Article published in the London Review of Books, looking at the political crisis of Brexit, following the government defeat on 15th January.
‘Leave, and Leave Again’
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.
The ‘revenge of sovereignty on government’
Op-ed article in The New York Times, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence.
What is ‘left populism’?
Review of For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe, published in The Guardian.
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
My new book, Nervous States: How feeling took over the world, is now out in the UK, published by Jonathan Cape. It will be published by Norton in the United States in early 2019.
I’ll be speaking about the book at a number of events over the coming months.
Article on Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’
‘Weaponising Paperwork’, published in London Review of Books, looks at the political and policy context that has victimised members of the ‘Windrush generation’.
On Cambridge Analytica
‘Why the outrage?‘, published in London Review of Books, looks at the scandals surrounding Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump victory.
The ideology of Tory Brexit
‘What are they after?’, published in London Review of Books, explores the thinking and psychology behind Tory Brexiteers.
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