Phil Triadafilopoulos

Our next Harney lecture featuring Prof. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) is this Thursday March 12, 5-7pm, 315 Bloor Street West. We are almost at capacity, so please register as soon as possible. For details & registration visit: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr...

EMBARGOED: Germany: Who is Cem Özdemir? Cem Özdemir is set to become the first politician with Turkish roots to lead a German federal state. His Green Party won elections in the wealthy southwestern region of Baden-Württemberg.

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Please join us for our next Harney lecture featuring Prof. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law), Thursday March 12, 5-7pm, 315 Bloor Street West. Seats are going fast, so please register soon. For details & registration visit: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr...

The University of Texas System has passed a set of rules regulating the teaching of "controversy." The administration of each university in the system gets to decide what constitutes controversy. I've published an op-ed in the Austin Statesman respoonding.

The Harney Lecture Series is proud to present Prof. Audrey Macklin, "Immigration Exceptionalism and the Dual State" Thursday March 12, 5:00 - 7:00PM, Munk School, Boardroom, 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Register: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6468/r...
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TODAY! Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar,Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. Registration: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6421/r... Details: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef...

REMINDER: Our next Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar is this Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. This is an in-person only event, so please register asap (there are only a few seats left!): munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6421/r...
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Please join us for our next Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar on Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. For details and registration, click: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef.... Please register as soon as possible as space is limited.

What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions

This Thursday! Join us for a panel discussion on "What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy?
Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions." Details and registration here:
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What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions

What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions

January 22, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto

Please see the link below for details & registration:
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Harney Lecture Series

On the Frontline of Immigration Enforcement: The Battle to Preserve Asylum & Human Rights on the US-Mexico Border, with Luis Campos. November 5, 2025, 4-6PM, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Rm 108, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto.
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Metro Morning with David Common: What would scrapping the temporary foreign worker program mean for Canada? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thanks to David Common and the team at CBC Radio’s Metro Morning for the opportunity to discuss the intensifying political debate over Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada.

Metro Morning with David Common: What would scrapping the temporary foreign worker program mean for Canada?

Whose School System? Rethinking Immigration and Education Policy in Ontario How one of our research teams, led by Dr. Phil Triadafilopoulos, is examining Ontario’s evolving response to the educational needs of immigrant and second-generation pupils How is education policy res...

Over on our LinkedIn page, we're piloting a new Research-in-Progress article series. You can check it out here!

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Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions We examine preferences for redistribution in Germany’s public pension system as well as notions of fairness of the system, using survey and experiment…

New publication with Breyer, Sterba, &Schwerdt @excinequality.bsky.social

In an experiment, a 1/3 of respondents are able to identify the actual distribution of pensions according to the German pension regime. Politicians do a bit better. Citizens & politicians want more redistributive pensions.

Our article with @lindawhite.bsky.social , @philtriadafilos.bsky.social, and Jim Farney is now available in Publius: The Journal of Federalism! academic.oup.com/publius/adva...

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People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

Congratulations, Dr. Trevor Reichman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

Thanks for clarifying, Fabian. I look forward to reading your article and the piece by Claus Hofhansel (thanks for recommending both!).

Agree for most part, Maarten, but there was a measure of cowardice/bad faith in that reform (sadly directed at the most vulnerable). It may have been the cost of doing business in an unwieldy coalition, but it was problematic nonetheless. Labour doesn’t have that excuse, so it’s even worse.

Canada Strong | Liberal Party of Canada Download our plan

The Liberal platform is fairly strong on policy but rather weak on governance.

It would require a serious effort to renew intergovernmental relations to accomplish this - by institutionalizing Team Canada and envisioning a formal role for municipal and Indigenous stakeholders.

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When China and the U.S. fight, who wins? Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-04-16 · 41m

Highly recommended. Great work by Front Burner host Jayme Poisson and guest David Rennie of The Economist. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

New from me, with a bonus Simpsons analogy!

Seit 2014 gab es unzählige Verschärfungen des Asyl- und Ausländerrechts, immer mit dem Kalkül, den Druck vom rassistischen Kessel zu nehmen. Die AfD stand damals bei 6%. Heute ist sie mit 25% stärkste Kraft. Diese Politik hat empirisch versagt. Trotzdem halten CDU und SPD daran fest. Unbelehrbar.

Eilidh Beaton, Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem - PhilPapers Political philosophy has long been criticised for its state-centricity. A recent version of this objection asserts that the discipline perpetuates a problematic methodological nationalism. Critics arg...

📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)



A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, multiculturalism has come under fire from champions of civic integration and far right-wing populists. Despite this, multiculturalism policie...

Why have multiculturalism policies been so durable in Europe, despite the ascent of civic integration policies and right-wing populist parties? Daniel Westlake, Keith Banting and I have some thoughts: The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5AV3Y...

So, “real reform” might require less stringent interpretations of human rights and Germany purposefully undermining EU asylum laws/procedures? And mandatory detention to boot? An alarming prescription that pours rhetorical gasoline onto the fire that is migration politics in Germany. Shocking & sad.

Can Friedrich Merz navigate Germany’s fragmented political landscape? A grand coalition between the CDU/CSU and SPD is widely expected in Germany. But can the new coalition respond to the multiple challenges facing the country?

It's a reasonable question, but what, exactly, would be the alternative? #Germany #Merz