Steve Cucharo
@stevecucharo.bsky.social
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“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
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Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
New German Critique: Forthcoming Issues
Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Things are happening in Tampa
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Things are happening in Tampa
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🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Was taugt der Begriff "demokratischer Faschismus"?
Eine Rezension:
Eine Rezension:
Jan-Werner Müller · Was ist demokratisch am «demokratischen Faschismus»?
Mit ihrem Begriff des «libertären Autoritarismus» bestimmten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey die Post-Pandemie-Diskussion über neue und aggressive politische Lagerbildungen. Ihr Buch Zerstörungsl...
blnreview.de
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Was taugt der Begriff "demokratischer Faschismus"?
Eine Rezension:
Eine Rezension:
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For a deep dive into the granular details, please see here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.
www.americanprogress.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
For a deep dive into the granular details, please see here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person
October 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person
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If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
This is one of the best episodes of The Dig I’ve ever heard
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...
www.thedigradio.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is one of the best episodes of The Dig I’ve ever heard
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1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️
Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
www.cambridge.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️
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Check out my new article! “A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech - Kevin D. Pham, 2025
This article reconstructs a postcolonial theory of free speech from the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm (NVGP), a free speech movement among intellectuals who proclaimed sup...
journals.sagepub.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Check out my new article! “A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Me, desperately trying to relate to my students: “Many say that Heidegger is cringe.”
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Me, desperately trying to relate to my students: “Many say that Heidegger is cringe.”
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An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
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Here's 90 minutes with @adamprz.bsky.social,
Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and
@dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...
Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and
@dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...
The State of American Democracy with Steven Levitsky, Adam Przeworski, Susan Stokes and Daniel Ziblatt | The Civic Forum E10
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Here's 90 minutes with @adamprz.bsky.social,
Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and
@dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...
Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and
@dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...
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I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?
They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.
Is this just me or are others seeing it?
They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.
Is this just me or are others seeing it?
September 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?
They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.
Is this just me or are others seeing it?
They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.
Is this just me or are others seeing it?
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I need to know more about Anders. Obviously relevant to debates around AI, but not just AI, also the shrugging acceptance of state violence.
Günther Anders, a forgotten prophet for the 21st century? | Aeon Essays
From the ashes of the Second World War, Günther Anders forecast a new catastrophe: technology would overwhelm its creators
aeon.co
September 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I need to know more about Anders. Obviously relevant to debates around AI, but not just AI, also the shrugging acceptance of state violence.
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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
www.versobooks.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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Valentina > Frank’s > Cholula > Siete > Yucateco > Melinda’s > Tapatio > Texas Pete=Crystal=Louisiana > Old Bay Hot Sauce > Rooster sriracha > Tabasco
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Valentina > Frank’s > Cholula > Siete > Yucateco > Melinda’s > Tapatio > Texas Pete=Crystal=Louisiana > Old Bay Hot Sauce > Rooster sriracha > Tabasco
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The Aziz x Osita collab is the one we all need right now
In @thebaffler.com, Aziz Rana and @ositanwanevu.com discuss Nwanevu’s new book, the return of Trump, and the pathway to democratic change.
Remake America | Aziz Rana
If we want democracy to survive, we need a vision that’s going to be more compelling than the one the authoritarians are offering.
thebaffler.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The Aziz x Osita collab is the one we all need right now
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Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...