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Jan-Werner Mueller
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
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Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary. Posting in a personal capacity. Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review. Representation: Wylie. .. more

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 6h
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7h
Good assessment of the various U.S. media by @markjacob.bsky.social confirming that the best traditional media source on U.S. politics is @us.theguardian.com
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7h
Good assessment of the various U.S. media by @markjacob.bsky.social confirming that the best traditional media source on U.S. politics is @us.theguardian.com
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
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atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 14h
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 15h
What can we learn from Hungary's experience when conceptualising academic freedom?

ANDRÁS L. PAP offers eight lessons as part of our current symposium on Article 13 of the Charter.

verfassungsblog.de/hungary-acad...
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 15h
What can we learn from Hungary's experience when conceptualising academic freedom?

ANDRÁS L. PAP offers eight lessons as part of our current symposium on Article 13 of the Charter.

verfassungsblog.de/hungary-acad...
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15h
"In keinem der Bundestagswahlkreise im blauen Meer im Osten hat die AfD die absolute Mehrheit. Umgekehrt drängt sie längst auch in den Städten vom Rand in die Zentren vor."
Tagung in Basel: Wie autoritäre Kräfte die Moderne herausfordern
Die Moderne steht unter Druck. Bedeutet das weltweite Erstarken autoritärer Kräfte das Ende ihres Fortschrittsversprechens? Und ist die Linke wirklich selbst daran schuld? Eine Tagung in Basel untersu...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17h
‘The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...
www.lrb.co.uk
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 17h
“…Christians need to be aware that postliberal should not mean »national conservative«. The latter is genealogically but another version of liberalism with its adulation of absolute sovereignty both as a salve for its own individualism and yet as individualism writ collectively large..."
ENGLISH THEOLOGIAN AND PHILOSOPHER PROF. EM. DR JOHN MILBANK If Politics Is Not About Promoting Virtue, Then It Is About Promoting Vice - Glas Koncila
»With the vanishing of Christian culture and the classical legacy from which it grew, the liberal assumptions embedded in our society have blurred the line between the legal and the criminal, mafiaizi...
www.glas-koncila.hr
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 1d
New attempt at "Divide and Rule:"
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...
www.bloomberg.com
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 1d
Grozev:

"Aber wenn ein Diktator süchtig danach wird, ständig gelobt zu werden, dann macht das die anderen, die echten Journalisten, in seinen Augen noch verabscheuungswürdiger."
Investigativreporter Christo Grozev wird von Putins Agenten verfolgt
Christo Grozev ist ein furchtloser Reporter. Wegen seiner Recherchen steht er auf Putins Todesliste. Nun wurde Grozev als europäischer Journalist des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Was bedeutet ihm das? Und wi...
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 1d
... it seemed for once a well-researched piece on HU ...
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 1d
File under: Why billionaire owners are not the solution for securing a free press.

ICYMI: Benioff has also come out as a more or less unconditional Trump supporter.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie
Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle HIS TRIUMPH by ERIC CORTELLESSA THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED by EHUD BARAK HOW GAZA HEALS
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d
I think the main barrier to honest, direct coverage from the mainstream media in Trump 1.0 was professional norms/reflexive both sides-ism. In 2.0, that's still a factor, but a bigger barrier may be ownership. Reporters/editors know that many media owners are wary of too much anti-Trump coverage.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie
Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle HIS TRIUMPH by ERIC CORTELLESSA THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED by EHUD BARAK HOW GAZA HEALS
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Fabrice Arfi @fabricearfi.bsky.social · 1d
« Non, Nicolas Sarkozy n’est pas une victime ».

La tribune très forte dans @liberation.fr des vraies victimes de l'affaire des financements libyens, reconnues comme telles par le tribunal de Paris : les familles de victimes de l'attentat terroriste contre le DC-10.
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Nous, les «filles du DC10», étions au procès Sarkozy et nous avons vu s’exercer une justice humaine et respectueuse
Composé de sœurs ou de filles des 170 victimes de l’attentat organisé par le régime de Kadhafi en 1989, le collectif était au procès des «financements libyens». Elles battent en brèche l’idée d’un «ac...
www.liberation.fr
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
“We dishonor those who came before us if in this moment of crisis we remain silent,” Mr. Stevenson said. “I don’t think it’s just unempathetic. I don’t think it’s just cowardly. I think it’s dishonorable."
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
"...many of the late-analytic philosophers...boasted even in the 1970s that they never read novels, and for them MacIntyre’s (and Rorty’s) recognition of literature’s value was a sign that they had...put philosophy on a slippery slope which was likely to lead to cultural and political disaster."
Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).
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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2d
I’d go on a search for all the Independence Benches which the Polish public were “gifted” (that is, paid for from their taxes) by PiS in 2018 on the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence. (Finland celebrated its 100th the year before; it got a beautiful new library)
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
"Academia is broken"-pseudo-reporting is some people's unrealistic morning lament.

(As oposed to...: "Das Zeitungslesen des Morgens früh ist eine Art von realistischem Morgensegen").
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d
This confused "kids these days" lament that offers very little empirical support for a set of remarkable bold assertions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
www.nytimes.com
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
"...die Perspektive des westeuropäischen Christentums der Nachkriegszeit, das...eine stark verfreundlichte und ins Sozialethische gewendete Variante der christlichen Religion darstellt."

Und die entfreundlichte rechtfertigt sich wie nochmal...?
Religiöse Rechte in den USA: Christentum im Kampfmodus
In den Vereinigten Staaten fällt die Kluft zwischen den Parteien immer stärker mit einer religiösen Kluft ineinander. Darin steckt eine Lehre für Europa.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 2d
"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...
People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.
"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."
www.niemanlab.org
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VSquare.org @vsquare.bsky.social · 2d
⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.
Sponsored Hate: How Politicians Paid for Meta Ads to Attack Journalists - VSquare.org
Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.
vsquare.org
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 2d
"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
Truth-telling. It seems so easy when it’s done. You just have to do it.

Of course Trump might now threaten ABC with a lawsuit for claiming that Vance had not answered the question…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d
The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline: bit.ly/3IZMSdG
Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections
Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.
www.brennancenter.org
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2d
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
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