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PhD student, Harvard Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy https://marchvidkjaer.github.io/
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Any university leader doing this deserves all the shame that history will bestow upon them. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Classic moment at Harvard Sq. See second 12: "Humanity rises and falls as one" -- The scene in the background is almost too good to be true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC32...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Interesting observation by the @nytimes.com We (Harvard, universities, civil society generally) may come stronger out of this, as we find common cause. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

"This is a fight for democracy and the rule of law. These are the principles that unite us. We are not here to protect our diplomas or to protect Harvard’s endowment. We are here because there is an idea in America, represented by all of you, that is worth fighting for."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A view of the Harvard Kennedy School forum this morning

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is aging all too well

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is where I will be this afternoon. Stand with our international students. Stand with Harvard. The fight for their rights is about the rule of law in this country.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Reading a chapter on how to spot fakers in markets (from 2022), citing research by…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Kyiv School of Economics offering academic refuge for Harvard University students.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

"“Trump has a way of unifying people – Canadians, Australians, Harvard faculty, you name it,” says Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard."

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www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educatio...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Real profiles in courage here. Donald Trump's administration is waging war, on numerous fronts, against America's core values of individual liberty, private enterprise, and openness.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Regardless of methodological clan, this is interesting

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Two-level soft power? The state may lose some, but an institution may preserve it. The strength of liberal democracy?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to imagine a bigger self-inflicted wound. The envy of the world brought to ruin.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

This portends a dramatic reshaping of American government. Essentially an undoing of the modern bureaucratic state. Returning America to a pre-modern past.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 9 days ago • 313 comments

The international students at Harvard contribute more to this country in one day than the low-life wannabe authoritarians in the Trump administration will in a lifetime.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

The collapse of the rule of law in America feels a bit like 1989 but in a bad way. A reference point for decades just gone in weeks

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

"“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” according to a letter sent to the university by Kristi Noem" *all* Harvard internationals may be out now www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

Extracting billions (mostly in foreign money) from the presidency www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Exactly what the Founders feared and hoped to prevent.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

To the extent that Donald Trump is an existential threat to the American republic (he is), I think it's probably worth spending at least a little time interrogating how almost all the major figures in the Democratic Party thought it was more important to soothe a feeble old man's ego than win.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

1. this case was solved because of broad coverage, and shows the cost of a lack of self-regulation, 2. we may some times want to sacrifice accuracy for expediency, and discuss results as we check them I do not see that this case has shown downsides sharing early; quite the contrary

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Aristokratiske tider i DK. Interessant karakter.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Okay this one is pretty hilarious. The US embassy apply with the Copenhagen municipality to renew their diplomatic license plates, but condition their own payment - for public services which, to stress the obvious, they critically need - on the municipality committing to anti-DEI. No dice.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Very random that I spent my sunday afternoon watching this lecture, but it was very interesting throughout.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment