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by Bruce Buchan

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The timing of the film ‘Nuremberg’ could hardly be more acute. There will come a time…
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by Bruce Buchan

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There is an old adage to the effect that ‘a nation only ever gets the politicians it deserves’. That should send an existential shiver down any sentient American spine.

by Bruce Buchan

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None of these weirdos understand history. Nor do they take any interest in it. What matters to them is nurturing their own resentments, nursing grievances into an existential disposition - to supply their want of retrospection with the solipsistic illusion of their singular victimisation.
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by Bruce Buchan

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If J.D. Vance is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
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by Bruce Buchan

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If we accept AI as the primary mediation of the most basic forms of human experience, and use it to navigate the most primary of interactions, then we forfeit our very humanity.
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by Bruce Buchan

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History will record it as The Great Patriotic Portland War. It will be regarded by future generations as an axis in world history, after which no nation will be from the scourge of a dancing T-Rex.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Reposted by Bruce Buchan, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson , and 44 more

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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by Bruce Buchan

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Our book launch is happening, at IASH in Edinburgh, October 29. It was there that @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I first met, and had an idea that we might do some work together. That was in 2012! If you'll be in Edinburgh then, please come to our launch. Details below.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 6d
Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)

Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks

Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion
Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".
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Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)

Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks

Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.

raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion
Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".
raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
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by Bruce Buchan

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When I was studying political science 30 years ago, we kept being told about democratic governments being concerned to govern within the bounds of ‘legitimacy’. Anyways…
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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 9d
The heinous nature of this comes from nothing but a place of pure evil. None of this should be happening, and none of it would be if we had a leader who cared about something other than cruelty, vengeance and hate. A blood thirsty administration intent on inflicting as much pain as possible…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10d
THERE’S NO BOTTOM WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Operation “Freaky Friday”, a calculated scheme targeting some of the most vulnerable people in the country: immigrant children.

ICE is sending letters offering minors $2,500 for “voluntary” departure, while threatening enforcement if they refuse.
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by Bruce Buchan

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Gettysburg, 2.0.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 9d
Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
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Reposted by Bruce Buchan, Elizabeth Saunders, Colin F. Camerer , and 6 more

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Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
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The heinous nature of this comes from nothing but a place of pure evil. None of this should be happening, and none of it would be if we had a leader who cared about something other than cruelty, vengeance and hate. A blood thirsty administration intent on inflicting as much pain as possible…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10d
THERE’S NO BOTTOM WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Operation “Freaky Friday”, a calculated scheme targeting some of the most vulnerable people in the country: immigrant children.

ICE is sending letters offering minors $2,500 for “voluntary” departure, while threatening enforcement if they refuse.
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by Bruce Buchan

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AI is for dummies who want us all to remain as stupid as they are.
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by Bruce Buchan

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Many think that time travel was a creation of science fiction. It wasn’t. It began as a presumption of Enlightenment thought, and became a concomitant of global colonisation in the #C18th.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10d
1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:
A quotation from the below text
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by Bruce Buchan

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What exactly qualifies him to be called a ‘political heavyweight’ beyond the incessant media attention given to his petulance?

by Bruce Buchan

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With thanks to @global-ih.bsky.social for promoting my article on mobility, Enlightenment, war and colonisation.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10d
1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:
A quotation from the below text
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Reposted by Bruce Buchan, Margot C. Finn

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1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:
A quotation from the below text
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by Bruce Buchan

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A tale of two countries.

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Reposted by Bruce Buchan, Cas Mudde, Marc Lynch , and 12 more

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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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by Bruce Buchan

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The original (and only) Dark Enlightenment.

by Bruce Buchan

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Why not? They’ve already disappeared Big Bird.
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by Bruce Buchan

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I always chuckle that the image of a ‘lecture’ I use in presentations on university education and the Scottish Enlightenment is actually of Graham speaking to a rapt audience, probably extolling the merits of his celestial bed.

by Bruce Buchan

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Yes. It’s so woeful. In the same way they’ve refused (until recently) to describe the bloodbath in Gaza as genocidal.
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by Bruce Buchan

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Alarming stuff.
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by Bruce Buchan

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Can we all just now admit that over 20 years on from the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden definitively won the the ‘war on terror’. The US is now demonstrably weaker, more divided, animated by more strident extremism, and governed by their own version of the Taliban.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15d
“The oath says enemies foreign and domestic… well, we also have domestic.”

Trump tells the generals he plans to use the military against Americans
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Reposted by Bruce Buchan, David Johnson, David R. Miller

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“The oath says enemies foreign and domestic… well, we also have domestic.”

Trump tells the generals he plans to use the military against Americans
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by Bruce Buchan

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The digital panopticon.

by Bruce Buchan

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A scandal of enormous proportions. A debasement of public service, a fraud committed by government against its own people, that drove some to suicide. And none of those responsible held to account. But in spite of it all, a story of tremendous courage.
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