'A statement on 23 February explained the Bloomsbury-based research institute will be “disbanded” at the end of July 2026 because it “in its current form is not sustainable”.'
Goodbye utopia, hello myopia?
Auch die schöne Besprechung von Anselm Meyer in den "sehepunkten" ist lesenswert (wie natürlich auch das Buch selbst): www.sehepunkte.de/2026/02/4049...
Ich habe schon in den Druckfahnen lesen können, da mit beteiligt, und bin insofern parteiisch. Ich hoffe, ich darf das Buch dennoch empfehlen: Spannende Quellen und anregende Interpretationen aus dem breiten Spektrum der #Gewaltgeschichte. Noch dazu Open Access. Großer Dank an alle Beteiligten!
Herzliche Einladung: Am Montag, 16. März 2026, werde ich mein neues Buch über den Fotografen Fred Stein in Dresden vorstellen. Beginn ist um 18 Uhr in der Gedenkstätte Münchner Platz, der Eintritt ist frei! Eine Kooperation des @hait-tud.bsky.social und der Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten:
Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership
Besten Dank & Gruesse zurück!
The Canadian newspaper "The Globe and Mail" asked me whether the actions being taken by #ICE in the United States today can be compared to those of Nazi #Brownshirts in the early 1930s. Here is my op-ed piece: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Vielen Dank. Ich freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit!
📢Es ist vollbracht! 💎
Die NPL erscheint ab sofort Diamond Open Access (DOA) unter
www.neue-politische-literatur.tu-darmstadt.de.
Die ersten Artikel für das neue Heft 1/2026 sind bereits online - natürlich kostenfrei zu lesen:
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Endlich erschienen - das Thema könnte aktueller nicht sein: Wie kann sich die Demokratie gegen ihre Feinde verteidigen? Ein Sammelband zu prodemokratischer Propaganda in der Weimarer Republik, hrsg. von Erik Koenen und Simon Sax.
www.steiner-verlag.de/Prodemokrati...
I believe this development is not only driven by the reasons discussed below but is also a consequence of the obsession that everything schools do must be measured, assessed and compared. Learning foreign languages is important in many ways, not only in terms of future employability and performance.
How to create a political martyr? Looking forward to my pub lecture and the discussion tomorrow, organised by @newcastleuni.bsky.social's History Society. Starting at 6.30pm in the Trent House.
This event was tremendously interesting. A mix of art meets Aufklärungsarbeit with cherished colleagues @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Thomas Weber among others bringing their research to bear on the danger of the AfD for Germany.
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Andreas Möller, Am Rande Berlins lebt die Intelligenz: Kleinmachnow, mein Großvater und die Reklame fürs Volk (Friedenhauer Presse / Matthes & Seitz, 2025; #skystorians) www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/am-rand...
Die Eigentumsfrage bei der #Weltbühne war seit den 1930er Jahren immer kompliziert. Kurt R. Grossmann merkte 1951 im New Yorker "Aufbau" Folgendes an. Mehr zu den Eigentumsverhältnissen bei den "Weltbühnen" zwischen den 1930er und 1990er Jahren gibt es hier: www.aufbau-verlage.de/aufbau/hinte...
Based on years of detailed research on Krauss, yet crisp, fresh and often to the point. Highly recommended! Published by Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna (in German). 2/2
The new book by @kathiprager.bsky.social 'A Game as Mindless as Love: The Life of Satirist Karl Kraus' is magnificent, especially for former Berliners like me who have always struggled to understand the coexistence of reactionary and progressive elements in Vienna around 1900. 1/2
Eight years later. Daphne Caruana Galizia's voice lives on.
My good friend Gautam Pemmaraju has written an exciting article about "‘Entangled Agents’: Women, Espionage and Empire from 1920 to 1945" (open access) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2JHPH...
Residents of #Newcastle of all ages sent a clear message today against all those who incite hatred.
Some major personal news:
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
On why I left academia, why I left America, and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:
Onward. Forward. Steady:
My review of Andreas Molitor's new biography of Hermann #Göring was published today in the #FAZ. More topical than I initially thought: www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
I spoke with "Forward" about why comparions between the murder of Charlie Kirk and the Nazi "martyr" Horst Wessel are problematic in several respects:
forward.com/news/768607/...
International students are a key driver of the export sector in Exeter and Leicester Universities as a share of export gross value added Exeter Leicester Newcastle York Nottingham Cardiff Sheffield Coventry Brighton Leeds Respective percentages 15.3% 14% 9% 8.4% 8.4% 7.6% 6.9% 6.9% 5.8% 5.7% Source: Centre for Cities • Data for top 10 cities/towns in England by share of GVA
What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education
