Interview with Dan Hind and Tom Mills, exploring Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the news agenda.
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.
Review of Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress reviewed in The Guardian.
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.