4 short articles on stuff that interests me – the far right, social media, political beliefs – that I read and would like to share b/c they are worth your time
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Sure, here is a joke about Max Weber:Why did Max Weber become a sociologist?Because he was interested in the sociology of bureaucracy.I hope you found it funny! As a coda to a grey and mildly depressing Sunday, I checked in with Bard to see if it was any better than half a year ago. The…
Twitter may be burning, but I’m not leaving yet (as I have said a thousand times before). Still, it is good to have alternatives, and so I set up an account on Mastodon back in November ’22 when we all felt the evil presence of You-Know-Who. But much as I like the ideas behind Mastodon…
Eigentlich müsste die Frage lauten: Sollte die Politik ein AfD-Verbot anstreben? Darüber hat Dietmar Neuerer mit Matthias Quent, einigen Staatsrechtlern und mir gesprochen. Das Ergebnis ist recht spannend. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/rechtspopulistische-partei-die-afd-verbieten-das-sind-die-wichtigsten-antworten/29502740.html
I do remember PowerPoint arriving at the computing centre on a designated PC that was reserved for 'desktop publishing', as it was called then. This machine was considered ridiculously powerful by the standards of the time. It was probably equipped with a (gasp!) 386 processor.
When even so-so- journals reject promising manuscripts if even one reviewer doesn’t like them, the system is broken. That’s the long and the short of it.
Mit Jürgen Lang von BR24 habe ich über die Perspektiven der neuen Partei gesprochen, die Sahra Wagenknecht gründen möchte. Einige Passagen unseres Gesprächs haben es in diesen Artikel geschafft. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/wagenknecht-mischt-sie-jetzt-das-parteiensystem-auf,TtDtlbe
There is a lot of interest in the Political Geography of the Radical Right. We identify 4 different aspects of ‘place’ and show how they relate to far-right attitudes throughout Germany. Watch the video, or read the free article.
Back in August, I had a chat with a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. She was working on an article about the resurgence of the far right in Germany. This sound bite, together with some content, made it into the final manuscript.