Catherine Lu
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice, McGill. Co-editor of International Theory. Posts here speak only for myself.
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- Reading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!
- Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social explaining how current US(Russia) 'peace talks' lead to the peace of the graveyard for Ukraine and Ukrainians.
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- A wide-ranging video podcast in which I answer questions about why & how we should argue, the importance of thinking clearly & academic freedom, what to think about historic, structural and global justice, who broke international order & how did we get here. Happy 10th Anniversary to the Lin Centre!
- Lin Centre Director and RGCS faculty member @catherinelu.bsky.social Catherine Lu discusses the Centre as well as her own ideas on "Freedom and justice in a polarized world." youtu.be/Lso9Ew_k5Vg?...
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- Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social
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- This enthralling examination of a tragic personal/political story reimagines how people respond to politically tumultuous times, uncertainty & injustice. A bold, riveting, humbling reflection on humanity & human dignity. Congratulations, @leaypi.bsky.social! www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/752510...
- 'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.
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- This Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.
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- Reposted by Catherine LuCo-lauréats 2025 du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP: Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Dates à venir
- Reposted by Catherine LuGRIPP Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award 2025 co-winners: Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Dates TBA
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- Sadly, this warning is even more true today. Courage to my American friends.
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- Make no mistake about what the unfolding political struggle in California is about. Are Americans free from tyranny and enslavement? 'This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.' Euripides, Hecuba. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- First Canada, then, maybe California? With the militarization of US federal-state relations, we can see now how presumptuous it was for Tyrant Trump to mock Canada becoming the 51st state, as if he could be certain that the union of 50 states would continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- Reposted by Catherine LuUPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody. His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice." Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.
- Reposted by Catherine LuEVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.
- Reposted by Catherine LuHello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797
- Thank you so much, @ycpt.bsky.social , for the constructive questions and great discussion, and the opportunity to share my work with you!
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- It's Trump First, America Last. Analysis by my dear colleague, @jacobtlevy.bsky.social . wapo.st/3YFsNyd
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- Honour to Graham Parsons, (former) professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, who truthfully explains the costs of West Point's capitulation to the Trump administration. To succeed in a regime, one must become like the regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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- Trump says the United States is going to be 'friends' with Canada. I will share my thoughts at the JFK Institute for North American studies in Berlin, May 28: "Can the U.S. and Canada Ever Be Friends? Inequality, Solidarity, and Political Friendship", www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/poli...
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- Foreseeable and ominous political catastrophe: U.S. Attorney General Bondi's “wholesale rejection of the death penalty protocol" in one prominent case. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
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- Reposted by Catherine LuVideo obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
- Reposted by Catherine Lu1) INDIGNITY has a cover! We are still on the theme of nature and freedom but this time with canaries - one of the one hundred that feature prominently in the book. Full info (about the book, not the canaries yet) in the link below 😜🌹🐥 www.penguin.co.uk/books/458930...
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- Capitalism will die, after all, when life becomes uninsurable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Catherine LuI received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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