My piece in London Review of Books, on the Tory leadership contest and the lies that it generates.
‘Reasons to be cheerful’
‘A fanatical sect has hijacked British politics’
Op-ed published in The New York Times, on the Conservative leadership election.
‘They don’t even need ideas’
Essay on Brexit and the crisis of representative democracy, published in London Review of Books.
‘The funny side of politics’
Article published in openDemocracy on the convergence of comedy and politics.
‘Everything is war and nothing is true’
Op-Ed published in The New York Times, featuring arguments from Nervous States.
‘Leave, and Leave Again’
Article published in the London Review of Books, looking at the political crisis of Brexit, following the government defeat on 15th January.
Why we stopped trusting elites
Long Read on populism and the crisis of trust, published in The Guardian. An audio version of this article is also available.
Anger Fast & Slow
This piece was given as the Annual Lecture at the Queen Mary Center for the History of Emotions.
Review of National Populism
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin reviewed in The Guardian.
‘Against responsibility’
Review of Family Values by Melinda Cooper, published in London Review of Books.
Book excerpt: ‘How feelings took over the world’
An excerpt from Nervous States is published in today’s Guardian Review.
Guardian Long Read on ‘free speech’
‘The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis’, Long Read in The Guardian
This article is also available as a podcast.
On Jordan Peterson
A review of Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and Douglas Murray, speaking at The O2 arena on 16th July, published in the London Review of Books.
