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Saturday, July 05, 2025

"My Shaken America" - Some Fourth of July reflections by Andy Markovits in 2025

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 This is the English-language version of a speech that my friend Andy Markovits delivered at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany ...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

What is a "state"?

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Or to put the question slightly differently, what do we mean when we call something a "state"? Actually, uses of this term tend ...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

On Political Firewalls in Liberal Democracies (Andy Markovits)

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[My friend Andy Markovits has long been, among his other interests, an important analyst of German society and politics. Here he considers ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

European Elections 2019: A Preview of Europe’s New Political Order? (Andy Markovits & Zack Blumberg)

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How should we interpret the results of last week's European Parliament elections?  In this hot-take assessment, my friend Andy Markovits...
Monday, April 22, 2019

The Mueller Report (with redactions)

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Here is a link to a searchable on-line version of the Mueller Report, released (with redactions) on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Report On Th...
Monday, July 02, 2018

Andy Markovits & Heiko Beyer on "The long-standing interaction between anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism"

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In 2007 Andy Markovits published a valuable book on the historical traditions and contemporary forms of European anti-Americanism, Uncout...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Christmastime for the Jews – A seasonal collection

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These will be new for some of you, re-runs for others, but timely for all (or so I hope). With good will for Jews and goyim alike.   —Jeff...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

"The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign" (Matthew Yglesias)

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If we wind up electing a dangerous and manifestly unfit authoritarian xenophobic demagogue—who also happens to be a shameless pathological l...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Slavoj Žižek would vote for Trump

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As we approach our extremely serious political moment of truth on November 8, here's a bit of comic relief (of the "grimly amusing...
Monday, August 01, 2016

Obama sticks to his central vision (continued)

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This is a follow-up to my post last Friday, " Obama sticks to his central vision ".  One of the responses I got came from my frien...