Liselotte Willer
@liselottewiller.dk
I'm a theologian interested in philosophy, history of ideas and in political economics and history.
My life is complete with a camera in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
My life is complete with a camera in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
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The Polish government annlunced that they will honour the ECJ ruling and implement recognition of same-sex marriages certificates from abroad.
Obviously, the PiS-supported president is very much against, but he has no say in the matter.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/26/p...
Obviously, the PiS-supported president is very much against, but he has no say in the matter.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/26/p...
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Polish government annlunced that they will honour the ECJ ruling and implement recognition of same-sex marriages certificates from abroad.
Obviously, the PiS-supported president is very much against, but he has no say in the matter.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/26/p...
Obviously, the PiS-supported president is very much against, but he has no say in the matter.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/26/p...
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"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
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It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
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Respecting the marble means respecting the grain.
Writing is the same. Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict. It’s a sign that you need a skeleton.
Link: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/feeling-st...
Big thanks to @simonkuper.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts
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Writing is the same. Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict. It’s a sign that you need a skeleton.
Link: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/feeling-st...
Big thanks to @simonkuper.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts
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Feeling Stuck? Start With the Skeleton
Why the Hardest Part of Writing Happens Before the First Sentence
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Respecting the marble means respecting the grain.
Writing is the same. Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict. It’s a sign that you need a skeleton.
Link: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/feeling-st...
Big thanks to @simonkuper.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts
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Writing is the same. Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict. It’s a sign that you need a skeleton.
Link: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/feeling-st...
Big thanks to @simonkuper.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts
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Very rich blog post by Catherine, which includes me banging on about my writing ideology: don't write a word until you've made a complete plan of what you're going to say
Respecting the marble means respecting the grain.
Writing is the same. Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict. It’s a sign that you need a skeleton.
Link: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/feeling-st...
Big thanks to @simonkuper.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts
/end
Writing is the same. Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict. It’s a sign that you need a skeleton.
Link: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/feeling-st...
Big thanks to @simonkuper.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts
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Feeling Stuck? Start With the Skeleton
Why the Hardest Part of Writing Happens Before the First Sentence
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Very rich blog post by Catherine, which includes me banging on about my writing ideology: don't write a word until you've made a complete plan of what you're going to say
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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For some pre-Budget reading (open access) about fiscal dilemmas, economic restraint, and the politics of tax:
bsky.app/profile/bjpi...
bsky.app/profile/bjpi...
📝 New BJPIR article out now!
'Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945' by Colm Murphy (@colmpm.bsky.social) & Patrick Diamond
⬇️ Find the article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QV4liQE
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
'Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945' by Colm Murphy (@colmpm.bsky.social) & Patrick Diamond
⬇️ Find the article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QV4liQE
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945
Available in #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For some pre-Budget reading (open access) about fiscal dilemmas, economic restraint, and the politics of tax:
bsky.app/profile/bjpi...
bsky.app/profile/bjpi...
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Meanwhile, a recent poll indicates that 47% of Austrian respondents want "a different political system", among FPÖ supporters that's 70%...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Meanwhile, a recent poll indicates that 47% of Austrian respondents want "a different political system", among FPÖ supporters that's 70%...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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Turning to the sector level we find descriptive evidence supporting our hypotheses that the political capital and the organizational setting of different sectors of voluntary civil society mattered for the impact of the lockdowns and in particular for the reopening of the sectors.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Turning to the sector level we find descriptive evidence supporting our hypotheses that the political capital and the organizational setting of different sectors of voluntary civil society mattered for the impact of the lockdowns and in particular for the reopening of the sectors.
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How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19 - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil socie...
link.springer.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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At the moment I'm thinking a lot about my brilliant (& offline) colleague Oddný Helgadóttir's suggestion that our intellectual priors (read: rationalist assumptions about political behaviour) may not be very helpful for making sense of the world rn
you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
At the moment I'm thinking a lot about my brilliant (& offline) colleague Oddný Helgadóttir's suggestion that our intellectual priors (read: rationalist assumptions about political behaviour) may not be very helpful for making sense of the world rn
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Yes. Plus, nobody’s talking about those files anymore, or the worst betrayal of an ally since Munich…
Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yes. Plus, nobody’s talking about those files anymore, or the worst betrayal of an ally since Munich…
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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Every Labour MP, SPAD and apparatchik should read this, then read it again. @casmudde.bsky.social with a perfect distillation of why the feted 'Danish model' doesn't work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Every Labour MP, SPAD and apparatchik should read this, then read it again. @casmudde.bsky.social with a perfect distillation of why the feted 'Danish model' doesn't work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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was already feeling insane from the Trump/Mamdani meeting but I now worry that my brain chemistry will simply never be the same
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
was already feeling insane from the Trump/Mamdani meeting but I now worry that my brain chemistry will simply never be the same
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Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Sometimes you need to hear that you're not the only one feeling that way. Yeah, it's sweary; but it's also one of @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's very best - and that's a high bar.
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sometimes you need to hear that you're not the only one feeling that way. Yeah, it's sweary; but it's also one of @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's very best - and that's a high bar.
This newsletter is worth reading, and why is well educated people not identifying being led by their noses into an abyss of ignorance?
I can only agree with the last sentence “Our world is stupid and hateful and it didn’t have to be this way but here we are. Fucking hell.”
I can only agree with the last sentence “Our world is stupid and hateful and it didn’t have to be this way but here we are. Fucking hell.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This newsletter is worth reading, and why is well educated people not identifying being led by their noses into an abyss of ignorance?
I can only agree with the last sentence “Our world is stupid and hateful and it didn’t have to be this way but here we are. Fucking hell.”
I can only agree with the last sentence “Our world is stupid and hateful and it didn’t have to be this way but here we are. Fucking hell.”
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Smart point about Twitter from an excellent post on the same.
For the vast majority of people, being in a place where your every post is met with a torrent of hateful, abusive, personal bile does not make you a more open thinker through 'debate', it huddles you in an intellectual defensive crouch.
For the vast majority of people, being in a place where your every post is met with a torrent of hateful, abusive, personal bile does not make you a more open thinker through 'debate', it huddles you in an intellectual defensive crouch.
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Smart point about Twitter from an excellent post on the same.
For the vast majority of people, being in a place where your every post is met with a torrent of hateful, abusive, personal bile does not make you a more open thinker through 'debate', it huddles you in an intellectual defensive crouch.
For the vast majority of people, being in a place where your every post is met with a torrent of hateful, abusive, personal bile does not make you a more open thinker through 'debate', it huddles you in an intellectual defensive crouch.
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Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
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In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...
Destitute by design: trapped in the immigration system
Migration policy is not only failing people forced to arrive in Britain by
boats. In an extract from a new edited volume, Daniel Trilling reports on t...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...
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@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely.
In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Etched in Marble: Erik Voeten on Time, Clarity, and Moving Ideas Beyond Academia
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely.
In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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