Week 2 on this subtropical campus @UNSW

Susan Pedersen · Diary: Men explain Epstein to me A girl doesn’t have to fall into Epstein’s clutches to see sexual abuse up close, and if she gets through childhood...

Men explain Epstein to me: “This is the story I could tell on a podcast –although in telling it I might become incoherent with rage or start crying. Men don’t really need to hear this from me anyway; all they need to do is listen to the women around them.”

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sydney vibes, on day 2 @UNSW

Thanks Laura :)

Thanks James!

First day as a Postdoctoral Fellow @UNSW

Excited to begin my new project on Medical Utopias in the 19th century

Reminds me of my daily commute

“… and many other uses” !

I was today years old when I found out they were originally called Baby Gays before being rebranded Q-tips Baby Gays

Ping @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Particularly the finale!

New issue of EJHET just published - including my review of the first full edition of Saint-Simon's correspondence (1782-1825)

Congratulations. Look forward to reading it!

Depiction of an imagined Fourierist phalanstery by H. Fugère

Very pleased to announce that, as of April next year, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at UNSW - and working on my new project:

"Medical Utopias in the French and Anglophone Worlds, c. 1840-1890"

Henri Saint-Simon. Correspondance (1782–1825) Published in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review of Saint-Simon’s recently published Correspondence by @thomaslalevee.bsky.social. The work being reviewed was edited by Pierre Musso, who is probably the leading Saint-Simon scholar today.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GT7XF...

The whole point of Dawn of Everything is that no 1 thing predetermines how human society is organised or structured & we have a much greater degree of agency to create different ways of living/being - at least more than traditional social science (and grifters like Harare) would have us assume

One Host Theory

H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-50 on Sonenscher, After Kant 28 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-50 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Michael Behrent Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…

Great roundtable review on After Kant in @HDiplo - with contributions from M. C. Behrent, A. Jainchill & Eva Piirimäe & a reply by M. Sonenscher

Sonenscher: “Events begin and end, but ideas have fuzzier or more porous boundaries.”

issforum.org/roundtables/...

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In my forthcoming but so far only half written book…!

Cambridge methodology primer:
“One of my aims in writing about the long debate over how to think about the concept of civil liberty was to ask whether those who eventually lost the battle may nevertheless have won the argument. To change the metaphor, I have been in quest of buried treasure.”

This looks fascinating.

Thanks @tomaashby.bsky.social

#1 Richard Whatmore, can Intellectual History save liberty? Podcast Episode · Roots and Branches · 01/07/2025 · 1 sec

First episode with Richard Whatmore: “Can intellectual history save liberty?”

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New review of Michael Sonenscher’s Capitalism contains this absolute gem

(That the review is by an economist makes the claim even more farcical)

www.independent.org/tir/2025-sum...

Thanks Cayce! Full text also available here: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/e67128...

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Coming soon! Roots and Branches - the new ideas podcast from the @StAndrewsIIH at the @univofstandrews

A new ideas podcast is coming!

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Thoughtful and moving from Chelsea Wallis

Alasdair MacIntyre This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...

For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English)

undpress.nd.edu/978026820325...

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Happy book birthday!!