Honored that my essay in The Jerusalem Post is now published.
I wrote it at a moment when silence was no longer an option. This is not only about Israel, but about the values that hold our civilization together: life, truth, and moral courage.
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Progressives' bitter unanswered question
A large part of European academia has replaced scientific inquiry with moral theater. My new essay explores how virtue has eclipsed reason, and what it means to defend integrity when empathy itself becomes heresy.
Delighted to see our new paper with Nuno Garoupa on revolutions, structural breaks and the long-term economic and institutional consequences of the 1979 Iranian Revolution published in Constitutional Political Economy.
This paper examines whether major political institutional disruptions produce temporary shocks or structural breaks in long-term development. Using the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a natural experiment,...
I stood in Tel Aviv on the eve of war and returned to a Europe unable to speak. What I found was not debate, but the quiet collapse of courage.
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If your outrage depends on who's holding the gun rather than who's under it, you're not practicing human rights. You are involved in politics while claiming to support human rights.
Yugoslav socialism ≠ Soviet socialism.
After breaking with Stalin in 1948, Yugoslavia built its unique workers’ self-management and produced world-class thinkers
It collapsed because its political architecture failed, not because its institutional experiment lacked originality.
History matters.
Rok Spruk
The Persistence of Misconception about Yugoslav Socialism
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Europe’s moral inversion on Iran is frightening but reveals much about Europe’s selective silence.
It is happening because it doesn’t fit opressor vs oppressed binary narrative.
I’m deeply astonished to see how low segments of Italian youth have sunk in espousing antisemitism. This isn’t just ignorance or protest run amok. It’s a moral collapse. We must call it out: hatred has no place in civil society, and silence is complicity
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The new bigotry hides behind the language of inclusion. I wrote about how woke conformism corrodes academic freedom and integrity, and what must be done to rebuild them.
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Rok Spruk
If my classmates knew what it was like to grow up under a radical Islamic regime, they would understand why I can't join them in a pro-Hamas demonstration
The reason for the disproportionate attention is simply a matter of utility: activism for the Gaza war advances political objectives; activism for the Sudan conflict does not.
We examine the contribution of institutional integration to a country’s institutional capacity. To this end, we examine the effects of remaining outside of the European integration process for 28 Ukra...
