We are looking to appoint 2 Lecturers in Political Theory. The positions are open to all subfields of political theory (please note: you need only apply for one of the advertised posts to be considered for both): kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-le…

More jobs! We are also looking to appoint a Lecturer in PPE with a focus on the history of political economy and/or economic thought: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108485-le…

It's an amazing and unifying time for hack writers who decided to bandwagon on culture war bullshit to hide their lack of original ideas.

These are acts of disruptive disobedience as a form of protest. They are meant to inconvenience others. But it's a time honoured American tradition to worry more about minor disruption and inconvenience rather than the brutal militarism the protests are drawing attention to.

Yes, America has never engaged in panicked purges of academia in its history

It was a mistake because the moral panic over the fake threat to free speech posed by censorious college students is now predictably being used to justify actual violations of free speech by coercive state power, i.e. what the 1A was meant to protect against in the first place.

My book is here! Thank you so much to UChicagoPress for making sure it arrived in time for Organization of American Historians roundtable tomorrow. Excited, grateful, and a little nervous to hear what gabrielwinant Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Julie Greene, and David Brundage have to say about it.

Lmao gone full trump, she used to try to be a reasonable centrist. Wonder what the next wagon will be.

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

New paper from Sam de Canio and Colin Jennings shows that competition functions like an experiment to reveal consumer preferences - and so neoclassical welfare economics has too narrow an understanding of the harms of monopoly

Out now - John Ganz (John Ganz) has republished his interview on the genealogy of Trumpism with Steven Klein on his Unpopular Front substack unpopularfront.news/p/interview-wi…

Our academic, Dr Steven Klein has joined the journal Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy as a contributing editor 📝 In the latest issue, Dr Klein interviews American writer John Ganz on 'the genealogy of Trumpism'. You can find it here 👇 renewal.org.uk/articles/the-g…

My daughter Iris is fundraising for Haven House Children's Hospice for her bat mitzvah. Check out their JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! justgiving.com/page/iris-melt…

Keir Starmer’s politics promise sober realism over ideological grandstanding. Yet, as Steven Klein argues, this pragmatic turn risks sliding into bureaucratic paralysis. Drawing on Max Weber’s famous lecture Politics as a Vocation, Klein explores why true political leadership

Do citizens have the political capabilities required for democracy? Yes, but it also matters which democratic values we are talking about. With Ethan Porter in the British Journal of Political Science

Our academic, Steven Klein, and co-author Ethan Porter challenge the view that ordinary citizens are not competent enough to sustain democracy in an article for British Jnl Poli Sci 🗳️ Read more ⬇️ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Sorry but this conflation is anti Semitic nonsense