Maybe this account of why the BBC is cutting public events staff also explains why its website is full of American celebrity news. Depressing.

Adam Kadlac, author of The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life, in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Looking good at the Polity stand today in Oxford @pjthinker.bsky.social & @mattsleat.bsky.social

Raymond Geuss's *Tracks in Chaos*. Now in the warehouse and available in the UK on 10 April.

Crucial background for the current conflict. Hamid Azizi's *Axis of Resistance*. Due in May in UK/Europe, summer in US.

Does strategic bombing, like in Iran, achieve major policy goals? The record is not good. John Arquilla's timely book about what the US gets wrong when it goes to war. Due in the US in June.

A great review of Gerald Garutti's *Watch Your Words*, a crtitique of our contemporary abuse of language (not least on social media like this). ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/cg4a97lz...

Proofs are in for Glyn Morgan's prescient *Rise and Fall of American Europe*. Books due in late spring. Glyn analyses exactly the political choices that European leaders are now confronting with Trump's aggression over Greenland.

Published today in the UK, Matt Sleat's critique of post-liberalism.

Coming to bookstores in 2026. If you can't wait, the fall of American Europe is, of course, already available in reality.

Andrea Capussela on what we haven't learned from the financial crisis: www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...

Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...

FT on Alan Manning's new book: "Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning’s carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject." www.ft.com/content/9005...

Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better. 'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.

Out tomorrow, Alan Manning's Why Immigration Policy is Hard. People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart. -Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking. -Stephen Bush, FT

My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social) These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved: ‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...

How did Canada come to exist and how has it remained sovereign despite repeated overtures, some nicer than others, from the south? I'm delighted to say the great Robert Bothwell is writing a book for Polity on the subject. Due to be completed in the spring.

“A fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it.” Stephen Bush, The Financial Times

Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social

Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...

Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.

Kori Schake (The State and the Soldier) on The New Yorker's Political Scene. On Trump's domestic use of the military. podcast.https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-donald-trumps-war-from-within-mean-in-practice

Mentioned by Tim Harford in the FT today, Alan Manning's forthcoming Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.

Out later this month from Paul Kelly at the LSE.

Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening? Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words' Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1 At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...

Glenn Loury on The Nation podcast, talking about self-censorship: www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

Jens Beckert's How We Sold Our Future: www.greenhousethinktank.org/how-we-sold-...

Philip Kitcher's *Rich and Poor* in LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Publishing today: “Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!” Cornel West

Just a reminder to buy this book. Some of you haven't done so yet.

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Philip Kitcher on the decline of a public ethics of caring for the poor.

Despite Trump, an optimistic book about what's possible from one of America''s leading political economists of socialism, David Kotz.

Forthcoming in September (US). Robert Hockett's *Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance*

Ankit Panda at New Statesman: Welcome to the new nuclear age shows.acast.com/6b2fc9ba-b9b... via @acast

Branko Milanovic in Martin Wolf's Economics Books of the Summer (FT).

Delighted to see two polity books on the Best summer books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology list from @financialtimes.com 'How We Sold Our Future' by Jens Beckert and 'In Search of Green China' by Tianjie Ma www.ft.com/content/0f0b...

Out this week. Some prices change little in business cycles. Others vary wildly. Why? "Ought to change our thinking about... the management of inflation and recessions." - Robert Shiller "A must-read." - N. Gregory Mankiw "Full of new evidence, findings, and ideas." - Thomas Sargent

Due in the fall from Kori Schake, relevant already. "Will stand the test of time as our primary guide to understanding and evaluating civil-military relations in America. A uniquely compelling piece of work." --General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marine (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense

Look what arrived today! A fantastic read - years of reflections from our very own @brankomilan.bsky.social. @stone-lis.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

As opposition to DEI grows, it's worth recalling there's bad DEI that antagonises people, creates backlash, & fails on its own terms (DiAngelo-style stuff) & initiatives that work for all. Dobbin & Kalev are the experts & explain what to ditch and what to embrace. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Self-Censorship, now out in the UK: “Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual who usually says what he means and means what he says! In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls.” --Cornel West

Glenn Loury on universities and self-censorship: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Mark Carney made clear his fellow Canadians “weren’t impressed” when Britain offered Donald Trump a historic second state visit.

Truman Bewley's *Price Setting*. "Ought to change our thinking about... the management of inflation and recessions." - Robert Shiller "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the economy." - N. Gregory Mankiw "Full of new evidence, findings, and ideas." - Thomas Sargent

News from the old country. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Polity's new books in political economy and political philosophy, including Piketty & Sandel, Milanovic, T.M. Scanlon, Jens Beckert, Alan Manning, Daniel Cohen, Robert Hockett, Philip Kitcher. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/12107...

The French periodical *Books* reviews Ross Carroll's *Edmund Burke*: www.books.fr/edmund-burke...