Article in London Review of Books on Labour’s economic dilemmas and the recent budget.
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‘Stay home: mapping the new domestic regime’
I have a new open access paper in Economy & Society, co-authored with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor, on the rising centrality of ‘home’ to current political, economic and governmental problems.
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‘How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster’
Long Read for The Guardian, as part of a series on 14 years of Conservative rule, on the crisis facing universities and its political roots.
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‘Generation anxiety’
Review essay on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, published in London Review of Books.
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‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
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‘Antimarket’
Review of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism won’t save the planet by Brett Christophers, published in the latest London Review of Books.
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‘Reaction value: affective reflex in the digital public sphere’
A new academic article published in Distinktion, of which a preprint is available here (or there are apparently free downloads here for the first 50 people who click on the link). This is a theoretical development of the themes I explored in my LRB Winter Lecture last year.
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‘Thomas Piketty’s failed revolution’
An essay for Unherd, reflecting on the significance and impact of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one decade on from its publication.
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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”
William Davies 