This piece was given as the Annual Lecture at the Queen Mary Center for the History of Emotions.
Anger Fast & Slow
Interview on The Happiness Industry
Discussing The Happiness Industry with the Mad in America podcast .
Review of National Populism
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin reviewed in The Guardian.
Politics Theory Other podcast interview
Interview about Nervous States with Alex Doherty for the Politics Theory Other podcast. This is the second part of an interview on the book. The first part is here.
‘Against responsibility’
Review of Family Values by Melinda Cooper, published in London Review of Books.
Spectator Books podcast
I discussed Nervous States with Sam Leith, Literary Editor of The Spectator
Book excerpt: ‘How feelings took over the world’
An excerpt from Nervous States is published in today’s Guardian Review.
Five Books on ‘moral economy’
Interview with Five Books website, for which I selected the them of ‘moral economy’. The selected books are by Max Weber, Marcel Mauss, Albert Hirschman, Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello and David Graeber.
Nervous States – events
Upcoming events and discussions of my forthcoming book (more will be added as they are confirmed):
26th September – Blackwells, Oxford, in conversation with George Monbiot
29th September – Wigtown Book Festival
13th October – Ilkley Literary Festival
15th October – Waterstones Picadilly, London, in conversation with Tom Sutcliffe
14th November – Guardian Live, in conversation with Jonathan Shainin
21st November – Burley Fisher books, in conversation with Suzanne Moore
22nd November – Queen Mary Center for the History of the Emotions Annual Lecture
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.
