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Henry Farrell is an Irish-born political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at the University of Toronto and… more

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by Henry Farrell — Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders

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"Instead, the Trump administration is betting its chips on public pressure. That ... encourages the public to get involved on the other side. Alumni will get organized, pressing university leaders not to sign a compact that could well permanently ruin their reputations. "
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by Henry Farrell

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Modesty should forbid, but clearly it doesn't www.amazon.com/Underground-...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy [Farrell, Henry, Newman, Abraham] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
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by Jacob T. Levy — Reposted by Henry Farrell, Ben H. Ansell, Elizabeth Saunders , and 12 more

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Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
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by Henry Farrell

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[can we pay you to stop?]

Some serious Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz energy happening here.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Simon Lester

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Don't look now but Trump just freaked out the market again by continuing to escalate the trade war.
I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
moving away some from focusing all the fire on the left, and towards a more sophisticated account of moderation.
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
the mood music isn't my mood music obviously, but big points of this piece are basically right www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats need to debate ideas, not people
Endless establishment retreads are not the same as the center of public opinion.
www.slowboring.com
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by Henry Farrell — Reposted by Jacob T. Levy, Wendy Pearlman

himself.bsky.social
this is a further sign of weakness, not strength, imo. It's not the red state publics that they needed to set off a general stampede. It's places like MIT. Turning this into a red state thing makes it _less_ likely to spread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Reposted by Henry Farrell

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STORY - US warned Dutch months ago that Nexperia CEO must go to avoid entity list fallout: court

www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
US warned Dutch Nexperia CEO must go to avoid entity list fallout: court
Court documents released by Amsterdam Court of Appeal show the US told Dutch officials in June about a forthcoming change in the entity list.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Brian Weatherson, Paul Nightingale

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It's out! My review of "Abundance", my review of "Breakneck" and the slogan "rent extraction is always what the other guy does"
open.substack.com/pub/hypertex...
What happens when Chinese resolve meets American rent-seeking?
Reading "Abundance" and "Breakneck" side by side suggests that learning from one another is not enough.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Steve Peers

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I read Caleb Nelson's piece on the removal power and I was taken with a reference he makes in the conclusion.
When the First Congress confronted the same ambiguities, more than one member warned against interpreting the Constitution in the expectation that all Presidents would have the sterling character of George Washington. The current Supreme Court may likewise see itself as interpreting the Constitution for the ages, and perhaps some of the Justices take comfort in the idea that future Presidents will not all have the character of Donald Trump. But the future is not guaranteed; a President bent on vengeful, destructive, and lawless behavior can do lasting damage to our norms and institutions. As one member of Congress argued in 1789, we should not gravitate toward interpretations of the Constitution that “legaliz[e] the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
"Australia doesn’t just excel at big renewables and big batteries. Four million homes produce rooftop solar; a few weeks ago, those households temporarily supplied 55% of demand on the National Electricity Market, Westerman said."
As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…
The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…
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Reposted by Henry Farrell

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Would you prefer the white nationalism replies?
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Aaron Sojourner

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Here is some findings from a survey experiment I did. We tested support for candidates based on support liberal democracy vs strengthening anti-corruption.

Anti-corruption was much higher than traditional liberal democracy AND its resilient to partisanship!
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-l...
What the left can learn from evangelical churches
The lessons of Hahrie Han's Undivided
www.programmablemutter.com
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Reposted by Henry Farrell

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7/ For a longer analysis of how this has played out and the ways in which the nationalist international is now seeking to drive their agenda through weaponized interdependence check out this piece w/ @himself.bsky.social.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...
«Enshittification» : la nouvelle doctrine de l'Empire américain | Le Grand Continent
Le plan de l’administration Trump pour faire du reste du monde un vassal d’extrême droite — et les moyens pour le déjouer. Une pièce de doctrine signée Henry Farrell et Abraham Newman.
legrandcontinent.eu
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
yes - that one. Not as good as In The Line of Fire, but quite satisfying.
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
"The Package" is a very solid Cold War thriller if you have Amazon Prime and are looking for entertainment of an evening
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Reposted by Henry Farrell

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If you had to update @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social’s book, you could say that, as far as the federal government is concerned, that invisible boundary between the law bound USA and the rest of the world is now gone.
Although Smith did not explicitly say so, the biggest problem was the United States. Years before, NSA director Michael Hayden and his colleagues had inscribed an invisible boundary, separating the United States of America, where government was bound by laws and citizen rights, from a lawless outside world where the NSA could grab information it thought was in America's interests. Now, not just foreign terrorists but American multinationals found that they fell outside the zone of protection.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Joanna Bryson

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Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Christian Odendahl, Edgar Morgenroth

fbermingham.bsky.social
A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world

The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere
Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia
Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives
open.substack.com
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by Henry Farrell — Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Rosemary A. Joyce

himself.bsky.social
My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Steve Peers, Bryan D. Jones , and 5 more

jamellebouie.net
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
mine was Revelations 3:16 but nothing will top this
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 4d
Exodus 8:4.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 4d
John 18:38.
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Reposted by Henry Farrell, Laleh Khalili

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Exodus 8:4.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 4d
John 18:38.
Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
you can't be doing without the whole thing web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/po...
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o... I'm unreasonably pleased that the end of this fantastic piece provides a NYT shortlist of opinion pieces on "reclaiming the constitution" that includes my own. There's something in the air that both pick up on.
Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Henry Farrell

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“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...
www.cnn.com
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by Kori Schake — Reposted by Henry Farrell

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The whole thread’s a great education about how China is using permission structures the US pioneered.
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 5d
4/China has learned from US playbook. It doesn’t just limit bilateral dependence but network dependence. any firm using Chinese machines (which is almost all) have to get licenses. It is a Chinese version of US foreign direct product rule in semiconductors.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Weaponized World Economy
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...
www.foreignaffairs.com
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by Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social
This was my impression of Naples a few weeks ago too. There is a lively, vibrant street culture in the days and evenings in a way that just doesn't happen in the bits of the US I know. Crowds of folks - young, middle aged and old, wandering and chatting in the evening.
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