📢 New Blog Reflections on a recent roundtable by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Emily Jones (Emily Jones), and Glory Liu (Glory Liu), on 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/roundt…

Keith Michael Baker - Jean-Paul Marat Prophet of Terror À paraître en novembre aux UCP

Liberalism is in crisis, or so we often hear. But this isn't the first time. My latest in AJPS investigates the Nobel economist F.A. Hayek's response to the interwar crisis of liberalism via his interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Greg Conti: “In what sense did liberalism abandon morality in the previous century?” journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Bad but good

Wonderful to see Paul Kelly’s book and my own on post-liberalism in Polity’s 2025 catalogue. Really looking forward to it coming out (though not wishing away the summer). Polity Patrick Deneen Sohrab Ahmari Matt McManus Alexandre Lefebvre Kevin Vallier

Political theory/philosophy job at our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/a…

Giving a talk alongside a bunch of great people at ULB next month

This will be fantastic by Arthur Ghins--one of the best there is on the history of liberal thought in France: "The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy": cambridge.org/core/books/peo…

On 17/06 Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and I organize a book workshop on Bruno Leipold's 'Citizen Marx' at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven. Of interest to those within the Benelux working on republicanism and Marxism. Email me: [email protected] hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/events/…

I reviewed Quentin Skinner’s new one thenation.com/article/archiv…

A couple of years and a The Leverhulme Trust research fellowship in the making, I am excited to see that my book on post-liberalism is now available to pre-order. amzn.eu/d/aaU5L2S

What a fine day this is to be able to share my first, finished copy of my new book, The Second Emancipation, pre-orders available, out in August.

🔊 Episode #1 out now! Intellectual Historian Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) explains why the Enlightenment, 18th century republicanism and the history of free states matter for today’s global politics. Listen and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

How have politicians been imagined, criticised or idealised across modern European history? We tackled this question in The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe. Finally materialising, out December 2025! Berghahn History berghahnbooks.com/title/Ihalaine…

Just out Political Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his work in the North Atlantic in the early 20th century bit.ly/453otes

📢 We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy AUP for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts + help launch a “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 [email protected] #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law

🚨Job Alert 🚨 My department is hiring! We are advertising for three positions, including an open-subfield Assistant Professor with a focus on "Problems of Democracy," for which political theorists will be considered. DM / email me your questions! uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192118