I'm excited to share that the roundtable on my book Democracy Tamed has now been published in History of European Ideas. My response to essays by Dimitri Halikias, Danielle Charette James, & Greg Conti is below. Thanks also to Emre Gercek for the Introduction. tandfonline.com/eprint/MCNFUZT…

This article in thirdworldq examines how Mainland Chinese immigrants learn about their Chineseness as a sign of difference and how they apply the tool of racial capital to manage the ‘othering’ process (such as concealing Chineseness and reassessing Hong Kongers’ identity).

My review on Alexandre Lefebvre recent book , and the book Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, has been out in Political Theory. Both are great innovative philosophical works that explain how Rawlsianism can respond to some pressing problems nowadays. Strongly recommend! 👍

O filósofo canadiano escreveu um livro onde ensaia uma aproximação mais cultural do que política ao liberalismo, uma dimensão onde, na sua opinião, se pode encontrar uma “estrutura de personalidade”. publico.pt/2025/07/06/mun…

I had the pleasure of speaking with Teresa de Sousa for Público (Portugal’s leading daily) about the future of liberalism—and why I’m worried that we’re heading toward a divorce between liberalism and democracy. publico.pt/2025/07/06/mun…

Whoa! I didn't realize but I made the cover of Portugal's national newspaper!! There's my stupid beautiful face.

How has it never really hit me before that these two books were published within months of each other in 1932?

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

Great conversation with Samantha Hancox-Li for Liberal Currents. We talked less about the culture wars and more about liberal vs. non-liberal visions of the good life—and we pushed each other on points of disagreement, which made it all the better. liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberalis…

Big day for the Lefebvres!

I capital L love this review of my book by John McGowan for Perspectives on Politics. "Damn the torpedoes—your intellectualist nitpicking, your sophisticated anti-sentimentalism, your seen-it-all cynicism—and read this book." Perspectives on Politics bit.ly/4lqgUFw

Great review by Ming that beautifully weaves together books by me, Samuel Moyn 🔭 and Emma Planinc. " Liberalism Against Itself, Liberalism as a Way of Life, and Regenerative Politics each seeks to reshape liberal thought in original and fundamental ways."

Job! Continuing position (= tenure track) in political economy at Flinders University in Adelaide.

I did an interview with Sam Kahn for The Republic of Letters. Topics include: how I became a liberal, why you probably are too, what liberalism really is, and how to work Rawls into everyday conversation without sounding like a tool. republicofletters.substack.com/p/an-interview…

As a professor of politics + director of PPE at Sydney Uni, I call on Matt Thistlethwaite Allegra Spender Jason Clare MP Anthony Albanese to do what you know is right: scrap the Job-Ready Graduates scheme. It’s regressive, ineffective—and embarrassing. theconversation.com/top-australian…

Nice piece and I'd like to read his bio. The interview on NY Daily was touching. Liberalism of fear, 2025 edition theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Barriers to Entailment should be out in paperback on 22nd August (Nov 22nd in the US.) Available in all good bookshops, and some bad ones too. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Wow, terrific piece. This guy can write. Gradual Change is F***ing Awesome—And Liberalism Knows It persuasion.community/p/gradual-chan…

Hi Alexandre Lefebvre, just a quick note from Chile: there’s growing interest in your book here. This is the second review published on it. #LiberalismAsAWayOfLife