Essay on Brexit and the crisis of representative democracy, published in London Review of Books.
Category: Articles
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‘The funny side of politics’
Article published in openDemocracy on the convergence of comedy and politics.
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‘Everything is war and nothing is true’
Op-Ed published in The New York Times, featuring arguments from Nervous States.
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‘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.
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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.
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Anger Fast & Slow
This piece was given as the Annual Lecture at the Queen Mary Center for the History of Emotions.
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Review of National Populism
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin reviewed in The Guardian.
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‘Against responsibility’
Review of Family Values by Melinda Cooper, published in London Review of Books.
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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.
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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.
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The ‘revenge of sovereignty on government’
Op-ed article in The New York Times, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence.
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What is ‘left populism’?
Review of For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe, published in The Guardian.
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How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
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