Watching Arsenal play PSG at a bar in Almaty with Super Bowl stylings and Kazakh play by play is a bit weird.
Thank you to @hanyangsydney.bsky.social in Sydney for a lively conversation about--among other things--why I find John Mearsheimer's position intellectually weak and morally bankrupt.
Устали от деда
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...
If only this could have been foreseen www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/u...
There’s hope!
ironies, all the way down: “The band Milli Vanilli was also announced as a performer, though one of its singers, Jodie Rocco, said on Thursday that the group had not been asked to appear.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...
Voilà, in which I exhort fellow scholars to use the term "decolonization" with precision.
"Persistent Problems with 'Decolonization': Reflections on the Central Asian Example"
@poppublicsphere.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Decolonization is not happening here. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
“Russia’s president, who has become a superlative authoritarian over time, has shown himself to be a mediocre head of state, a poor caretaker of the Russian economy and the agent of a regional disorder that is boomeranging back into Russia.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/o...
