Jeffrey Kopstein

Iza Ding · Studying is harmful: China sits the Gaokao In a country plagued by corruption, China’s national college entrance exam, the gaokao, is remarkably clean. ‘Open...

‘China’s gaokao factories and America’s college-industrial complex are not accidents. They are the logical outcome of a global system that has mistaken education for investment and human life for capital.’

@izading.bsky.social on China’s university entrance exam.

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America Is Now a Family Business Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.

America Is Now a Family Business
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America Is Now a Family Business Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.

Can Trump be stopped? Thoughts on one year of America as a family business

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Shout-out to Trump as a patrimonial ruler in today's FT.

Defining Donald Trump The US leader is often called a fascist but he represents a different kind of political authoritarianism

Another shout-out to your book, @jeffkopstein.bsky.social, this time in FT

You underestimate how vital national interests can be reverse engineered by the fertile theoretical imagination.

US measles outbreak tops 2,000 known infections

The U.S. has surpassed 2000 documented measles cases this year, the highest in more than 30 years.

This is driven by rampant disinformation about vaccines from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including in his capacity as a government official.

We will lose our elimination status shortly.

I like the think of those letter as having been put up on Velcro.

He landed in red square and said "if a German in a frickin' Cessna can do it, so can I."

Skocpol on The Assault on the State

Did you see the new yorker piece on relocating to the netherlands?

At my age it's publish AND perish 🤣

We all need to slow down. Not work less (at this point, i'm powerless to do so), but much more deliberately. The incentive structures don't help (the "tyranny of metrics" as Jerry Mueller calls it) but AI has taken "productivity" to its logical and absurd conclusion.

It's about time

The Best of Books 2025 The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.

In time for Hanukah/Christmas, Foreign Affairs includes "The Assault on the State," a book I wrote with Steve Hanson, on its list of best books of 2025.
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These are the kinds of updates I need.

The grant money?

A very sensitive reading of "The Assault on the State."

We feel it in our bones... "with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading ultimately to the demise of democracy itself."

But there's the issue of students with accommodations.

Theres no bowing. There's also no more papers. Just in class assignments. Once you've solved the problem of me grading dozens of chatgpt papers (which i refuse to do), let me know. Then we can go back to education. Until then its blue books and essay. I also want to do communist style oral exams!

Can't one of the methods convert? for the sake of the parents.

You and your bourgeois arithmetic. Wrecker

Intimate Violence by Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg | Paperback | Cornell University Press Winner of the Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesWhy do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave...

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Cornell University Press will soon release a well-priced paperback version of "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust," a book I wrote with Jason Wittenberg. Unfortunately, it still speaks to important questions of our day. (link in first comment)

My sense is it's an over used word, bordering on an empty signifier at this point.

Looking forward to this.

Multi-university study maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma

Multi-university study including @ucirvine.bsky.social professor @jeffkopstein.bsky.social maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma | Findings in @plosone.org highlight hidden ways hate speech spreads

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@www.bsky.social "Does Military Service Make Individuals Susceptible to Political Violence? Attitudinal and Behavioral Evidence" osf.io/preprints/so...

The Assault on the State