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 ...
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
Here is this coven of exalted divines... They are not advancing the business of Christ, just their delusions or business
February 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
AdBots on X comment immediatly 😝
February 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
January 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
He parroted this! Who is the gentleman so quoted? His feed on X is a lesson in PRC political culture.
January 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Well, he is a very strong manly man, a true emperor
January 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Seen on Twitter. The AdvertBots have a great sense of humor #Musk:
January 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It is a sexually transmitted virus spreading among oligarchs, and no vaccine !
January 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
NYT by Andrew Ross Sorkin:
January 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We need a truth-sayer to mine the mind of Jeff Bezos
January 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
He looks like the emperor in the prequel to Dune -- Javicco Corrino
January 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
One mercenary gone, the Hugh Grant look-alike Nick Clegg, replaced by...
January 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Pious America manages to combine Mammon and God's Word. Not as bad as Jihadis who finance War in the path of God with drugs...
December 27, 2024 at 1:33 PM
It has been important for the US to control oil. One explanation can be that this was the way to defeat Japan, and that this is an important card against China. Another is the relationship between oil and the US dollar. There are many other. Or as one says,
December 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
As usual, Amnesty defends everything and its contrary. But complicated, as e.g. in France the hijab is often enough a weapon for separatism, what it seems less to be in the Netherlands that I know. The equation -- putting the two side-by-side -- is in itself problematic.
December 15, 2024 at 7:11 AM
The US is a violent country, with a culture colored by manichean Puritanism. Thus in the years to come, expect assassination attempts. To be an American is to be ready to shoot: "Am I an American now?"...
December 13, 2024 at 11:15 AM
December 11, 2024 at 2:38 PM
December 11, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I cannot resist the slogan I already mentioned: "Incest, the game the whole family can play".
December 11, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Good discussion there (on X) ... I wish it were here

A recent article in French would serve well the debate: does US war-making concentrate too much on battlefield victories and does not integrate it enough with strategic (geopolitical) long-term thinking?
December 10, 2024 at 10:07 AM
A telling post by Baby Trump. Why would he feel the need to say such things about an EU election?
December 7, 2024 at 1:52 PM
x.com/PM_ViktorOrb... Two future jailbirds...
December 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM
December 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM