Ben Zachariah on the postcolonial right, reviewed in Compact. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Rise of the Völkisch Left
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant.
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Out in the UK today: "In the philosophical tradition of Montaigne and Camus." -Raymond Geuss "I am reminded of some of the great American writers." -Justin Weinberg "A beautiful book from a philosopher who has refused to separate philosophy from life itself." -Justin Smith-Ruiu
Releasing soon: "Deserves a place in the philosophical tradition of Montaigne and Camus." -Raymond Geuss "I am reminded of some of the great American writers." -Justin Weinberg "A beautiful book from a philosopher who has refused to separate philosophy from life itself." -Justin Smith-Ruiu
Jens Beckert explains why we aren't tackling climate change and probably won't, under capitalist modernity. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
Jens Beckert: Democracy won’t beat climate change
From profit maximisation to short term limits, is capitalist modernity equipped to tackle climate change?
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Glyn Morgan in L-Post Belgium talking about the fall of American Europe. lpost.be/politique/lo...
L’OTAN, l’UE et la fin du parapluie américain : le diagnostic sans appel du politologue Glyn Morgan
L’Union européenne est-elle un projet d’indépendance réussi ou simplement le protectorat vieillissant d’une puissance devenue hostile ? C’est la que
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Denis Cogneau explains how to understand the French colonial empire: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
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The FT reviews Glyn Morgan's "incisive" Rise and Fall of American Europe: www.ft.com/content/1971...
How Europe was made — and how America could unmake it
Two timely new books examine the European project, its history and the threats to its future
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Wonderful! Thomas Nagel in the LRB on T.M. Scanlon's new book: I’m not sorry www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Nagel · I’m not sorry: Should we punish?
Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it...
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Mark Leonard's *Surving Chaos* publishing this Friday in the UK. "Yet another of Mark Leonard's brilliant books." --Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
One of our most anticipated books of the spring, now in stock and shipping to UK shops through May. Glyn Morgan's Rise and Fall of American Europe.
Maybe this account of why the BBC is cutting public events staff also explains why its website is full of American celebrity news. Depressing.
Adam Kadlac, author of The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life, in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: We shouldn't treat Disney adults like cultural abominations
Seeking an escape at one of Mickey's parks isn't any worse than checking out by playing video games, watching sports or reading smutty novels.
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Raymond Geuss's *Tracks in Chaos*. Now in the warehouse and available in the UK on 10 April.
Crucial background for the current conflict. Hamid Azizi's *Axis of Resistance*. Due in May in UK/Europe, summer in US.
Does strategic bombing, like in Iran, achieve major policy goals? The record is not good. John Arquilla's timely book about what the US gets wrong when it goes to war. Due in the US in June.
A great review of Gerald Garutti's *Watch Your Words*, a crtitique of our contemporary abuse of language (not least on social media like this). ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/cg4a97lz...
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Proofs are in for Glyn Morgan's prescient *Rise and Fall of American Europe*. Books due in late spring. Glyn analyses exactly the political choices that European leaders are now confronting with Trump's aggression over Greenland.
Published today in the UK, Matt Sleat's critique of post-liberalism.
Coming to bookstores in 2026. If you can't wait, the fall of American Europe is, of course, already available in reality.
Andrea Capussela on what we haven't learned from the financial crisis: www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
Andrea Capussela, what have we not learned from the Financial Crisis? — Institute of Intellectual History
Political economist Andrea Capussela discusses how a republican conception of freedom and Schumpeter’s idea of ‘creative destruction’ can converge to foster economic reform and innovation.
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Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
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FT on Alan Manning's new book: "Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning’s carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject." www.ft.com/content/9005...
Why Immigration Policy Is Hard — a guide to breaking out of the ‘infernal circle’
Economist Alan Manning takes a balanced, sometimes uncomfortable look at the costs, benefits and trade-offs of migration
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Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better. 'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
Out tomorrow, Alan Manning's Why Immigration Policy is Hard. People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart. -Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking. -Stephen Bush, FT
My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social) These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved: ‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom, True freedom, Capussela writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-ca...
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How did Canada come to exist and how has it remained sovereign despite repeated overtures, some nicer than others, from the south? I'm delighted to say the great Robert Bothwell is writing a book for Polity on the subject. Due to be completed in the spring.
“A fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it.” Stephen Bush, The Financial Times
