An essay for Unherd, reflecting on the significance and impact of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one decade on from its publication.
Author: willdavies
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‘Left Behind: the failed revolutions of the 2010s’
I discussed my recent article, ‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution’, on the New Statesman podcast. Listen on Acast or iTunes.
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‘Eye-watering taxes are a problem for the Tories – and an even bigger one for Labour’
Comment piece in The Guardian on the new fiscal settlement, in which tax rises have become unmoored from any palpable social progress.
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‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without revolution’
A review essay for The New Statesman, examining two new books on the 2010s, If We Burn by Vincent Bevins and The Populist Moment by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger.
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‘Why Weber?’
Review essay on Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber and the crisis of higher education, published in the London Review of Books.
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Review of Doppelganger
Review of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, published in The Guardian.
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‘No, Rishi Sunak, ‘rip-off’ degree courses aren’t the problem – failed education policy is’
Comment piece in The Guardian on how Britain reached a situation in which the Prime Minister is promising to “crack down on rip-off degrees”
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LRB podcast on inflation
I discussed my recent LRB article on inflation with Thomas Jones on the LRB podcast. Listen here.
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‘Pain, no gain’
I’ve written for London Review of Books about the crisis of inflation and rising interest rates in the UK, and the wider ideological climate.
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‘The post-neoliberal moment’
I was interviewed by Evgeny Morozov on ‘post-neoliberalism’, as part of a series of interviews and discussions published by The Syllabus. For more on ‘post-neoliberalism’, see the special issue of Theory Culture & Society I co-edited on the topic.
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‘Trust and authenticity in the age of infinite data’ – Dublin, 7th June
I will be giving a public keynote lecture in Dublin on 7th June, as part of this conference on ‘trust’ hosted by University College Dublin. Register here to attend.
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‘A dog in the fight’
I’ve written about the phenomenon of ‘fandom’, especially how it was fetishised and commercialised in the early 1990s, in the latest London Review of Books, in a review of Paul Campos’s A Fan’s Life.
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‘Do we really need John Rawls?’
Review essay in The New Statesman on Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler, a book which uses John Rawls as a blueprint for policy reform.
William Davies 