Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE

Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty

There goes the ‘special relationship’. Colonialism 2.0

Trump’s focus on Venezuelan oil reinforces claim action was never about ‘war on drugs’

Delighted and grateful that the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute included my book in its 2025 must reads gdi.ch/en/publicati...

“The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter,” he added. “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the worst crime of all.”

‘Like Mark Antony minus the toga and brains, he struts and preens, cries havoc! and lets slip the dogs of war. ‘

So grateful for the #NHS. Appointment, diagnosis, treatment all in one day. No charge.

Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection

From the Booker to the Giller, the Kirkus to the Edgar, these books took home 2025’s biggest prizes in fiction.

Quakers in Britain hold all those affected by the horrifying antisemitic attack in Sydney in the Light.

Podcast on my @politybooks.bsky.social book, in St Andrews splendid @rbpodcast.bsky.social series. I discuss the links between classical liberty and P. Aghion's Schumpeterian theory, and pick from M. Wolf's and @brankomilan.bsky.social's reform programmes www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee

SURPRISE!

I am pleased to announce the book Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis by Markus Wissen and myself has been published with @politybooks.bsky.social. 🙏🏾 order copies for libraries, review the book, use it in teaching, and disseminate. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Intimacy can be joyous, but also confusing and socially constrained. The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships by Luke Brunning & Natasha McKeever reveals how philosophy can deepen our understanding of how we date, love, have sex, and form relationships. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary

“A marvel of narrative art … it’s the very best book I’ve read in quite a while.” Sara Dowse (@saradowse.bsky.social) reviews 'Marseille 1940' by Uwe Wittstock (@uwewittstock.bsky.social) for @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/perilous-ref...

Coming soon! In one month my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social will be published by @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Many people think they know what fairies are. Francis Young's book demonstrates that the truth about belief in fairies is far stranger than clichéd images of wings and wands. Get 25% off @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social's 'Fairies: A History' from Waterstones. Details ⬇️ waterstones.com/book/fairies...

"Are we going to abandon people whenever the rightwing press demands it?"

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

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✨ look what just arrived from @politybooks.bsky.social — fabulous translation of my dear colleague Bénédicte Savoy’s latest book Who Owns Beauty

'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says. Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

It is UK publication day for "The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life" (from @politybooks.bsky.social). I guess it's a strange time for a book about Disney to arrive in the world, but this project means a lot to me, and I'm really proud of it. www.wiley.com/en-ie/The+Ma...

Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, African Philosophies, trans. Matthew B. Smith - @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Turning to Disney in a World of Trouble www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...

“Exemplary philosophy...The profession needs exactly the sort of discussion to which this terrific book contributes.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews review 'Seeing Double' by Raymond Geuss ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/seei...

“a taut and much-needed introduction to the British philosopher-statesman that should be a starting point for any student in their initiation into Burke studies.” Ross Carroll's 'Edmund Burke' reviewed in The Review of Politics See more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...