Next week, 1/6 at 6:00pm EST, the Columbia Club DC and Busboys and Poets welcome @lkatfield.bsky.social for a discussion of her book Furious Minds, Trumpism, and the rise of the New Right on the anniversary of the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack. This is a ticketed, in-person event: buff.ly/Vt8s0sy

In Elites and Democracy, @hdrochon.bsky.social explains why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today. Available January 6 (3 March UK pub). Preorder your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliticalScience

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Let the depth of techbros' weirdness vis-à-vis politics & history never be underestimated .... Demis Hassabis, a primary architect of AI technologies today as well as the joint winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, directed and conceived this game in 2003: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

Elites and Democracy is out in the US on Jan 6!🎉 For once the @princetonupress.bsky.social Marketing team had a good idea 😜 Thanks to Fernanda Gallo, Richard Bellamy and John Medearis for the amazing endorsements!❤️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War - Oxford University Press, March 2024 global.oup.com/academic/pro... I missed this when it came out last year - thanks to Richard Ashby for the link. Shame about the price though.

My review of Camila Vergara’s brilliant book “Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic” is out in @criticalinquiry.bsky.social

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We are #hiring! PUP seeks a Publishing Assistant (Oxford, UK, Hybrid) who will be responsible for providing assistance to the Editorial, Marketing & Sales, Publicity, & International Rights teams. Applications will be accepted through Sunday 4 Jan. Apply today: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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the Department of History at the University of Toronto is searching for a historian of Ukraine at the associate/full professor level I am happy to answer any questions (or direct you to folks at U of T who can answer them if I can't) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Trademark hand gestures yesterday at the London IHR seminar, although this time with a prop! 💥

“The excesses of the second Trump administration would not be possible without the intellectuals who have gathered in the MAGA movement.” Read @lkatfield.bsky.social on her new book Furious Minds in the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

Reminder! Join us on Dec. 18 for a presentation of Anger, Fear, Domination. The author, Bill Galston, will be in conversation with Kristen Collins and Laura K. Field. You won't want to miss it! RSVP: tinyurl.com/y643my7w @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social @kristenrosec.bsky.social

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Still a few tickets available for tonight's event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social with Chantelle Lewis and Tumi Sotire to celebrate Chantelle and Jason's wonderful @princetonupress.bsky.social book We See Things They'll Never See: press.princeton.edu/events/chant... Hope to see you there!

IR job at Trinity College Dublin: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU769/a...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Whale: The Illustrated Biography by @ashadevos.bsky.social takes you out beyond our shorelines and into the depths, providing an up-close exploration of the life of the whale. 🐋 Available 6 Jan! Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Whales #Nature #PUPNature #ReadUP

Yii-Jan Lin, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration - @yalepress.bsky.social, November 2024 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Trademark hand gestures yesterday at the London IHR seminar, although this time with a prop! 💥

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

On Natasha Piano on Burnham's Machiavellians. open.substack.com/pub/digressi... With a shout out to @rbellamy.bsky.social @hdrochon.bsky.social

Entretien avec François Hartog (@grandcontinent.bsky.social, Association Paul Ricœur ; #skystorians) : www.associationpaulricoeur.org/blog/francoi...

Andrea Bardin, Marco Ferrari, Anaïs Nony and Gregorio Tenti eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon – @edinburghup.bsky.social, October 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Today! And feel free to come along even if the event says it's booked up...

Excited to be presenting my forthcoming book Elites and Democracy at the London IHR seminar tomorrow! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Written your first book in political theory and wondering if it might be worth a prize? Well why not give it a try... @biapt.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

🗣️ JOB! Professor of Political Theory and the History of Political Thought at Friedrich Schiller University Jena 📅 Deadline - 11 December 2025 berufungsportal.uni-jena.de?showProcedur...

The London Political Theory Network will have its annual Christmas drinks on 11 December with a talk by Katrina Forrester on “Social Struggles In and Against the State”. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lptn-katri...

It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Excited to be presenting my forthcoming book Elites and Democracy at the London IHR seminar tomorrow! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This is deeply wonderful (read the YouTube caption as well). Samuel Beckett's silent 'interview' for Swedish television upon winning the Nobel Prize (1969): youtu.be/hYwScABAciA?...

Carl Schmitt, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier - trans Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, @politybooks.bsky.social, December 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Fabulous Picassos @tate.bsky.social Modern

“Friends of God and Slaves of Men: Religion and Slavery, Past and Present” Kevin Bales and Michael Rota cup.org/4pMEEpg

Coming next spring! ”The Business of War in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region 1530–1765” Description in comments @profmurdoch.bsky.social @anulah.bsky.social

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

Sean Meighoo, Postcolonial Derrida - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-postcol...

🔎 Évènement : Panel - Fiscal Policy at a Crossroads Avec : - @gregclaeys.bsky.social - Dorothée Rouzet - Armin Steinbach - Modération : @philippasigl.bsky.social 🗓 Vendredi 28 novembre 2025, 10h–12h 📍 Salle Jean Jaurès, ENS – 29 rue d’Ulm, Paris 🇪🇺 En anglais Inscrivez-vous !

Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!

A BEST BOOK OF 2025 "Brimming with constructive criticism couched in a sympathetic depiction of its subject, this book is a showcase in producing outstanding and compelling biography that represents wider narratives and trends in history." 🎉🎉 Very happy to celebrate our new biography 🎉🎉

The new @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in IR" looks really great 👇 #HistIR journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

'The Master of Pembroke College Oxford, The Rt Hon Sir Ernest Ryder, is seeking an outstanding candidate to support with delivering a major externally funded research project: “Law and Democracy – Monograph on Standards in Public Life.”' www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPT086/m...

Fabulous Picassos @tate.bsky.social Modern

I’m excited about this DC event with @theihs.org, where I’ll be in discussion with Tom Merrill and Kevin Vallier!

Perrine Lachenal autour de Théories féministes (Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, dir. @editionsduseuil.bsky.social, 2025) : Pour une réinvention du monde (En attendant Nadeau) www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/12/02/t...