Review essay on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, published in London Review of Books.
‘Generation anxiety’
‘Thomas Piketty’s failed revolution’
An essay for Unherd, reflecting on the significance and impact of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one decade on from its publication.
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
‘The business-lounge intellectual’
Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
‘Fascism’s liberal admirers’
Review essay on Clara Mattei’s The Capital Order, published in The New Statesman
‘Destination unknown’
Review of books by Mike Savage, Gurminder Bhambra & John Holmwood and Thomas Piketty, published in the London Review of Books, which considers the relationship between sociology and history in the present global conjuncture.
Extract from Unprecedented?
Unprecedented?: How Covid-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy is published this week, co-authored by me and three colleagues in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths. You can read an extract from the book in the new issue of The New Statesman here.
How did we get here? – RSA dialogue
In advance of the publication of This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain, I discussed the themes of the book with Katrina Forrester, hosted by the RSA.
Interview with New Humanist about the crisis of liberalism
I discussed my forthcoming book This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of British Liberalism with New Humanist, reflecting on the book’s historical perspective and political implications.
Review of Head Hand Heart
I reviewed David Goodhart’s new book, Head Hand Heart, for The Guardian
Review of The Twittering Machine
I reviewed Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine for the Guardian.
Podcast on the crisis of expertise
The Critical Theory blog has a new podcast, The Order of Things. This interview explored themes of the rise of and challenges to expertise, discussed in Nervous States.
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
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