Lara Montesinos Coleman

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Congrats to @laramonteco.bsky.social!

A little piece I wrote for the ISRF on Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights

Thanks Patricia!

Two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University have filed a lawsuit seeking a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of two presidential orders that threaten to deport or jail those advocating for Palestinian rights.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gl

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

As universities engage in more "death spiral" cuts to academia, we need to focus on the intense bureaucratisation of the C21 university.

A wannabe D-VC implements travel management outsourcing, and massive costs ensue. They've moved on before the disaster unfolds:

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"Democracy in America did not begin with a victory in court—and will require far more than one to save it."

Don't miss the great Niko Bowie on the promise and perils of fighting Trump and Musk in federal courts.

Trump administration launches portal for reporting DEI in public schools Website arrives before government’s two-week ultimatum to schools and universities to dismantle program

It’s no Trump Party like a Moms 4 Liberty 4 Trump party.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thanks Lisa!

Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin

I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides.
International law is a discipline in crisis.
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Could you add me please - Prof. at Sussex Uni IR, just joined bluesky. Thank you!

Israel's West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation by Rabia Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) - As its armed forces intensify their assault on the northern West Bank, concerns are mounting over Israel’s broader objectives: further territorial expansion, for...

“In terms of annexation, in the long term, what is really being placed on the agenda — specifically through Trump — is this notion of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians and driving them from the land of Palestine.” Abdaljawad Omar www.juancole.com/2025/02/isra...

Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...

Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

Looks like an interesting addition to conversations some of us have been having over the past couple of years as part of the @isrfoundation.bsky.social study group on political affect with @carolynpedwell.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social and others

Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."

The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.

My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review.

Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad.

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There is no hurry guys, we are only boiling alive

Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people.

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📣The Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) is now on Bluesky. Please give it a follow here for all things #IR Theory @sussexcait.bsky.social and repost. Thank you!

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Nakba Denial — Parapraxis On the politics of history and genocide Esmat Elhalaby

A carefully nuanced essay. Do read & share widely.

The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology.
- Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social)
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I'm not going to be striking over pay - totally misguided venture, and even the ballot serves to sew confusion and discord

It will be crucial to se where this goes...

At the @isrfoundation.bsky.social conference in Warsaw in October we watched Agnieszka Holland's incredible film, Green Border, and learnt about the extent of the horrors ongoing at the Poland-Belarus border. Here is journalist Joanna Klimowitz's important report for the ISRF:

Ooh, this looks great. @benrogaly.bsky.social @profalexp.bsky.social you might be interested

The Crisis of Democracy Is Here And it’s going to get a lot worse.

Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty.

Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy.

www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

Looks like a really interesting event with my colleague @davidbrenner.bsky.social