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a great honour to meet and talk with Jeffrey Sachs, who tells our Chinese hosts: ‘ignore the United States’; ‘the belief that tariffs can be converted into tax cuts is delusional’; and (sarcastically) ‘Trump’s industrial policy will win the 20th century’… Boao Forum for Asia Columbia University

‘Beijing’s message to America: We’re not afraid of you. You aren’t who you think you are - and we aren’t who you think we are’, writes Thomas L.Friedman NYTimes Opinion Watch nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opi…

just arrived! the Arabic edition of 𝐓𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐀 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲: 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 sincere thanks to معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا Abdelwahab ElAffendi Oxford Academic

South Korea’s leading democracy thinker, Choi Jang-jip, says ‘dogmatic presidentialism’ and ‘fan-driven populism’ are ruining its system of self-government; massive institutional reforms and an end to ‘good vs evil’ thinking are needed The Korea JoongAng Daily joongang.co.kr/article/253084…

my thoughts on the decline of the American empire and the future of democracy johnkeane.substack.com/p/amerika

‘Weaponising “antisemitism” on university campuses to punish students and staff who express support for Palestinians has long been a goal of Zionist lobby groups’, writes Alex McKinnon in his report on conflicts and crackdowns University of Sydney everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/we-see-what-… via Alex McKinnon

so long as pro-Israel warriors spit talk of ‘antisemitism’, trample on academic freedoms and harass their critics by weaponising law, there will be active resistance - and victories big and small, as my colleague Nick Riemer and I have just shown here in Sydney…👇

Yes, as elsewhere: ‘Many Australian universities are now being run by managers with little or no significant academic standing or expertise, yet they still call themselves ‘Professors’. This misleading appropriation of the ‘Professor’ title…must stop.’ professoriate.org/2025/03/12/the…

this week’s ⁦Harvard University reports show clearly that ‘the one group on campus…that most consistently feels nervous about expressing its views and….physically unsafe on campus are Muslims. Not Jews’, writes Corey Robin ⁦The Intercept⁩ theintercept.com/2025/04/30/har…

my unorthodox account of MAGA and the demagoguery of Donald J. Trump as symptoms of US imperial decline is now available in Dutch De Groene Amsterdammer…facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

my essay on Trump’s demagoguery and MAGA as symptoms of the decline of the American global empire is also available in Arabic…معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا dohainstitute.org/ar/PoliticalSt…

….and Spanish, too, muchas gracias to Letras Libres Daniel Gascón Enrique Krauze letraslibres.com/magazine/?id_r…

استعادة عظمة أميركا: الصين، والانحدار الإمبراطوري، والديمقراطية dohainstitute.org/ar/PoliticalSt… via المركز العربي

vale José Mujica (1935 - 2025), Uruguay’s former president of humility, a ‘nothing’ (his word) who pushed for everything.…theconversation.com/the-president-…

absurdly priced but a labour of love published soon: my Sorbonne lectures on thinking, and why more thinking about democracy is vital for its global survival and future flourishing…

why old words can’t capture the monstrous barbarity of Israel’s crimes in Palestine: time to speak of the Destruction (al-Ibādah), writes Ghada Ageel aje.io/73jmpz

Master Wizard of Nonsense (Trump) asks: ‘Why are we wasting our time, money and souls..on crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us?’ Reply: don’t host ‘drag shows’, America’s military must ‘spread democracy to everybody around the world, at the point of a gun.’

‘we repudiate the attempt…to conflate Zionism, a political ideology with Jewish and non-Jewish adherents, with Jewish identity’: a brave and honest statement of support for Nick Riemer and me in our current legal battle against apologists of genocide overland.org.au/2025/05/statem…

published this week: my Sorbonne lectures on thinking, uncertainty, civil society, green politics and how democracies die, fast and slow…