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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...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Obama sticks to his central vision

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One of the things that Barack Obama delivered in his speech at the Democratic National Convention, which has to rank among his truly great ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Vote for the wolf ... to send them a message

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This cartoon , which seems to be doing the rounds in Europe, brilliantly captures one element in the current political mood on both sides of...