Benjamin A. Schupmann

There is a precedent for Kevin McCarthy’s ouster in Weimar Germany. In my new book ‘Democracy despite Itself’, forthcoming with @OUPLaw, I explore the implications of that precedent and how to defend democracy against internal enemies

Ended an evening run early because 99% humidity feels like 99, not 33. The sun hasn’t even been out today 🥵

Looking forward to Sam Moyn’s talk “Saving Liberalism from Crisis” tomorrow night at Yale-NUS College. Details and how to register to attend (in person or by zoom) here: eventbrite.com/e/yale-nus-lec…

Why?

@SIssacharoff at Just Security. justsecurity.org/91009/old-cons…

Jan-Werner Müller at project syndicate (discussing Trump and Björn Höcke, a leader of the AfD) project-syndicate.org/commentary/dis…

Some recent thought-provoking work on militant democracy in the United States, related to section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

@PeterVerovsek Based on the chapters I’ve seen so far, this is going to be a fantastic book. Looks like it was a great workshop

I am still recovering from my book manuscript workshop in Frankfurt last Friday, but I want to thank all the great scholars who came for helping me to improve my book on Habermas the public intellectual. Now I just have to figure out how to integrate all the comments I received!

🗃️From our archives: On #HolocaustRemembrance Day we share an article by @PeterVerovsek on how memory - especially in these dark times - is essential for democracy. voxeurop.eu/en/preserving-…

@DrMaDMo Matthew!!!! Phenomenal news. I’m really happy for you. Congrats!

Looking forward to getting a copy of Steinmetz-Jenkin’s edited volume on fascism. Looks excellent

I’m grateful to Wendy Brown for offering such generous responses to the questions I posed in our interview—published today in The Nation: thenation.com/article/cultur…

Quinta Jurecic on how Article 14.3 represents an early form of militant democracy. And how democracy needs mechanisms to restrict the rights of popular antidemocrats, unless we think democracy is just mob rule essentially. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This constitutional form is designed to contain threats to democracy, such as so-called “illiberal democrats” and populist extremists.

It draws inspiration from both the 1949 German Basic Law (their postwar constitution, designed to avoid a repeat of Hitler’s legal ascent to power) and 20th century normative political and legal theory.

A lot of interesting articles recently about the legitimacy of removing candidates from the ballot in a democracy. For example today by @AdamSerwer . theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@PeterVerovsek @OUPLaw Let the self-promotion roll 🙈

@BASchupmann @OUPLaw Cool - and excellent self-promotion! 😉

There is a precedent for Kevin McCarthy’s ouster in Weimar Germany. In my new book ‘Democracy despite Itself’, forthcoming with @OUPLaw, I explore the implications of that precedent and how to defend democracy against internal enemies

Hegel scholars will understand

Looking forward to wearing my Laksa breakfast for the next 36 hours

I’ll present a paper on Otto Kirchheimer and Militant Democracy

Looking forward to @TheGSA #theGSA2023 . I’ll be a part of the workshop on ‘Militant Democracy: Then and Now’