FREE TO READ: In an exclusive interview contributing editor @stevenklein.bsky.social speaks to philosopher Elizabeth Anderson about how progressives can reclaim a positive vision of the work ethic.
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Very proud to see this issue of Renewal out. In it, we use the Employment Rights Act to think more broadly about the politics of work today. With great contributors ranging across history, social science, and philosophy, including Elizabeth Anderson and my KCL colleague Jimena Valdez
Another victim of British politeness.
New article on PPP! TY to @georgeboss.bsky.social for facilitating & many others for talking 2 me about it, inc. from @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social & @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social It's the final piece in our special edition of #PublicHumanities & meant 2 b short+accessible: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What is this framing my times?!
When someone is good at politics it really throws into relief how the poor judgment of the rest
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🆕 When carbon taxes feel unfair 💸
David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach carry out a survey in the UK to provide observational and experimental evidence to highlight the impacts of rural resentment on support for carbon taxation
many comp lit PhD students and profs learned set theory just to then be subjected to this
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The text of my lecture yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. A special thank you to @stevenklein.bsky.social for the generous invitation! www.unpopularfront.news/p/why-the-cl...
Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"
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Great turnout for John Ganz in London and excellent discussion of Iran, the conservative movement, and the future of MAGA
We are delighted to invite nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2026 BIAPT Early-Career and Mid-Career prizes! The deadline for nominations is May 22nd. Full details are below 👇
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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.
Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.
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Horkheimer (almost certainly written in collaboration with Adorno) in unpublished notes from 1939 on the image of a rational society
There is no doubt in my mind that Habermas was the most significant social and political philosopher of the twentieth century. I doubt there will ever be another thinker on that scale.
Terry Eagleton: “A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
What can the deep history of democracy tell us about renewal today? Excited to be presenting a new paper coauthored with my colleague Federica Carugati at MANCEPT today
Excellent review of Natasha Piano's groundbreaking new book Democratic elitism: the founding myth of American political science. Far from being advocates of a "realistic" view of democracy, the Italian elite theorists warn us of the plutocratic dangers of election
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The London Political Theory Network is organising a professional development workshop on 11 May for PhD students and early career political theorists in order to broaden access to the discipline. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lptn-sprin...
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
There's an emerging coterie of "dissident," anti-woke journalists who argue that calling Epstein a pedophile is part of a moral panic that bends the facts. But all evidence points to Epstein in fact being a pedophile.
A good moment to remember that when you dig into history, the British are behind almost every major global crisis. In this case it was also Attlee's Labour government that began to undermine Iranian democracy, although eventually Churchill who launched the coup.
the right/conservatives seem to actually like their voters on an affective, moral, and cultural level. don't really understand why this dynamic plays out this way.
there's a peculiar dynamic where centre-left political elites/advisors around the world seem to have an intense contempt for their own voters. they/we believe the caricature of their voters as woke urban professionals out of touch with the "real" core of their country.
