Antoine Bailleux on the ECJ, Hungary, and the Legal Power of Values

My first podcast is on the ECJ-case against Hungary on European Values. In view of the ECJ's verdict on 21/04/26 Antoine Bailleux and I discuss the increasing use of values before the ECJ (and the risks). Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6Y23...
Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/s...

On 21/04, the European Court of Justice will rule in a historic case: European Commission against Hungary, over anti‑LGBT laws. In our podcast, Wim Weymans speaks with UCLouvain European law professor Antoine Bailleux.
#European_values #Hungary #ECJ #Orban #LGBTQ+
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I have a thing for elegant 1960s institutional spaces. Like the panoramic restaurant at the national library in Brussels. Just one of its attractions.

As AI becomes increasingly integrated with education, educators and researchers are finding that it may be eroding students' capacity for original thought and expression. https://cnn.it/4sT96Qw

Wie zonder ticket op de trein stapt, moet ‘boete’ van 90 euro betalen: “Maatregel moet agressie tegen personeel tegengaan” Wie vanaf 1 juli op de trein stapt, kan niet langer op de trein een ticket kopen. Wie toch zonder een vervoersbewijs opstapt, moet 90 euro betalen. “De maatregel moet zwartrijden en agressie tegen onze treinbegeleiders tegengaan”, zegt de NMBS.

"In heel wat kleinere stations staat vandaag maar één ticketautomaat”, zegt TTB-voorzitter Peter Meukens. “Dan is het soms lang aanschuiven, zeker als er iemand voor je staat die voor de eerste keer met zo’n automaat werkt. Met het risico dat je niet tijdig een ticket kan kopen" tinyurl.com/545w5xwv

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The Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB welcomes you to the seminar :

'Cultural War or Mimetic Conflict? Illiberalism as Legitimacy in Contemporary Europe.

With Harald Wydra (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday, the 8th of April at 12:00
Kant Room
F.D. Roosevelt Av, 39, 1050 Bxl

A Republic of Discussion | The Point Magazine Communication is not for Habermas a simple empirical phenomenon. Rather it has, in his view, the dual structure that is characteristic of the major ideological constructs of Western history, for insta...

Und wenn Ihr mal eine sehr elegant geschriebene, unterhaltsame & sehr grundsätzliche Kritik an Habermas‘ Projekt & Konzept der „Kommunikativen Handlung“ lesen wollt (die ich sehr überzeugend finde), dann lest noch diesen Essay von Raymond Geuss zu Habermas 90.

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Quand un historien ouvre les archives, il ne trouve pas une histoire… mais des dizaines possibles.
Disparu le vendredi 13 mars, Jacques Revel rappelait que le premier geste de l’historien est d’avancer dans l’incertitude.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/X6i

Mort de Jacques Revel, théoricien de la micro-histoire Spécialiste de l’histoire sociale et culturelle européenne, le chercheur français qui a notamment dirigé l’EHESS s’est éteint jeudi à 83 ans.

Jacques Revel a notamment contribué à populariser le concept de «jeux d’échelle», une théorie selon laquelle un historien doit diversifier les niveaux d’observation afin de mieux saisir les sociétés du passé.

Jacques Revel (1942-2026) : le dernier entretien inédit L’historien Jacques Revel vient de s’éteindre. Ancien directeur des Annales, sa longue carrière épouse les tournants historiographiques les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Nous publions aujourd'hui cet entretien inédit sur sa trajectoire intellectuelle unique.

L’historien Jacques Revel vient de s’éteindre.

Ancien directeur des Annales, sa longue carrière épouse les tournants historiographiques les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle.

Entretien inédit sur une trajectoire intellectuelle unique.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Brüssel & Wien - tv.ORF.at tv.ORF.at: Robert Menasses Novelle „Die Lebensentscheidung“

Im Kultur.Montag (ORF2) geht es heute u.a. um das neue Buch von Robert Menasse, die Novelle "Die Lebensentscheidung"; der Autor ist auch zu Gast im Studio. tv.orf.at/program/orf2...

Ik kijk heel erg uit naar deze lezing van @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social ! Ben je op 26 maart in Leuven of in de buurt, schrijf dan zeker in! 👇

Frederick Wiseman, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, dies at 96 Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American institutions, died Monday at age 96.

Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of "Titicut Follies" and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American institutions, died Monday at age 96. https://to.pbs.org/3ZFuyLW

« L’histoire de la démocratie, ce n’est pas seulement l’histoire du suffrage universel »
Entretien avec Pierre Rosanvallon, réalisé par Simon Cottin-Marx et Julien Talpin.
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📢 The Voting & Democracy Research Group is thrilled to invite you to a book talk by Professor Natasha Wunsch on her recent publication, “Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding”.

🗓️ 20 January 2026 at 2:00 p.m. in room FSW 03.155.
📝 Registration: lnkd.in/dQGFXSiJ

23 | 2025 Traditions, révolutions, imaginaires : repenser le commu... ThéoRèmes est une revue consacrée à la philosophie des sciences des religions

Le n° 23 de ThéoRèmes met à l'honneur Michel de Certeau, avec un dossier coordonné par @phlppgnzlz.bsky.social et Carlos Alvarez. En sus, ce n° inaugure une nouvelle rubrique, "Traductions", avec dix textes de W. E. B. Du Bois traduits et introduits par @jostavodebauge.bsky.social
Bonne lecture !

"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."

Wider die Selbstgewissheit Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter

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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
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Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination | Polity: Vol 57, No 3

PIR’s Dr. Alicia Steinmetz recently published, “Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination.” Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.

With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social

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Prof. Standaert in front of his first slide.

An large audience showed up.

This Thrusday, I was able to join Prof. Nicolas Standaert‘s emeritation lecture on “The Art of Turning Muddled” (難得糊塗). From challenges universities are facing over their achievements to his famous 4Vs, it felt like he really brought together insights from his whole career.

‘One Does Not Escape the Philosophy of History’: The Disenchantment of the World and the Nature of Man By Stéphane Vibert

New piece! Stéphane Vibert on the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet, his rejection of teleological history, and “otherness” as a core element of modernity and human sociality. Check it out!

Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort - Dick Howard, 2023 After asking whether the concept of totalitarianism still has a meaning in today’s world, and whether its critique makes political sense, the author turns to th...

ICYMI: Dick Howard, 'Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort' - asks if the concept of totalitarianism still has meaning in today’s world, then turns to Lefort’s attempts to understand totalitarianism over the past 60 years. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Why, when, and how did #europeanvalues over their rivals as a tool to legitimize the European project? Find out in this new essay "Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

New publication, open access: Happy to see this last and maybe most important article of my PhD research published. I argue that liberal democracies cannot require 'shared values', neither of migrants (only), as is the case for the integration requirement... (1/4)
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Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen - Joop - BNNVARA Door groepen uit te sluiten en permanent verdacht te maken hanteren rechtspopulisten een totalitair middel dat de democratie blijvend zal beschadigen.

Bart Verheijen: Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Quentin Skinner and the Contested History of Freedom Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free for what?

"Quentin Skinner has [focused on] the loss of a republican vision of freedom from domination, as opposed to modern & libertarian freedom from interference that prevails today. And yet he's never shown much interest in what freedom is for" - @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

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Conflicting ideas of liberty The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.

The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.

Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton

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