Nicolas Guilhot

@GuilhotNicolas

Professor of Intellectual History, European University Institute

Florence, Tuscany

Joined May 2019

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · May 20, 2021

Today, the #giroditalia passed by the EUI. The front runners were humiliated when an intellectual historian passed them on his way to a Zoom meeting.

GuilhotNicolas's tweet image. Today, the #giroditalia passed by the EUI. The front runners were humiliated when an intellectual historian passed them on his way to a Zoom meeting.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Jul 22

Many thanks to @Jderbyshire for the opportunity and to @IllustratorEwan for a fantastic picture!

JJonathan Derbyshire@Jderbyshire · Jul 21

Great to have the splendid @GuilhotNicolas writing for @ftopinion about digital democratic centralism (aka the 'America party') on.ft.com/44Tva2r

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Jun 20

Indeed. nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opi… via @NYTOpinion

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. Failing to aggressively defend Congress’s role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · May 15

If they really meant to live by their 1930s analogy, they would not migrate to the Canadian Sudetenland… nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opi… via @NYTOpinion

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Nov 24

🤣nytimes.com/2024/11/24/opi… via @NYTOpinion

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. The theories of the 20th-century philosopher John Rawls can inspire a new way for Democrats to find relevance.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Nov 18

Sense. nytimes.com/2024/11/17/opi… via @NYTOpinion

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. He should force a settlement to save lives and avoid more destruction.

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Gideon Levy@gideonle · Nov 7

Like Kamala Harris, Israel's opposition is charming, decent - and terrifyingly hollow haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1….

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Jul 22

This is excellent—and the intro by Stefanos Geroulanos a joy to read. tank.tv/magazine/issue…

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Jul 21

A few thoughts about Musk’s America Party. Big Tech can beat political parties at their own game ft.com/content/fd3573… via @ft

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. Elon Musk does not need to launch the “America party” — he already owns the tools to herd individuals into a critical mass

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Jul 3

Flawless: America is over neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Trump is not | Samuel Moyn theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. Between his so-called ‘big, beautiful bill’ and his bombing of Iran, Trump has confirmed he is a man of a familiar past

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Jun 11

Must-read. lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june…

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. The protests that broke out last weekend in Los Angeles are at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the...

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Mediterranea Saving Humans@RescueMed · Jun 10

Solidarietà a @resqship Chiediamo la fine immediata della detenzione arbitraria della barca a vela #NADIR #Libia e #Tunisia non sono porti sicuri. Le persone soccorse devono essere sbarcate nel porto sicuro più vicino. Il soccorso non si criminalizza.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · May 16

Looking forward to discussing Didier Fassin’s latest book Moral Abdication (⁦@VersoBooks⁩) at the ⁦@EUI_EU⁩! linkedin.com/posts/european…

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. 📚On 28 May, anthropologist Didier Fassin joins EUI scholars Revital Madar and Nicolas Guilhot to discuss his latest book 'Une étrange défaite'. Together, they will examine the crushing of Gaza and...

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Mar 31

It was a pleasure to read and discuss Sophie’s book!

RRemarque Institute at NYU@RemarqueNYU · Mar 31

Watch Sophia Rosenfeld talk about her book, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, in conversation with @jenszalai and @GuilhotNicolas. youtube.com/watch?v=KI9azl…

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Dec 3

Oggi sul ⁦@ilmanifesto⁩, alcune riflessioni sul rapporto Draghi. ilmanifesto.it/linnovazione-n…

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EUI Intellectual History (IHWG)@inthisEUI · Nov 26

❗Are you an EUI researcher interested in intellectual history? If so, consider applying to our 8th annual workshop, "Past Ideas, Present Insights: The Futures of Intellectual History!" Keynote: @OrRosenboim When: 29 January 2025 Deadline: 8 January 2025 See the CfP!

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Nov 13

“If Trump’s democratic victory scrambled the notion of the Resistance, then the class composition of his majority unsettled the self-congratulatory narratives around ‘Bidenomics’.” Tim Barker, Dealignment — Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. On the US elections.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Nov 11

What Does It Mean That Resistance Liberals Are Still Stuck in This Repeat Loop? newyorker.com/magazine/dispa…

GuilhotNicolas's tweet card. Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolas · Nov 7

“The strength of Trump’s reach into the traditional Democratic coalition of voters of color was stunning.” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/…

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