I’ve reviewed When the Clock Broke by John Ganz for the latest London Review of Books, asking how the rise of Trump might change what we consider to be a ‘model case’ of a crisis, and its correlates in the UK.
‘Repeal the 20th century’
‘Generation anxiety’
Review essay on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, published in London Review of Books.
‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
‘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.
‘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.
Review of Doppelganger
Review of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, published in The Guardian.
‘Peter Turchin’s empty prophecies’
Review of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin, published in The New Statesman
‘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.
‘The business-lounge intellectual’
Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
‘Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised’
Review of Stuart Jeffries new book, Everything All The Time Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern, published in The New Statesman.
Review of Gordon Brown’s book
I reviewed Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown for The Guardian
Review of new Thomas Piketty book
I’ve reviewed Thomas Piketty’s Capital & Ideology for The Guardian.
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
Review essay of Strangers in their Own Land
Published in International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, alongside a response from the author, Arlie Russell Hocschild.
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