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On 25 April, we are hosting Simone Chambers who will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Is there a Future for Deliberative Democracy? Democratic Theory in the Age of Oligarchs, Autocrats, and Patriarchs’. Sign-up to attend here: tinyurl.com/yc2vewf6

Paul Lewis's funeral is being held today at KCL. For any colleagues and friends who would like to do so, you can leave your thoughts at this link: tinyurl.com/36b5b3ej

The back cover endorsements for my Foucault and Liberal Political Economy - coming in June.

Paul Sagar defends Bernard Williams’s account of the relativism of distance – just published in the European Journal of Philosophy: doi.org/10.1111/ejop.1…

The print version is out in June but Foucault and Liberal Political Economy is now available online at Oxford Academic via your library. tinyurl.com/47rxfadp

Print release in June, but Mark Pennington's new book on Foucault is now available in online format at Oxford Academic: tinyurl.com/47rxfadp

🚨 New publication🚨 Dr Paul Sagar offers a defence of Bernard Williams and the Relativism of Distance in a new article for EJP 💭 Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

A new opportunity ideal for recently completed PhDs to work on a project with CSGS/KCL on 'Market Economies and Green Ideals' which engages rival conceptions of market systems with sustainability related challenges: tinyurl.com/33e878hr

New Research Article: Why go local? Developing the research agenda for “local political theory” - Marta Wojciechowska, Marta Wojciechowska James Hickson, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

I am thrilled to have a chapter ("The Family-State Analogy in the Mengzi") in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy edited by Justin Tiwald (global.oup.com/.../the-oxford…). I am particularly proud that an Arabic name has made it into the list of authors of such a volume on China.

🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments? A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power. More 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Excited to have joined Renewal as a contributing editor and have an interview with John Ganz in the relaunch issue

I have an essay out in Cincinnati Review about my memories from the south of Lebanon--if you wonder what that part of the world is like.

Robin Douglass’s new article on Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith in Political Theory, analysing their ideas on pride, persuasion, and love of dominion: doi.org/10.1177/009059…

I'll be speaking about the case for a 'post-modern liberalism' at this Vinson Centre event on July 7. A great line up including Deirdre McCloskey, Paul Dragos Aligica, and Phil Magness. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/bdh5junv

🆕 A groundbreaking project which will explore the relationship between market economies and environmental ideals has been awarded funding from a leading foundation 🌏💡 Learn more about the project, led by Mark Pennington and Roberto Fumagalli, here 👇 kcl.ac.uk/news/funding-c…

It was fun to appear on Fabio Rojas's Temple of Sociology podcast speaking about Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Just 2 weeks before it is unleashed on the world. Podcast link here: tinyurl.com/mtwdayxn

Seymour Drescher is one of the most eminent scholars on Alexis de Tocqueville. For his 90th birthday, Ewa Atanassow and Jeremy Jennings wrote an appreciation 📚⬇️ muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

Pleased to say that I’m joining KCL Department of Political Economy King's Political Theory Research Group this September. Sad to leave an exceptional community of political theorists at York. Looking forward to the next phase.

Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge and Freedom has been released in the USA today: