Talbot Imlay

It's a little frightening to see someone so vividly and undeniably demonstrate that there is no political-moral line they won't cross.

Un peu trop tard, Steven, un peu trop tard...

Ex-Bush official criticizes Trump team for "a stunning strategic error". Irony is truly dead.

I don't expect to convince many people. I've been stunned by the response those of us who objected to the Green Party motion have received. I've been called a “genocide lover” a “warmonger”, a “colonialist” etc. I'm none of these things. The very opposite in fact.

Couldn't the headline just read, "Bribery Works"? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I'm glad the Globe's editors are so sure that the PQ's victory had nothing to do with it's toxic brand of identity politics. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Does it make much sense to call China, Russia or even North Korea communist? The term has meaning but, perhaps ironically, principally in a US domestic political context as a scare-term.

I'm kinda curious about how Carlson's Hitler/Nazi Germany was not so bad take squares with his pro-Russian, pro-Poutine orientation.

I'm not sure when Blair sold his soul but, one thing for sure, he keeps hawking it.

I for one am reassured.

That's a little harsh, isn't it?

I just spotted that my book was one of those reviewed in this suggestive essay about the transnational circulation and contestation of, and adaptation to, neoliberal ideas in late C20th European social democracy. Very pleasing to be read alongside such excellent authors. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

I'm not sure this is going to change many people's views of the man.

Behold the future of academe...

Another position at the École supérieure d'études internationales at the Université Laval. They really are sweet positions. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70446/l...

The ÉSEI at the Université Laval has a position in Arctic defence and security. These are really attractive positions -- small teaching load, research budget and more. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70423/l...

Une réflexion claire sur ce que nous fourguent les populistes : une fierté gonflée au calories vides.

As we said from the moment this idea was first floated: privatizing our airports benefits no one but corporations out to make a profit.

Privatization wasn’t on the ballot when Canadians voted for Mark Carney. Really foul the way he’s using the blind trust so many continue to have in him to make massive, fundamental changes to Canada (hurting normal Canadians) so big companies can profit. Please pay attention.

"on est le pays le plus accueillant au monde" faqu'attends, j'sors ma loupe. #débat

A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

This is worth a read, I think. Jonathan Kirshner asks if the Trump administration represents a crisis for IR theory. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

What is there left to say.

Les Américains ont de difficulté à comprendre que d'autres peuvent jouer ce jeu.

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

Wow, the National Post and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute teaming up for this banger. Garbage in, garbage out...

Interesting research on neo-colonialism in Africa. Turns out the Eurozone is a much worse offender (by an enormous margin) than China. @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social might be interested.

I'm keen to read this. My sense is that IR people have some strange ideas about "archival" research, but it's a great idea to be talking about it.

To be honest, I don't think the PQ is very much interested in Quebec anglos. It knows they won't vote PQ so alienating them carries no political price.

Is this an SNL skit?

S. Jonathan Wiesen, Julia S. Torrie, Eric Kurlander et Jennifer V. Evans (eds.) - The Routledge History of Global Nazism À paraître en décembre

J'ai ri.

Rubio would be better for "Europe" than Vance! This is the best the FT can do in terms of punditry?

Elect a central banker...get a central banker.

I think this graph is perhaps the most important to consider when trying to understand the failures of our energy policies.

Wow, what a surprising take from the Globe and Mail. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Die Festung Europa wackelt.

I wonder if is she's angling for a place in Carney's govt? The timing is interesting, perhaps more than the content.

I think I saw a few films with similar plots. This never ends well...

ever since i was a little girl, i dreamed of someday becoming my own blood boy

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

I'm pleased to share this new paper, "The myth of 'catch-up' development". The paper assesses trends in core-periphery inequality since 1960, and draws several main conclusions: 🧵https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2026.2659076

I'd like to see chart tracking Graham's personal worth over the years since becoming a senator. If we're looking into motives, I'd start there.

NEW: @katemac.bsky.social & I: "Heat waves tend to attract less attention than the charismatic megafauna of climate disasters—floods, storms, wildfires—in part because they cause less property damage & thus less obviously financially costly" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Graphic @TheEconomist