Marci Shore

"Putin is in the real estate business in Ukraine the same way Hitler was in the real estate business in Poland. . . In that kind of situation, having a bunch of 'real estate deal guys' as America’s negotiators is a liability, not an advantage."--Thomas Friedman

OTD in 2009 Russia reaffirmed commitment to the Budapest Memorandum signed 15 years previously.

Which is why you can trust us on the "peace deal" now proposed.

All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation.
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YouTube video by knihovnavaclavahavla Marci Shore: "There is a joke in Yale that you can't graduate without reading Power of powerless."

Marci Shore over de betekenis van Václav Havel voor haar geestelijke ontwikkeling en haar werk als filosoof en historicus (ideeëngeschiedenis). De interviewer is Milan Babík, directeur van de Václav Havel-bibliotheek in Praag (1 okt 2024).
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I was honored to meet and moved to listen to Ali Abu Awaad, former political prisoner and Palestinian peace activist. He's been through hell and hasn't lost hope--so neither should we.
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"We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration."--Holly Case on Iryna Vushko's Lost Fatherland

Our Legacy Speech to the Westend Synagogue in Frankfurt on Nov. 9, 2025 to commemorate Reichspogromnacht (Kristallnacht).

"Our religion has long had two traditions, the particular and the universal."--Jason Stanley

We are happy to announce the inaugural panel of our new event series on December 15, featuring Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marci Shore, Tamara Hundorova, and Vitaly Chernetsky, moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva. www.eventbrite.com/e/postcoloni...

"So, regarding these leaks. They could be fake, could be genuinely overheard conversations [...]"

This is typical of Russian propaganda: "It could be this, it could be that, who knows?" the goal of which is epistemological uncertainty and eventually, nihilism.

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

Un plan de paix sur l’Ukraine qui n’en est pas un. Excellente idée de chercher quelques lumières auprès de spécialistes universitaires américains ayant traversé la frontière pour réfléchir plus librement. C’est le cas de Marci Shore (voir essai à lire ci-joint ). plus.lapresse.ca/screens/f4da...

Is There Any Chance For A Peace Deal in Ukraine? <p>Donald Trump puts forward a peace deal for Ukraine, a deal pretty well everyone rejects except Russia. But is this just the first step in a real attempt to find a way to end the war in Ukraine? Dr ...

"Capping the size of the Ukrainian military--that's like saying to the wolf that's at the door, 'We're opening the door for you.'"
--Janice Stein

Plan de paix pour l’Ukraine | Le pire des sapins russo-américains Cinq semaines avant l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie, la journaliste russe Elena Chernenko s’était moquée des demandes que Vladimir Poutine avait adressées à l’Ukraine et à l’OTAN.

"Shore peut à peine croire que le plan trumpien permettrait à la Russie de garder le contrôle d’une partie de la population ukrainienne. 'Comme si, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on avait permis à l’Allemagne de continuer à occuper des parties de l’Europe, d’y faire régner la terreur.'"

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

"The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. . .Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."-- @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day. In a world where moral intuition often seems to have been lost, this is a good occasion to remind ourselves that starving people to death is evil.

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YouTube video by KyivOfMine Kyiv of Mine : Chapter 3 – Holding onto the summer

"Russia wanted to make sure that we freeze, so a lot of Ukrainians stayed home and tried to stay warm by any means, and so by intensively staying warm during such difficult times it actually gave a formula how you can have more Ukrainians." For those who want a little pick-me-up today 😊

An invitation for those in Montreal this Wednesday:

Nadezhda, or Hope For millions of children in Ukraine, many of whom have been displaced, war has brought trauma that will shape the rest of their lives. Yet children also surprise and encourage adults with imaginative ...

I find it chilling that lonely adolescents are being drawn into relationships with AI chatbots who fool children into thinking they care about them. It's a dystopian nightmare. An obvious better answer to loneliness is a pet, an actual sentient creature who can return love.

(S+) Meinung: Aufregung um Rede in Frankfurt: Was bleibt vom Eklat in der Synagoge? Hinter dem Eklat um den Auftritt von Jason Stanley in einer Frankfurter Synagoge verbirgt sich ein ungelöster Konflikt: zwischen liberalem und orthodoxem Judentum.

"In dem prächtigen Gotteshaus überlappen sich nämlich die zwei jüdischen Frankfurts, und an diesem Abend sind sie miteinander in Konflikt geraten."--Eugen El

"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" is already in Georgian bookstores:
www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...

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Thank you—this is indeed a good “back to Kant” moment for all of us.

YouTube video by Silicon Curtain America is Down - But is it Out? Authoritarian Slide is Accelerating

America is down, but is it out? Normalization of politics in abnormal times has unsettling historical parallels. Ukraine resists tyranny, but in the US there's a drift away from rule of law to "impunity, humiliation, and political violence." @marcishore.bsky.social - youtu.be/28KnYrBIHuE

Streit um Gedenken zum 9. November: „Leute im Publikum haben mich angeschrien“ Der US-Philosoph Jason Stanley sollte in der Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt eine Rede halten. Sie wurde abgebrochen. Stanely ist schockiert.

"Meine Familie wurde aus Deutschland vertrieben. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass die Jüdische Gemeinde mich am Sonntagabend herausgeworfen hat. . . Die Reaktion der Jüdischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt ist ein Verrat an der liberalen, deutsch-jüdischen Tradition."--Jason Stanley

Italian Senator Carlo Calenda left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and someone who repeats Russian propaganda narratives.

I believe this is exactly how public accountability should work - when a liar is called a liar.

Senator Calenda and Ukraine 🇺🇦

Thanks for support!

For friends in and around Nova Gorica tomorrow:

All credit here goes to the Ukrainian protagonists of this book:

"[A]s Jews from all walks of life and across the world. . . We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust. Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel."