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Jeffrey Kopstein

@jeffkopstein.bsky.social
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Historian, social scientist, low talent fitness fanatic. Dean's Professor of Political Science. UCI Recent book: *The Assault on the State* www.amazon.com/Assault-State-Global…

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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What Philo of Alexandria learned in his encounter with Caligula (and what Mark Carney already knew) my latest scribbling. www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-tal...
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How To Talk to a Tyrant
Why Mark Carney knew what an ancient philosopher did not.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My thoughts on the impact of polarization from ancient Alexandria to Charlottesville 2017.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Trump's World of Fuzzy Borders. A piece i wrote with Steve Hanson www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Remaking the World Map. What Could Go Wrong?
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Remember when we got told we were being hyperbolic for saying that the Christian right wanted to turn the U.S. into a theocracy?
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Rent a car!
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My latest co-scribbling. The new geopolitics of fuzzy borders legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/04/2...
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L’ère des frontières floues | Le Grand Continent
Si depuis la seconde guerre mondiale la carte du monde n'a jamais semblé aussi instable, c’est qu’une nouvelle forme de pouvoir s’est installée de Moscou à Washington.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sent you a real dog.
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Curt Milam @curtismilam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
UKR has the largest, most capable and most experienced armed forces in Europe If the US leaves NATO...which seems inevitable now, they must accept UKR into the alliance NB: I served 4 yrs as a colonel in NATO's highest military command
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Power and Purge in Enver Hoxha's Albania
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I heard of him for the first time last week.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Great paper and project!
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Looking forward to talking about conspiracy theories on Thursday in Florida (yeah, that's what they want you to think)
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Congratulations!!
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Amen
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I feel that way about the mandatory online cyber security training every two years. The sams identical one.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Latest article together with a great team on user behavior, dog whistles, and explicit antisemitism on Qanon subreddits. How does antisemitism actually "work." Stay tuned. More to come: www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/17...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/01/2026
‘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. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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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...
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Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
America Is Now a Family Business open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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America Is Now a Family Business
Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Can Trump be stopped? Thoughts on one year of America as a family business www.persuasion.community/p/the-patrim...
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America Is Now a Family Business
Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Shout-out to Trump as a patrimonial ruler in today's FT.
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Karlo Basta @karlobasta.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Another shout-out to your book, @jeffkopstein.bsky.social, this time in FT
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Defining Donald Trump
The US leader is often called a fascist but he represents a different kind of political authoritarianism
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You underestimate how vital national interests can be reverse engineered by the fertile theoretical imagination.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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.
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US measles outbreak tops 2,000 known infections
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I like the think of those letter as having been put up on Velcro.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
He landed in red square and said "if a German in a frickin' Cessna can do it, so can I."
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Skocpol on The Assault on the State
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Did you see the new yorker piece on relocating to the netherlands?
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
At my age it's publish AND perish 🤣
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It's about time
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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. www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
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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.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
These are the kinds of updates I need.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The grant money?
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A very sensitive reading of "The Assault on the State."
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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."
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
But there's the issue of students with accommodations.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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!
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Can't one of the methods convert? for the sake of the parents.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
You and your bourgeois arithmetic. Wrecker
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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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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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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)
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My sense is it's an over used word, bordering on an empty signifier at this point.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Looking forward to this.
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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
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Multi-university study maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@www.bsky.social "Does Military Service Make Individuals Susceptible to Political Violence? Attitudinal and Behavioral Evidence" osf.io/preprints/so...
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The Assault on the State
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
New article at PLOS (my first with a large team): dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Hidden in plain sight: antisemitic content in QAnon subreddits
When is online content antisemitic? This matter is highly contested, except in the case of explicit language. Yet implicit antisemitic content and conspiracy narratives about Jews have been on the ris...
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sie haben Recht, dass es sich um mehr als nur die Finanzkrise von 2008 handelt. Wir gehen im Buch ausführlicher auf die Angelegenheit ein.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
An interview I did with der Spiegel on Trump's and others' #AssaultOnTheState www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...
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(S+) US-Politologe über die Trump-Regierung: »Wir sind wie Schlafwandler auf den Abgrund zugetaumelt«
Verwandelt Donald Trump die USA in eine Autokratie? Es ist noch schlimmer, sagt der US-Politologe Jeffrey Kopstein. Trump legt die Axt an den modernen Staat. Und damit an das Leben in Sicherheit, Gesu...
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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#Trump is attacking the “Deep State” to make the US his own – turn it into a family business, historian @jeffkopstein.bsky.social argues. Society will pay a high price. Highly recommended #interview by @bredow.bsky.social at @spiegel.de. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...
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(S+) US-Politologe über die Trump-Regierung: »Wir sind wie Schlafwandler auf den Abgrund zugetaumelt«
Verwandelt Donald Trump die USA in eine Autokratie? Es ist noch schlimmer, sagt der US-Politologe Jeffrey Kopstein. Trump legt die Axt an den modernen Staat. Und damit an das Leben in Sicherheit, Gesu...
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