Ph.D. student @ceu : IR theory, historical IR, political thought. Interested in anti-modern thought, Woodrow Wilson, Rome in the politics. Research consultant.
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Joined July 2009
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I have a new article out in @RStatecraft:
"We do not need a war... against autocracy to decry what is happening in Ukraine. Far better to reform ourselves, adopt restraint in our rhetoric, and leave the task of setting the world on fire to others."
responsiblestatecraft.org/20…
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How are immigration and democracy related?
In this episode, @AdamMPontius, @erinjenne, and @LiliiaSablina, interview @_JustinGest about his new book "Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy" (2026). @ceu
Check it out here:👉open.spotify.com/episode/3WR…
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Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piečaitis turned Nora the piano-playing cat’s melody into a full orchestral performance… and she earned a standing ovation
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The Penguins are primed to do one of the most humiliating acts in all of sports to the Philadelphia Flyers.
The reverse sweep. #LetsGoPens
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Watch this episode of the Vienna Dialogues: Coffee and IR, hosted by @ceu_ir, with our researcher @erinjenne, @AdamMPontius, and CEU Rector Emeritus @M_Ignatieff!
📹👇
youtube.com/watch?v=F0xt4vms…
Tonight I'm remembering Melissa Hortman. She devoted her life to bettering politics by serving her community through civic life. That she was killed for her service makes us uglier as a people and dims whatever light is left in our city on the hill.
thecrimson.com/article/2025/…
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Rank choice voting is good because it defeats lesser of two evilism. Remember that the Dem establishment opposes it bc they want to be able to coerce you into voting for the federal version of Cuomo every four years.
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Here we go again…
@MikeBloomberg tries to buy his FOURTH NYC mayoral election, on behalf of billionaire-ally @andrewcuomo.
Don’t let him.
It’s your city, not his.
@AdrienneEAdams @bradlander @ZohranKMamdani politico.com/news/2025/06/13…
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a feature not a bug.
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My ode to the late Alasdair MacIntyre just posted on @The_Tablet. I explain how his philosophy remained age-defying & urgent, showing a possible path out of the "moral wilderness." But his insight came from a constant, often painful ability to change 🧵
thetablet.co.uk/features/vir…
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The following majors are showing significantly worse employment prospects than Philosophy, according to the New York Fed:
1. Computer Science
2. Business Management
3. Chemistry
4. Computer Engineering
5. Information Systems
6. Public Policy and Law
7. Physics
8. Economics
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Montaigne— here in On Pedantry translated by Donald Frame— would probably respond in terms like these to the use of Chat GPT by college students. It is not an education until you understand ideas well enough to make them your own:
I love @mikeduncan's podcasts. His book on the Roman republic is a significant part of the inspiration for my dissertation. If you think he can do what he does without academic research existing then you're an absolute idiot.
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Rubio is shutting down U.S. embassy operation in most of Africa, a continent that the Bush administration made a priority in GWOT (AFRICOM) and in development policy (AIDS).
How exactly is that in line what we'd expect from a "conventional Republican administration?"
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The rise of MAGA should inspire a massive paradigm shift in the study of U.S. political science towards more historical & cultural approaches. The reigning schools—institutionalism, behavioralism & rat'l choice—all failed to grasp the biggest event in US politics in a generation