I will never get used to the vacuous synchronicity of American leisure alongside wars: the latest bridal fashion, old Kindles dying, best chocolate. Life goes on in wars, always. But this cover is not about life - it is about forgetting, denial, erasure and … consumption.
Excellent account of encounters between the Vatican/Pentagon emissaries Christophe Pierre/Eldridge Colby. The article concludes with Pierre’s words: “The world is wrong when it treats aggression like wisdom and domination as realism. Refusal of hate is not weakness. Love is stronger than death.”
Unaffordable daycare is a problem
lack of public health care/insurance is a problem
Lack of paid parental leave is a problem
Abortion bans that make difficult pregnancies into crimes is a problem
Expensive housing is a problem
Fewer teen pregnancies is NOT a problem
In that vein, Chile has been replacing its old Mercedes public transport buses with modern 100% electric BYD buses. It’s not like they were coerced to do it by China, it’s more like that the Germans live in a long-gone era and refuse to build modern vehicles. The BYD buses are excellent quality.
The image is smalish but the withdrawals are huge. Private capital holders continue to price the current political/economic moment with attempts at mass exit.
This is a very strange interpretation of “politicization,” in which purges are somehow politically neutral. According to such logic voter suppression would not count as politicization either.
I am perplexed by the use of “beyond the obvious” here. Is the replacement of minorities and women non-political because it is obvious?
The Villages came out by thousands on No Kings Day. And too middle class.
But the real question is - where is Saint Helena?
Florida.
“Perhaps most strikingly of all, the data demonstrates that women were far more often engaged in paid employment than historians have tended to assume.”
Looking forward to Lisbon for @europeanisa.bsky.social, presenting the work that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social & I are doing on youth militarisation in #Russia and appearing on a roundtable about the new book War Economy edited by @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True
www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
Europe may not rebound. Hit by COVID, the US push to de-couple from China, Biden’s IRA, the Ukraine war and the switch from Russian gas to the US/Gulf LPG, AI and platforms, Trump’s tariffs, loss of Chinese market, and now Hormuz: what’s left is a retirement zone. And it’s not even Florida ….
Apply!!!! I can think of a number of amazing IPE/CPE scholars 3-5 years from their PhDs who would be extremely well qualified for this position and could *diversify* Max Planck intellectually, geographically, and demographically.
Filipino defence minister Gilbert Teodoro today: “It is of vital importance to us that the strait of Hormuz be opened immediately and kept safe. Not only for the seafarers, but also for Philippine consumers. The poor Filipinos who need to pay astronomical prices for electricity, fuel, and power.”
This was/is a great book. And so misunderstood. History repeats on a loop.
The deadline for this year's CEEISA proposals - papers, panels, and roundtables - is April 10, 2026. The theme - Contesting Imperialism(s) - could not be more urgent, and Sarajevo and its history are an important vantage point from which to reconsider empires, their legacies, and their future!
Charles Tilley was correct: states are organized criminal institutions. They generate threats to extract resources; they disguise their racketeering as protection.
Unlike mafias, however, states do not take care of the needy in their communities. They just throw them to the wolves.
Wow. And just like that, Europe is a rocket ship now.
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Another BANger from @cornelban.bsky.social
On energy geoeconomics
geoeconomic.substack.com/p/energy-res...
@profpaulpoast.bsky.social now says that we are in a world war. We are confronted with a global conflict led by governments that most of us do not support. Bodies as fodder for new and experimental weapons, techno-dystopia as a likely outcome. A reminder: nothing like war to find moral purpose.
Always worth reading 👇
This is so lovely. 🤓 Thanks to the @hist-isanet.bsky.social for showcasing historical work and to the committee for recognising Erased with this prize. 🥂 Congratulations to Yan Long for their honourable mention.
1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including
freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable."
Excellent report by UNCTAD
unctad.org/system/files...
What inflation? Food is for the poor. Let them eat cake.
The 47th POTUS may not know the difference between a war and a reality TV show. He seems to think he can just change the channel or switch it off and on as he pleases.
Leyla, please let me know if you consider coming!
Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com
