My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

A few weeks into our one year of funded Mandarin language study in Taiwan! We feel extremely blessed to be given the chance to learn a language that we've yearned to acquire, all while living and breathing it in a very special place. To a year of Chinese, tea, and badminton!

I interviewed Flint Taylor, Fred Hampton's & the Chicago Black Panther Party's, lawyer who helped uncover the CPD/FBI's role in his execution and the execution of other members. We discussed historical & present day policing issues in this piece: truthout.org/articles/50-...

Seems bad.

In a piece for @verfassungsblog.de I critique a recent Hamburg court decision that Marx is an enemy of the German constitution. (English translation out soon)

Israel is conducting airstrikes on Gaza City. Earlier they targeted an internet distribution site there and are trying very hard to prevent news from getting out.

here’s the full discussion on the tasks of literary criticism! on a paper of Leo Löwenthal’s—ft. Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Schachtel, Pinthus, Soudek 🔗 ⬇️

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio) theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/models-of-...

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

Handing over the hosting of @iliasalami.bsky.social from USyd - thanks to @garethbryant.bsky.social - to UQ - thanks to @shaharhameiri.bsky.social and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social with this piece of his on state capitalism as your catch up reading.

'Today, the opacity of the mechanisms by which sanctions work secures the impunity of those who impose them' - Jessica Whyte (2023)

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages! hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

A fascinating exploration of Chinese reception of Egyptian antiquity by our visiting fellow Tian Tian!

Now online: 'Geert Reuten: A Fond Recollection' by Marcel van der Linden.

Have you been waiting for the #CalledToTheBar take on the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change? Of course you have! And it's out! In it @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with @mwewerinke.bsky.social and Dylan Asafo, both advocates in the proceedings - soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

"No-one takes responsibility," says Shim Jin-tae, an 83-year-old survivor. "Not the country that dropped the bomb. Not the country that failed to protect us. America never apologised. Japan pretends not to know. Korea is no better. They just pass the blame - and we're left alone."

Coming March 2026

Is the human being by nature good or evil? And what does this imply for a theory of post-revolutionary political institutions? Big questions and some tentative answers in my newly published article:

RP2.19 out now! Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose FTC Manning on real abstraction Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani Interview with Sophie Lewis Paulin Hountondji obit www.radicalphilosophy.com

Jeremy Kessler's 'The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought' presents a series of vignettes which capture five moments of Marxist encounters with authoritarianism: 1. Marx & Engels 2. Lenin & Luxemburg 3. Pashukanis & Stuchka 4. Neumann & Bloch 5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22: I. Andante sostenuto. [I hear the birth of the cosmos springing to life through this piece of music]. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYS...

Very honored to have been asked to contribute to this Endnotes dossier on Schmitt and Korsch.

Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:

Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan - Cambridge University Press, January 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

"Living in Gaza now requires a choreography of absence. We don’t walk; we drift. We don’t eat; we search. We don’t sleep; we remain alert, ears tuned to the sound that will send us running. Survival is a ritual of adaptation in a world that offers none" – Alaa Alqaisi www.e-flux.com/notes/678338...

Thank you to the International Society for Public Law ( @icon-s.bsky.social), and the prize committee, for this recognition. @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

Now available for preorder - Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys

New MIH Issue: An aesthetic approach to intellectual history? Introduction to MIH Forum “Isaiah Berlin and the Aesthetics of Liberalism” by Joshua L. Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social and Sarah Collins

Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism, trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine's Press, July 2025 www.staugustine.net/978158731392...

The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.

Clare O'Farrell is beginning a series of commentaries on the interviews in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion/VRIN/INA, 2024. clare-ofarrell.com/2025/07/29/f... clare-ofarrell.com

Excited to get into Ethan Kleinberg's new contribution! Confronting the epistemic challenges posed by conspiracy theories, revisionism and post-truth claims, Kleinberg traces a historiography adequate to the peculiarities of our present.

Du Bois at the beach. 😎

“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Ute Wittstock, Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, trans. Daniel Bowles - Polity, May 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

On Sunday, Israeli forces killed 115 Palestinians in Gaza as 19 people starved to death.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Now up: partial reconstruction of Horkheimer’s lost Spring 1945 INTRO (lol) seminar for Columbia’s Socio Dept, “National Socialism & Philosophy”—transcripts of minutes from 4 lectures on “Authority of the Epoch,” “Natural History of Belief,” “Mimesis & Civ,” & “Idolatry” 🔗 ⬇️

Frantz Fanon would have been 100 years old today! Although I love his two classic works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, I encourage you all, on his birthday no less, to get to know Fanon better. Read his letters, his psychiatric writings, his speeches and his plays!

It's exhilarating to see de Beauvoir's existentialism getting taken seriously again. Ever since reading Ethics of Ambiguity in my undergraduate years, I have been convinced of its absolute centrality for navigating the complexities of political and personal life, despite the fashionable criticisms.

When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?

Today we celebrate Herbert Marcuse's birthday, who was born in Berlin in 1898. Best known as a member of the Frankfurt School, throughout his work Marcuse developed a radical critique of technological society in books such as "One-Dimensional Man" (1964) and "An Essay on Liberation" (1969). 1/

When I set about seriously investigating G.W.F Hegel's youth in Stuttgart, Hegel-Studien, the scientific journal attached to the Hegel-Archiv and the modern critical edition project, served as an indispensable treasure trove for my research. It's an honour to finally be published in its pages!

"Kojève – the Russian-born philosopher of mastery and recognition, the French diplomat, the spy, prophet, and photographer of the end of history – has entranced and mystified intellectuals of the Left and the Right. In this towering biography, Filoni sets the discussion on entirely new ground."

Going to be published early August (in Italian). Critical edition of Claudio Napoleoni's #Smith #Ricardo #Marx with all the essays of 1st & 2nd edition + published essays 1971-74 + 100 pgs of unpublished notes from the Archive. www.edizionipgreco.it/libro/978886... #value #crisis #economicpolicy

The 20th of July will mark the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's birth In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria

Durian check 😏