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		<title>a crime against humanity</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35497</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the elected leader of the United States said, &#8220;A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don&#8217;t want that to happen, but it probably will.&#8221; Even before we learn what actually happens, it is clear that the threat was a crime against humanity that will permanently mark the history [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35497">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the weakness of Trump’s domestic strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yuval Levin offers an important perspective on the second Trump Administration so far.* I anticipate several reasons that Trump opponents will be skeptical, but I think that Levin&#8217;s argument should influence the strategies of the left and the center-left. Levin&#8217;s key points: &#160;Important caveats are required, and Levin acknowledges most of them. First, immigration appears [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35149">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>competing political science perspectives on Trump</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political science is a heterogeneous discipline, and the various subfields are prone to interpret the Trump Administration and MAGA very differently. In my own writing and extracurricular work, I have been trying to support social movements against authoritarianism. Lately, I have been offering trainings&#8211;most recently at the excellent Dayton (OH) Democracy Summit &#8212; on how [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34682">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trump, Modi, Erdogan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[democratic reform overseas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am flying back to the USA after a meeting in Istanbul with activists and NGO leaders from six or more countries. (By the way, I don&#8217;t think that all of them could have met in the USA because of our government&#8217;s visa policies and treatment of visitors.) One of the many benefits of the [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34603">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the rule of law and the Trump Administration versus higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, according to The New York Times, the Trump Administration sent letters to nine universities offering them financial benefits and relief from investigations if they agree (among other things) to &#8220;freeze tuition for five years,&#8221; provide &#8220;free tuition to students studying math, biology, or other &#8216;hard sciences&#8217; if endowments exceed $2 million per undergraduate,&#8221; [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34551">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>AAUP v Rubio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 25, Tufts student R&#252;meysa &#214;zt&#252;rk was abducted by masked ICE agents because she had co-authored a clearly legal op-ed in our campus newspaper, not directly about Israel but about how the university had responded to our student government. According to Andre Watson, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of ICE, this [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34539">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>national narcissism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the United Nations yesterday, our president told the assembled leaders, &#8220;Your countries are going to hell.&#8221; The Trump Administration extolls the unique excellence of the United States. An early executive order (14190, Jan 29, 2025) called on schools &#8220;to&#160;instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation.&#8221; But the same movement also paints a picture [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34514">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a checklist for democracy activists</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34414</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonviolence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Americans are working to defend democracy, but we need even more. People with diverse agendas and various diagnoses of our current problems must take action right now. There are several legitimate theories of our crisis. We need people to address whatever aspects resonate most with them, coming from their diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. I [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34414">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>holding two ideas at once: the attack on universities is authoritarian, and viewpoint diversity is important</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34353</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two points are valid, in my opinion, and we should address both: First, the Trump Administration is using almost every available tool, including unconstitutional methods, to harm universities and to interfere in their internal affairs. At my university, they literally abducted a beloved graduate student because she had written a completely appropriate op-ed in our [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34353">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>learning from the Great Salt March: on civil disobedience and breaking through to mass opinion</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34314</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erica Chenoweth,&#160;Soha Hammam,&#160;Jeremy Pressman, and&#160;Christopher Wiley Shay estimate that the No Kings protests this June were among the largest in American history, and the number of protests is growing faster than in 2017 (see the graph above). Protesting has several purposes, including advertising a movement and recruiting people to take other actions. But protests can [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34314">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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