An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy

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An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy (podcastaddict.com)

I am normally rather sceptical of historical explanations for far-right mobilisation and counter-mobilisation, but this podcast episode from The Conversation is very nuanced and quite convincing: 24 minutes of your time well spent.     https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86c1fdc7-dc5c-44b5-a86c-72eed7fb3190.mp3

Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie

Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 3

Mit Lawrence Meinig habe ich für den Forschungspodcast der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität über wehrhafte Demokratie, Rechtsextremismus, Islamismus und die Polizei gesprochen. Die Episode kann man sich direkt hier anhören oder unten im Transkript nachlesen EinleitungRechtsextremismus, Rechtsradikalismus, RechtspopulismusRegionale UnterschiedePolizeiforschungAndere Gefahren für die Demokratie: Linksextremismus, Islamismus, Reichsbürgerbewegung Einleitung Lawrence Meinig Demokratie bedeutet Vielfalt, Offenheit und auch Meinungsverschiedenheit. Doch…

Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of “purity”: four links I liked

Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of

Karmvir Padda is a sociologist at the University of Waterloo. For her PhD research, she has analysed numerous manifestos written by men who perpetrated violent attacks motivated by their political or religious views. A large chunk of them rationalise violence that is explicitly directed against women. https://theconversation.com/i-analyzed-more-than-100-extremist-manifestos-misogyny-was-the-common-thread-259347 Back in 2022, two colleagues published a research…

Interview with Kathimerini on Merkel’s legacy

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Believe it or not, today, Angela Merkel is travelling to Athens again, and this time, she will be discussing …. her autobiography, which has been translated into Greek. Over at Kathimerini (organising the event), Xenia Kounalaki kindly asked for my opinion on various matters connected in one way or another to Merkel’s tenure. We had…

nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata

nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 7

The delta method approximates the expectation of some function of a random variable by relying on a (truncated) Taylor series expansion. In plain words, that means that one can use the delta method to calculate confidence intervals and perform hypothesis tests on just about every linear or nonlinear transformation of a vector of parameter estimates. Stata’s procedure nlcom is a particularly versatile and powerful implementation of the delta method. If you can write down the formula of the transformation, nlcom will spit out the result. And that means that you can abuse Stata’s built in procedures to implement your own estimators.

ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata

ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata 8

Stata’s margins command can be a bit confusing Stata’s margins is a postestimation command which does all sorts of amazing things. Margins is incredibly powerful, and the accompanying marginsplot command nearly always does just the right thing. Margins and marginsplot have almost singlehandedly changed the way people interpret the way model estimates (particularly estimates from…

More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked

More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked 11

I read this the way it was intended: with gory fascination. It’s almost as if capitalism was part of the problem. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/25/nick-wanted-to-drop-bodyfat-and-build-his-own-micro-harem-of-women-how-my-friend-fell-for-the-red-pill-hucksters-of-the-manosphere Interesting that there is now a book about this. Even more interesting that this should be the only book. Blaming America’s religious beginnings for America ‘s weirdness has been a reasonably popular folk…