I’m thrilled to be joining the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies as a Visiting Fellow next academic year!

📣 #BeyondNeoliberalism — updated site now live 📣 Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more. Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar @jayatighosh.bsky.social @hboushey.bsky.social and @drodrik.bsky.social. beyond-neoliberalism.org

On End Times Fascism: "We simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before. The 'end of history' swagger of the post-cold war era is rapidly being supplanted by a conviction we are in the actual end of times." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In honor of Trump putting 25% tariffs on auto imports & various opinions about that, sharing my feature from this month’s TNR on what the Trump administration could mean for legacy US automakers as electrification transforms the sector globally It's long so 🧵 1/ newrepublic.com/article/1921...

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

Is the #InternationalOrder on the cusp of change, or has it changed already, in what promises to be the #Asian century? 📆 Wed, 12 Feb 25, ONLINE 🕒 3pm🇬🇧 4pm🇪🇺 6pm🇹🇷 8.30pm🇮🇳 11pm🇨🇳 🆓 Reg/Speaker details: www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c... @jeromeroos.bsky.social @lseideas.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social

Excellent piece by @samuelmoyn.bsky.social: Trump “is the symptom of imperial decline who purports to be the cure … He and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it.”

Look who suddenly cares about intellectual property now: “OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.”

Great piece by Greg Grandin on the Trump 2.0 turn from isolationism to expansionism: “He is sending a clear signal that dominance, not mutualism, is the world’s new organizing principle and that the doctrine of conquest, thought to have expired, is still valid.”

Beautifully written and moving essay by @danhancox.bsky.social on the great Walter Benjamin:

When ppl try to tell Brett Christophers “markets” really are delivering the clean energy transition. www.economist.com/china/2024/1...

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

With the protests against massive spending cuts in the background, I wrote something on the state of Dutch higher education: alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/the-state-...

“Trump won the US presidential election on a platform that promised tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese-made goods. Further south, though, a new China-backed megaport has the potential to create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.” h/t @fdove.bsky.social

That China's carbon emissions are on course to fall this year is one of the most important and under covered stories of 2024 carbonmonitor.org/variation

Thank you China 🙏

Good point, I’ve been thinking the same lately. From Miliband to Poulantzas and back again! What I find especially interesting are the diverging pathways pursued by the Chinese and US states, with 🇨🇳 asserting the autonomy of the state against the billionaire class and 🇺🇸 virtually abolishing it.

“Since buying Twitter and rebranding it in a manner strangely reminiscent of a teenage boy painting his bedroom black, Elon Musk has been doing everything he can to make it a hostile environment for anyone to the left of Mitt Romney.”