Just opened: 2 calls for positions in political theory in the "Moralizing Politics" project led by C. Rostbøll @ucph.bsky.social 1️⃣PhD Scholarship, "The Dignity of Work": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... 2️⃣PhD Scholarship, "Cancel Culture": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... ⏰ April 13

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The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

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Our PopGov project is live! 📣 We’re recruiting 3 Postdocs at @UCLouvain! 🌍 Help us to disseminate the call! 🙏

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

I just finished @manongarcia.bsky.social's Living with Men. I highly recommend, though it's disturbing and challenging stuff. What it captures, and refuses to dispel, is a sense of being genuinely adrift if you refuse to flinch from what you on some level know must be true of many men around you.

Philosopher @nippleslipple.bsky.social has one of my favourite websites in the discipline just for this (emilytilton11.wixsite.com/website/disa...).

My review of "Citizen Marx" by @brunoleipold.com and "Marx's Ethical Vision" by @vcwills.bsky.social is out. Good books both. With @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/8313-2/

If this Most Cited List (from a Leiter post earlier this year on political philosophy books with over 4000 citations) is right then it's wild just how hard liberalism is winning in political philosophy. Total ideological domination.

"Marxism in our Time" is our podcast spotlighting the authors and books shortlisted for each year's Deutscher Prize. We hope to launch a new series later in 2026. In the meantime, you can catch up with the most recent set of interviews below... 1/4

Reviewed in today's @faznet.bsky.social which (somewhat oddly) for a bourgeois paper comes to the defence of petty bourgeois proper www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

@brunoleipold.com's book was an interesting intellectual history of how Marx developed his ideas in dialogue with republicanism. Particularly lucid analysis of the connection between domination and exploitation in chapter 5.

Now reading, featuring @brunoleipold.com

Classic dominant-class move to treat class and other identity categories as little knobs you can switch off and on without changing any other variables and then cry about the one or two knobs that aren’t positioned in your favor

This post on "dual class origins" of Labour MPs is interesting cos it highlights that many in the UK have a notion of class wherein one can "inherits" one's class, so if one had working class parents one is therefore still working class even if one is presently, say, an Oxford educated barrister!

The British self-understanding of class is wild www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Just finished @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought - easily one of the best books I’ve read in recent years. Well-researched but also super timely and generative (see: No Kings). Read it. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Just finished first door knocking for the Greens. Honestly most hopeful I’ve felt about politics in a while. Felt good to not just sit watching the world burn (as I’ve been feeling the last months) and instead try to do doing something with others (even if very small)

📣 Call for Abstracts! Excited to be among the organisers of the 12th annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory (28-29th May)! Submit abstracts here: forms.gle/ccfeNR21Pn3Y... Please share among colleagues and fellow PhD Students!

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

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Fantastic @biapt.bsky.social conference in beautiful Edinburgh with five great keynotes, some snow, and three LSE colleagues. @brunoleipold.com @kspiekermann.bsky.social and Leigh Jenco.

My new book now out on line with OUP Academic - hard copies available from 22January Defending the Political Constitution url: academic.oup.com/book/61802

An incredibly generous and extensive review by @louismosar.bsky.social setting out how Citizen Marx fits within the broader "radical turn" in republicanism academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Talked to Pierre-Etienne Vandamme for @revuepolitique.bsky.social about republicanism, Marx and his time in Belgium www.revuepolitique.be/entretien-po...

Wonder why it is that political theorists tend to read out their papers while philosophers do handouts and political scientists do slides

Recording available here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It’s simple: the US has waged a decades-long economic war on the Venezuelan people since Hugo Chávez nationalised the oil, because Venezuela insists its natural resources belong to its people, not Chevron.

If you’re by a radio today I’ll be talking about Marx with Naomi Alderman at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4

uh holy SHIT?

funding lotteries have been waiting for this moment

Fellow academics, don't forget to report your side-hustles to the proper authorities

does this mean you have to report if you a CIA operative working to kill the rev? asking for a friend

Totally random fact I learned today: the IRS asks you to report income from bribes, drug dealing and theft

The 12 most popular posts on LSE Review of Books in 2025 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

My review of Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com made it into the top 12 of the LSE Review of Books for 2025. Still an amazing book for those doing frantic last-minute Christmas shopping today! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

maybe it’s time for a new guy www.ft.com/content/9f89...

Johannes Agnoli on preferring to publish shorter interventions and essays: 'reading takes time, time during which Habermas writes'.

CFP: “Speech and Politics” with Miranda Fricker. Sciences Po. 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory (2026) CFP: "Speech and Politics" with Miranda Fricker Sciences Po's 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory Submission deadline: January 31, 2026 Conference date(s): May 27, 2026 - May…

Come for the grumpiness, stay for the insight. Many gems in Alicia Steinmetz’s interview with Raymond Geuss. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

How did Marx develop his revolutionary ideas? My latest book review looks at @brunoleipold.com's extraordinarily stimulating new book "Citizen Marx: Republicanism & the formation of Karl Marx's social & political thought". My book of the year. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2025/12/brun...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Die PDFs von "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe", Band 1-7: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

In our latest Centre for Democratising Work interview, Amelia Horgan spoke to @brunoleipold.com about his book, CITIZEN MARX, and Marx and republicanism. Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...

📢 #PoliticalTheory scholars, tell us about the best recent book by a first-time writer in the field 📚 #ECPRPrizes Nominate for the £450 🏆 Political Theory prize co-sponsored by the Contemporary Political Theory journal ⏳ 9 Jan buff.ly/1FHPpmr #AcademicSky #PoliSky

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

How do we develop a politics of self-emancipation? Andreas Chari offers some brief thoughts on the mass party, programme and republicanism. prometheusjournal.org/2025/12/10/f...

This is a great article and I'm happy to see it in print! A really helpful contribution to ongoing debates about what we might salvage from radical feminist thought.