Culturally, what’s lost are the best things in the world - because without objectivity, we can’t tell the best from the second, or the 75th best.
Politically, what’s lost is democracy. The logical terminus of “thinking it makes it so” politics is fascism. 3/3
11.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 48 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
But in public life we’re losing respect for objectivity in the humanities - and even the sense of why it matters. In the process we risk losing a lot culturally, and everything politically.
2/3
11.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 42 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Objectivity - in ethics and in art - is one of the central values of Western civilisation.
The liberatory spirit of “no right answers” postmodernism is also part of our culture. It has its place.
1/3
11.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 53 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
ISW: Russia is entering "phase 0" of war with NATO
youtu.be/KppbLCpZmZg?...
10.10.2025 20:20 — 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Trying to cancel fascist politicians empowers them. It’s like closing your eyes in a game of hide and seek and pretending the world stops when you do. 2/2
10.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 54 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
You can call political leaders fascist if you do it responsibly. But understand that fascism isn’t a fringe pathology. It’s one of the central ideologies in our culture.
You can’t declare fascists beyond the pale and move on. You have to confront them and defeat them politically.
1/2
10.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 68 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler ME Diary
What “Unsafety” Feels Like in ME and Long Covid
A short video on unsafety in chronic illness on the Vlads ME Diary channel - youtu.be/_6KSh9AKA-o?...
09.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Russia’s Political System Props Up a Fading Putin
youtu.be/-OZn1oFtLqI?...
08.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 78 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Mobilisation Rumours Explode Across Z Telegram
youtu.be/J3UI6qTXnm4?...
06.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 38 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
We often assume the deal between the Russian state and its contract soldiers is not ideological. But what could be more ideological than believing the state owes you nothing, you owe the state nothing, and everything - including your life - can be reduced to a business transaction?
06.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 75 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 1
Inside My Illness: ME & Long Covid Q&A
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Health allowing, I’ll go live later - from a more horizontal position than usual.
I’ll take any Qs about my illness - ME, Long Covid - and how it shapes my work and limits.
You can also bring Qs about your chronic illness journey. We’ll explore together.
www.youtube.com/live/dQuJPpH...
05.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 62 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Putin: I Definitely Won’t Attack NATO
youtu.be/FOb1zUWTDe8?...
04.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 66 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 1
Health update! Covid on top of ME and Long Covid. Day 5 has been the worst yet, with an episode similar to one that sent me spiralling in hospital 5 months ago. Didn’t get monoclonals as impossible to travel by ambulance. Didn’t take anti virals because of drug interaction, reactivity & rebound risk
03.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 120 🔁 9 💬 14 📌 0
What we are losing in politics is ethical adequacy. Political decisions can’t ever be just an application of ethics to politics - politics is too much a craft of the necessary and the possible for that. But it’s a disaster when ethical considerations simply fall by the wayside.
03.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 88 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Health update! Covid on top of ME & Long Covid. Day 4 has been the hardest yet. I wasn’t well enough to get to the monoclonal antibodies infusion we’d fought so hard for - not even with an ambulance.
If you’re freaking out politically, I got you and watch this space for my return to the channels 💛
02.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 89 🔁 5 💬 9 📌 0
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler ME Diary
Health update from Vlad
youtu.be/irUag3OpJm4?...
30.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 66 🔁 5 💬 12 📌 1
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Ex-Reform UK Politician Guilty of Russia Bribes
youtu.be/VjZEhE9MvAc?...
27.09.2025 22:21 — 👍 68 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler ME Diary
Health Update - I can't walk or stand
youtu.be/qEoOQ_0ziOE?...
26.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 72 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Historical probabilities are ludicrous, but they offer psychological clues.
The US is heading for democratic collapse in the 2030s. Odds: 50–70%. The key variable is whether a pro-institutional but anti-technocratic/neoliberal project will rise to counter authoritarian populism.
24.09.2025 19:39 — 👍 105 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 2
You probably caught them already, but the two major elements of my view are in two separate videos on the main channel Vlad Vexler, not Chat - one on why Trump submits to Putin (narcissism) and one on Trump not being a Russian asset (ideological common ground between them)
24.09.2025 18:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Internet goes nuts as Trump "flips" on Ukraine
youtu.be/f_t2n68aCY4?...
24.09.2025 00:41 — 👍 47 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Trump's most humiliating press conference ever? (RFK's fake "autism announcement")
youtu.be/5TMf5qXnth4?...
23.09.2025 19:47 — 👍 53 🔁 6 💬 11 📌 1
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Did Stephen Miller Just Give a Fascist Speech?
youtu.be/v-5o7jl4Hm0?...
22.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 51 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 1
Was Stephen Miller’s speech fascist?
Stephen Miller's psychotic speech at Charlie Kirk memorial
Was Stephen Miller’s speech fascist? Let's rate it on my ideological intensity scale for fascism.
open.substack.com/pub/vladvexl...
22.09.2025 06:34 — 👍 89 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 1
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
The Russians are chipping away at Article 5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=anKr...
20.09.2025 19:45 — 👍 65 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3
"The Coming Age of American Putinism".
Putinism and Trumpism share ideological DNA. They are two versions of the same global ideology - a kind of consumerist monarchism that makes might into right.
🎥Watch now on the main YouTube channel
18.09.2025 17:17 — 👍 244 🔁 96 💬 8 📌 8
Hi dear you! I’m bad - month in hospital in April May and haven’t been able to stand for a second in last 5 months. Post Covid damage. How are you faring?
18.09.2025 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
That mix is now spreading across the West. It is the ideology of the ex-conservative populist right.
Despite structural Russia-USA conflict,
Trump and Putin are ideological allies.
A main channel video is coming on this 6pm Thursday 18th September.
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17.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 91 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
We need to snap out of the idea that Russian interference is the main threat.
Our democracies are going Putinist organically.
If we strip away the mysticism of the Putin regime, we get a mix of monarchism, neoliberalism, and fascism.
1/2
17.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 199 🔁 52 💬 9 📌 1
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
Why Trump Can’t Escape Epstein Explained
youtu.be/jWzitfzx1m4?...
16.09.2025 20:05 — 👍 62 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
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Wolfson College
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This Invisible Illness: my first long form documentary photography project, about ME/CFS a complex & challenging health condition - like Long Covid.
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Former cult member turned academic researcher, writer, YouTuber and podcaster.
Three most important words ever: I don't know.
My most important life lesson: It's chaos; be kind.
Professor @SUpolisci and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University. New book: Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction. http://amzn.to/3gdhiFe
Political junkie & policy wonk. Research director at Massachusetts House of Representatives. Writing about Russia's war narratives & memory politics. PhD from Uni of Exeter
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Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
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Senior Fellow in Public Health and Journalism, Center for Global Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. I blog at Virology Blog (virology.ws). My academic position is largely funded by donations from patients. davetuller@berkeley.edu
I teach and write about general jurisprudence, legal and political realism, metaethics, free speech, religious toleration, academic freedom, Nietzsche, Marx and other topics at the University of Chicago. Homepage: https://brianleiter.net/
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