Enlightenment Now: The Case for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress reviewed in The Guardian.
Review of Steven Pinker
Mental Health & Neoliberalism
Speaking at a panel session with Ruth Cain and Jay Watts, hosted by New School Economics at Goldsmiths, January 2018
Interview about writing with The Browser
Discussing writing with Robert Cottrell, as part of the Browser’s ‘writers we admire’ series of interviews.
‘The Neoliberal Spirit of Populism’ – 8th February
I’ll be giving a lecture, ‘The Neoliberal Spirit of Populism‘, at Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Berlin, 8th February 2018. This is part of a series of lectures, Great Crisis of Capitalism – A Second Great Transformation?
Interview with the State of Nature blog, discussing happiness, wellbeing and the culture of neoliberalism.
Mental health and neoliberalism
‘Post-press politics’
In conversation with Tom Crewe about recent London Review of Books articles, published as an LRB Podcast, 2nd August 2017
Politics, Power, Change – Novara FM
Discussion with James Butler and Eleanor Penny, broadcast 14th July 2017.
‘Who gains from big data?’ – NEF podcast
Interview recorded 13th July 2017.
What is “neo” about Neoliberalism?
Article in New Republic, excerpted from new edited collection, Liberalism in Neoliberal Times, published by Goldsmiths Press
Review of ‘The Rise of the Outsiders’
The Rise of the Outsiders by Steve Richards, reviewed for Guardian Books
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.
Reasons for Corbyn
The coincidence of the Corbyn surge with the horror of Grenfell Tower has created the conditions – and the demand – for a kind of truth and reconciliation commission on forty years of neoliberalism. It is too simple to cast Corbyn as a throwback, but it is undeniable that his appeal and his authority derive partly from his willingness to cast a different, less forgiving light on recent history, so that we don’t have to carry on repeating it.
‘Outnumbered! Statistics, data and the public interest’
Talk given at CRASSH, Cambridge, 1st June (begins at 27 minutes)
‘The New Digital Elites: neoliberalism, technocrats and their failures’
Talk given to Goldsmiths MFA programme, 16th January 2017
William Davies 