deux vaisseaux venus d'autres rivages,
L'un à l'autre étrangers ...
Reposted by Philippe Buc
Heel veel aandacht in de pers voor de zeer geslaagde aftrap van de estafettestaking in Leiden gisteren. Vandaag staken de universiteit en hogeschool in Utrecht!
1/
Met estafettestaking hopen universiteiten en hogescholen bezuinigingen tegen te houden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Met estafettestaking hopen universiteiten en hogescholen bezuinigingen tegen te houden
Bezuinigingen onderwijs: De Universiteit Leiden en de Hogeschool Leiden trapten gezamenlijk een landelijke estafettestaking af tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Docenten staakten en gaven...
www.nrc.nl
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Reuters, Chris Kirkham, today:
1/ (Reuters) - Tesla's stock has dropped by nearly half in three months. Even so, investors are still debating whether Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker remains overpriced.
March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
From Stéphane Audrand on X, @AudrandS
About the wretched Lindsey Graham.
The US is fast losing its historical allies.
March 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The fantasy of British defence
unherd.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Check out my short article: States and merchants: a commentary on the current geopolitical crisis between Europe and the US www.linkedin.com/pulse/states... via @LinkedIn
States and merchants: a commentary on the current geopolitical crisis between Europe and the US
J.D.
www.linkedin.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Moderate US expert hoping for some middle road between Europe and the US and downplaying European nations' abilities vis-à-vis Putin's Russia. An Atlantist can only write so: www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
The US and Europe are at a crossroads. A new world order is emerging | Christopher S Chivvis
We’ve seen the opening salvo in a US effort to transform the transatlantic relationship. The future of democracy is in play
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
May Pastor White, whose lilly-whiteness and purity is common knowledge, exorcize Tucker Carlson who was sexually assaulted (he says) by a demon!
x.com/Paula_White/...
x.com
x.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
May Pastor White, just appointed by our sTrump, exorcize pour Tucker Carlson, who was abused (we hope, not sexually, disgraceful for a male) by a demon! #PaulaWhite #TuckerCarlson
February 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
From pimp to prostitute... The career of "dumb fuck" #Zuckerberg
January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
X advertising seems to be rooting for repatriation of South Africans from the US, back to freedom.
January 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Donald Trump ridicules Denmark and insists US will take Greenland www.ft.com/content/a935... via @ft If Trump so threatens DK, we can retaliate by deporting US students present in the EU back to Texas. They will animate US campuses.
Donald Trump ridicules Denmark and insists US will take Greenland
‘They put two extra dog sleds there . . . they thought that was protection,’ says US president
www.ft.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Not from there but travelled there... This has to be.
Poland are the best bros for the Baltics.

We must build nukes. And increase cooperation. Make sure Finnbros join too. When Belarus and Ukraine get better, them too.

Make Commonwealth Great Again!

Then drinks & sauna.

If You're from any of the mentioned places, repost or bolshevik confirmed.
❗️Polish Prime Minister Tusk: "If Viktor Orban really blocks European sanctions at a crucial moment for the war, it will be absolutely clear that in this great game for the security and future of Europe, he is playing on Putin's team, not in ours. With all the consequences of this fact."
January 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A colleague posted on Twitter the link to thepointmag.com/politics/las... which I found interesting given that it refracts well the profile of my best conservative students at Stanford.
Last Boys at the Beginning of History | The Point Magazine
I expected to find something of a political sideshow at NatCon; instead, I found a movement, perhaps the only one I’d encountered during my time in D.C.
thepointmag.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Philippe Buc
Good news of the day : this is the #11 🇫🇮 Ambulance for Ukraine. Thank you all supporters, donors and
@toonietuesday.bsky.social we did it! 🤜🤛
🇮🇹 Insieme lo abbiamo conseguito : 11.ma ambulanza per l'Ucraina 🙏🫂🫶🇺🇦🚑💨
🚑 #11

Here it is! Number 11!

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, 2014, 330 000 km

Thank you all supporters, donors and @toonietuesday.bsky.social

Together we did it again 🤜🤛
January 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
www.linkedin.com/posts/davidb... Starting from Habermas and the idea of a public sphere not controlled by the prince, the thesis that controlled social networks take us back to something like the pre-Enlightenment configuration.
David Boogerd on LinkedIn: #ongelooflijkepodcast #ongelooflijke #podcast #bigtech #musk #nporadio1… | 118 comments
Deze alarmerende geschiedenisles over Musk was een eye-opener voor mij. Big tech-giganten als Musk en Zuckerberg werpen zich op als verdedigers van de… | 118 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For those who do not know, Annales is systematically also in English
Le dernier numéro des #Annales est désormais publié sur Cambridge Core (@cambridgeup.bsky.social). À lire, l’intelligence des gestes techniques au XVIIIe s., l'histoire et l'anthropologie des populations amérindiennes, les Juifs, l’antisémitisme et le capitalisme
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Dernier numéro | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales
www.cambridge.org
January 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
www.latribune.fr/entreprises-... Erdogan wants advanced weapons of the kind France sold the Greeks... Not good for the relationship between the UK, Greece, and France. Wily Sultan Erdogan!
Missile Meteor : Erdogan sème la zizanie entre Londres, Paris et Athènes
La possible vente de 40 Eurofighter armés de missile Meteor à la Turquie met à l'épreuve les relations entre la Grande-Bretagne, la France et la Grèce. Paris a la possibilité de s'opposer à la vente d...
www.latribune.fr
January 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
For those interested in the Paris academic scene and its "faides", a bit from Le Figaro about Patrick Boucheron
These Franco-French feuds should be compared to those immortalized by Anthropologists ;-) .

Some text in translation:
“He plays the strong man”: Patrick Boucheron, the mediatized historian who lambasts the right and intimidates the left
January 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Seen on Twitter. The AdvertBots have a great sense of humor #Musk:
January 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Philippe Buc
Reposted by Philippe Buc
After 1918,(...) Adolph Hitler and other German antisemites blamed defeat in the First World War on the machinations of international Jewry and the alleged disloyalty of German Jews.
January 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reposted by Philippe Buc
Citation:
Following the latest damage to undersea cables in the Baltic sea, affecting several coastal states, Finland recently seized a Russia-linked oil tanker. The vessel appears to be part of Russia’s shadow fleet and is suspected of intentionally damaging undersea infrastructure.
January 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM