Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
John Heathershaw
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Things look grim. But hope can be found in exposing and confronting this mess.
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2 days left in the Yale UP sale with 50% off books including Dictators Without Borders! Just £7. This pbk edition has an epilogue on Trump (written in 2018). Maybe even we are surprised at the extent to which Trump has adopted kleptocratic & authoritarian practices.
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John Heathershaw
John Heathershaw
Comparing the 1st and 3rd gulf wars is comparing the strategic to the moronic.
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“The task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round.”
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The terrible occasion of another war in the Middle East occuring over Holy Week might cause us to reflect on that war’s utter pointlessness.
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Really enjoyed reading and writing up some thoughts on @lkatfield.bsky.social excellent book Furious Minds. She brilliantly demonstrates the perils of ideas-first determinism. I was especially interested in how the Christian Right has been corrupted.
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@kevinhargaden.bsky.social "What we find in all of these interactions is not a surplus of religiosity but its deficit. Trump’s depiction of himself with a transfigured glow bringing about miraculous healing rightfully strikes people as egotistical, not faithful." 👍
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I wrote about Trump’s “empty words” and the reckoning that American evangelicals who have supported him face as his emptiness is unveiled.
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A book on the MAGA New Right demonstrates the pitfalls of ideas-first political thinking and how conservative Christian intellectuals have been corrupted by fantasies of power.
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Conducting Research on Illicit Finances & Professional Enablers
Date: 16 June 2026
Venue: Public Library, Maqsut Narikbayev University, Astana
With @tenaprelec.bsky.social
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John Heathershaw
Speaking to the University of Exeter Grand Challenges on 1 June 2026, I try to find hope in the exposure of and response to some of the darkest stories of global politics.
A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West...
The Far Right feeds on fear. In a guest post, Carolyn Whitnall shows how it also relies on the power of "positive thinking". True hope begins in everyday acts of lament and compassion.
“The Pope is weak on crime.” At first glance, one struggles to make sense of it. How can it be that this is something that the American President has said – published, indeed – in an attack on Leo XIV...
It is not the immorality or strategic incompetence of Trump that will bring him down but his emptiness. It is the Christian apocalyptic task to recognise and expose it.
Research Seminar: Conducting Research on Illicit Finances & Professional Enablers
This seminar will provide participants with insights into contemporary research on illicit financial flows, financial ...
