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Juliet Johnson

@excubs.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Money, trust, memory politics, central banks, and financial nationalism.

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Prof. Benjamin Forest @benjaminforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hot off the press! A new, open access article in Political Geography, "What's in a name?" written with a former student (Lily Martin) and @excubs.bsky.social (Juliet Johnson) about removing "Providence Plantations" from Rhode Island's official name in 2020. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) @cipss-mcgill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It has been a pleasure hosting Dr. Ho-fung Hung together with the Centre for Global Chinese Studies (CGCS) on Friday. How has the US dollar kept its dominance in the world economy? The analysis draws from Dr. Ho-fung Hung's upcoming book, Greenback Empire (to be published in October 2026).
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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A timely essay in light of this week's turmoil on global bond markets: New by Professor (and Acting Chair) of Political Science @excubs.bsky.social , and coauthor Alison Johnston: "Domestic Bond Investors Can be a Powerful Constraint on Far-Right Populists" www.promarket.org/2026/09/03/d... 1/2
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Domestic Bond Investors Can be a Powerful Constraint on Far-Right Populists - ProMarket
The rise of the far right has been a defining feature of political systems in developed democracies over the past two decades. In recent research, Alison Johnston and Juliet Johnson demonstrate that d...
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Alexandra Jabbour @alexjabbour.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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OPPORTUNITIES - University of Warwick
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy. Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New article from RGCS PhD student Samantha Puzzi (Political Science), in Memory Studies "Monumental Empowerment: The vandalism of public mnemonic objects" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Monumental Empowerment: The vandalism of public mnemonic objects"

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This article develops a novel approach for defending the vandalism of ‘tainted’ monuments by appealing to democratic process. Through the framework of symbolic power, and with a focus on deliberative processes of ‘collective authorization’, the article makes three central claims. First, I argue that public mnemonic objects that are improperly authorized result in the symbolic powerlessness of those excluded. Second, I argue that this powerlessness survives when collectives fail to re-authorize their mnemonic objects. As such, I redefine ‘tainted’ commemorations with reference to procedure and not merely problematic content. Third, I defend the vandalism of tainted commemorations as assertions of symbolic empowerment, or full participation in symbolic design, for groups facing historical and ongoing marginalization. Together, these arguments explore how the failure of narrow and/or top-down processes of monument authorization and their objectification in the memory landscape redirect unfulfilled democratic participation to the physical, built realm.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17506980261447403
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you are having a hard day just remember there are dogs
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As we watch SCOTUS destroy civil rights legislation, today's bank note features a portrait of John McLean (on the left) who as Supreme Court Justice (1829-1861) was the only dissenter in Prigg v. Pennsylvania and one of two in Dred Scott v. Sandford. State Bank of Ohio, Marietta, $10, 18--. 🗄️
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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
IR: liberal international disorder, hegemonic decline, apolarity, etc IPE:
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Putin signed a decree today renaming the FSB Academy in honor of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the creator of the Cheka, responsible for political terror after the 1917 revolution and a predecessor of the KGB & FSB. The decree hails Dzerzhinsky's "outstanding contribution to state security."
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Академии Федеральной службы безопасности присвоено почётное наименование «имени Ф.Э.Дзержинского»
Владимир Путин подписал Указ «О присвоении федеральному государственному казенному образовательному учреждению высшего образования «Академия Федеральной службы безопасности Российской Федерации» почет...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 22/04/2026
After months of work, the FT's new finance history podcast is now finally live! 🥳 The first two episodes — hosted by Gillian Tett and yours truly — are on Mesopotamian debt and genius investors of yore. Pods on railway bonds, the Nixon Shock and the stones of Yap coming. www.ft.com/tsom?syn-25a...
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Introducing: The Story of Money
A new video podcast from The FT exploring the history of finance
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Yes, all the policies are awful, but this entire article is full of the same litany of sweeping, hyperventilating claims about the End of All Things in regard to 🇺🇸 debt, the dollar, & our ability to borrow that we've read every 6 months or so for the last 20 years. Meanwhile, back in reality:
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
ECRs in IPE, who are applying to the Political Economy Beyond Boundaries (PEBB) section of the @europeanisa.bsky.social for the PEC in Lisbon, September 1-4, 2026, may also be considered for the two RIPE-sponsored panels. See the call below for details.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Not that I'd ever defend Noem, Bondi, or Gabbard, but it is striking that only the women in the administration are under fire and it's not because Hegseth, RFK, Bessent, Burgum, Lutnick, etc are paragons of anything except stupid malice.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 28/03/2026
Right here. Right now.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!
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Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians
SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …
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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
IR faculty with sabbaticals next year - McGill has a one-semester (Fall 2026 or Winter 2027) visiting professorship. It pays $21,000 CAD and entails teaching a small graduate course and hanging out with us. DEADLINE IS MARCH 27. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree....
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Visiting Professor, International Relations
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free: Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy," www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 20/02/2026
Hard to overstate how certain we can be that this is, in fact, going to end badly. @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on the gutting of the SEC. www.ft.com/content/b5d9...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Really excellent piece from @rajakorman.bsky.social, highlighting that the core barrier to the RMB rivaling the euro & the dollar as a major global reserve currency is that China's domestic financial markets are not remotely developed or globally integrated to the point that this is feasible.
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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny with *all* the American flags!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/02/2026
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…
What do you say to those who claim you’re not American?

I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.
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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Fantastic nerd-forward analysis plus slightly unhinged Super Bowl commentary.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
in which ... I summarise me and @himself.bsky.social 's paper for the @britishacademy.bsky.social on the global dollar system, suggesting that it explains the fascination with the digital Euro (a set of EU payment rails that's independent of the US and can't be acquired). www.ft.com/content/5b9a...
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The juice, the squeeze and the digital euro
Finally, a question for the answer to a question nobody asked
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/02/2026
As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you! whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
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Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a …
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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. consumerfinancialbureau.gov Action taken by the nan (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) at or around 2026-01-29 06:23:52.
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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Love the Financial Times - we see your cute K-Pop Demon Hunters Golden reference.
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Short of getting caught orchestrating a coup or assassination, this is absolutely the core case of what you expel an ambassador for.
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"I should say so," O'Brien said. "For a moment there, I suspected you of the thoughtcrime of believing that Donald J.
Trump, the president of the United States, would be willing to torch the country's credibility, set fire to its alliances, and tank the entire economy to acquire some territory in the North Atlantic whose name he could not even remember."
The member of Congress sighed. "No,
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said. "No, you're right. We'd better do Iceland too. In case." He shut his eyes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19/01/2026
BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.
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AP Source: Fed Chair Powell to attend Supreme Court argument on Cook case
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
As everyone could have predicted, it was an absolutely terrible idea to put Angel Hernandez on the Supreme Court
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sometimes they just tell us they are weaponizing the criminal justice system to push their political agenda.
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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Montrealers, come to our CIPSS talks this term!
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
well, I think JD Vance has settled the question of 'is this imperialism'?
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“Investigations reporter Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University. After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.”
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History. It is now open access! online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Because you asked for it (you ask for it every year). These are the most scathing book reviews of 2025.
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
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