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Opinion | ‘We Will Do It in Charlie’s Name’

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · 27d

Thomas Edsall sets the record straight. My summary: The US has a fascist government. Not that it wasn't clear from the start. But there can be no more doubts now. #freespeech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Sep 13

Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination

Rather than condemning violence and calling for unity, the president of the United States accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Sep 4

A dialogue with ChatGPT on bullshitting and AI

The #Aipersatisfaction series No. 2

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Aug 30

Great piece by Jonathan Freedland Democracies die slowly and then suddenly www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Artificial Intelligence in Universities: Between Bans and Academic Embraces

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Aug 29

When you suspect an #AI #chatbot wrote your undergraduate student's final thesis chapter, what should you do? I ended up writing a substack post about it (but first...). #highereducation #universities #plagiarism: lucaenriques.substack.com/p/artificial...

A text by Claude, prompted by me.

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Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o... (powerful Thomas Friedman)

Kamala Harris has the momentum. Now comes the real test

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 19

Kamala Harris has the momentum. Now comes the real test

https://www.ft.com/content/5bc49ee5-92d3-4c6e-b1e8-127c982eba68

The Democratic candidate has overtaken Donald Trump in the polls and managed to rattle him, but the coming weeks will bring bigger hurdles

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Vitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa.bsky.social · Aug 31

Una proposta di legge vuole inserire in Costituzione la sovranità alimentare, intesa come diritto al cibo e tutela dell’identità nazionale.

Una farsa sul piano giuridico.

La Costituzione non è la raccolta indifferenziata dei desiderata del governo

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · May 28

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Online Petition Form with E-Signature | Luca Enriques

The #Trump administration is ever more aggressive in its war against #Harvard and the entire American #academia. For what it's worth, European academics may express their concern (and solidarity w...

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump

Forum speakers said Donald Trump’s second term resembles strongman Viktor Orbán’s first years in power

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jul 8

Let's hope #plaintifflawyers see this excellente piece by @jeff-at-cls.bsky.social (Jeff Gordon): clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/07/08/w...

What the Paramount Global Shareholders Are Rooting For

On July 1, Paramount Global settled the lawsuit brought by President Trump claiming personal harm from alleged “election interference” in the editing of an interview with Kamala Harris by CBS News’…

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jul 4

@jeff-at-cls.bsky.social

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jul 4

luca enriques on Substack

Remember when the Business Roundtable moved from shareholder to stakeholder wealth maximisation? Now is the time to put it into practice. #ESG #businesspurpose #stakeholder #slavery

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Army Was the Only Life She Knew. Trump’s Trans Ban Cast Her Out.

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jun 11

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator

Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jun 10

This: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is a Statement against the #Trump administration policies against universities and Harvard specifically. It has been signed by more than 500 European academics (and counting)

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · May 28

Online Petition Form with E-Signature | Luca Enriques

The #Trump administration is ever more aggressive in its war against #Harvard and the entire American #academia. For what it's worth, European academics may express their concern (and solidarity w...

www.linkedin.com

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · May 29

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The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist

He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.

Opinion | The War in Ukraine Is Not as Far Away as Trump Thinks

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · May 22

The War in Ukraine Is Not as Far Away as Trump Thinks www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...

A brief guide for Americans

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 18

@donwinslow.bsky.social, please start double-posting in this space. Feels quite empty, to be fair, but we should keep trying

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 15

Either there is a reaction or it'll be State terror open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

State Terror

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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 15

When you elect an evil, corrupt, stupid person to the Presidency, expect the worst. This. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump’s administration is only pretending to comply with the Supreme Court on the matter of a Maryland man it deported erroneously.

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 7

Poor Janet #Yellen. Did she ever say that? According to Perplexity, she did not

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 7

Or capriciousness

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 7

Can't a court suspend Trump's tariffs based on their apparent irrationality?

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Apr 6

Just deactivated my #X account. It feels... liberating. #liberationday

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE @safefrankfurt.bsky.social · Mar 28

📝New SAFE Working Paper No. 445 "Venture Capital Contracting as Bargaining in the Shadow of Corporate Law Constraints" by @lucaenriques.bsky.social , Casimiro Antonio Nigro, Tobias Tröger.

👉Find it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... #EconSky #law

📝New SAFE Working Paper No. 445 "Venture Capital Contracting as Bargaining in the Shadow of Corporate Law Constraints" by Luca Enriques, Casimiro Antonio Nigro, Tobias Tröger, from March 2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Luca Enriques @lucaenriques.bsky.social · Mar 19

Opinion | The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attacks on Trans People

The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.