JOB! We're hiring a Lecturer in Philosophy on a 2-year fixed-term contract (partly to cover my teaching over the next few years). Please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

One way to parse @adamprz.bsky.social's "democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" is as statement about competitiveness and its role in actualizing the benefits of representative democracy. This trend, even if it didn't feed proto-authoritarianism is, thus, Very Bad.

Presenting my work on institutional power and the sexual sphere at @manchester.ac.uk Centre for Political Theory today! This is part of my book project on what justice in this domain requires beyond mere noninterference

📚 If you're thinking of pre-ordering my book The Technocratic International - out with OUP next week - here's a discount code! 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Almost a week until this event!

I wrote about the coming Iranian-American talks in Pakistan, the role of Vance and Ghalibaf; and how the talks could change Iran. Let me know what you think! www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

For Orbán and his allies, much is at stake beyond losing political power:

The Political Economy of National Identity: a chapter with Moses Shayo for the Handbook of the Economics of Identity. We review econ & pol‑sci research on how national identities shape trade, welfare policy, conflict, and polarization. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

At @promarket.bsky.social, @samuel-bagg.bsky.social and Shai Agmon argue that competition policy should pay greater attention to friction between competitors, an insight that favors the neo-Brandeisian approach over the traditional consumer welfare approach.

Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for highlighting my blog post with @shaiagmon.bsky.social in their weekly roundup! The post draws from our chapter in a new book on Democracy and Competition, which I co-edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

My and @henrikdku.bsky.social paper on regulating AI is accepted in Journal of Business Ethics! We argue for domain specific theorising and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are better understood as participants in the traffic institution than as trolleys, for example.

In any case, both the chapter and the shorter blog post draw on @shaiagmon.bsky.social's seminal work distinguishing between parallel and friction competition. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Fantastic stuff from @shaiagmon.bsky.social and @samuel-bagg.bsky.social #PolTheory #EconSky

What kind of "competition" should competition policy promote? In a new post, @shaiagmon.bsky.social and I argue that friction btw competitors is key to realizing the social benefits of competition. Yet we routinely ignore it when designing competitive institutions. www.promarket.org/2026/03/18/e...

Hey #poltheory and #polisky folks, check out this new book on Democracy and Competition from @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social, which I edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social - www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Pratade med @efntv.bsky.social om min forskning 💕📱 efn.se/marknaden-fo...

📚 Out with OUP this summer: "Experts in a Turbulent World" 📚 An edited volume that connects historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of experts in international organisations. 1/3 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.

Such a treat to speak with @volts.wtf about social identity and the epistemic crisis. David is really sharp and does a fantastic interview - no small feat to make a plodding academic sound like a lively conversationalist! Highly recommend the podcast to anyone (like me) who didn't know it before.

Best Reads of 2025. I flagged Laura K. Field's Furious Minds.

Combat your broligarchy-induced despair & pre-order Democratizing AI here (or convince your university library to order it 😉): www.amazon.com/Democratizin...

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >> www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...

Who protests against democratic backsliding? A new working paper with Margalit, Sheffer and Yakir examines this issue and finds that people’s conceptions of what democracy means play a crucial role in predicting whether they engage in active opposition to backsliding efforts. osf.io/preprints/so...

The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >> www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...

Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere By Elsa Kugelberg, University of Oxford The online dating application has in recent years become a major avenue for meeting potential partners. However, while the digital public sphere has gained the attention of…

Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7... Please circulate widely!

Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!

On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’

‘What passes for post-liberalism today is either pernicious or impotent.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Update: free copy available within the next 14 days, CUP tells me! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory

My paper on institutions and intimacy now got its @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue number 📚 ⌨️ !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

Just posting a link to the recent French translation of my An Introduction to Political Philosophy, first because I'm very pleased to have a French edition, and second, because I like the cover so much. eliotteditions.fr/44-introduct...

If you're nosey (like I always am), you can find the schedule here. And if you'd like to read the draft paper, just let me know! oxfordstudiespoliticalphilosophy.sbs.arizona.edu/oxford-studi...

Join us for symposium on our book Human Rights at Work (with @thebigbogg.bsky.social, H Collins, ACL Davies) on 5 November, at the Bonavero Institute, Oxford, with Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Claire Darwin KC & Kate O' Regan. Chaired by @marijajovanovic.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Officially published today! Link in Alt Text. (Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)

This is a brilliant and important paper that deserves wide attention — relevant for political theorists, political scientists, and civil–military scholars alike. It tackles one of the most neglected questions in the study of democratic backsliding: its relationship with the military.

Get thee (me) to the Beinecke… www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The excellent @shaiagmon.bsky.social

Just spoke to @euronews.com about the Trump deal to end the Gaza war. Here are the main points I made 🧵: 1. Trump should have formally brought in the Palestinian Authority as part of both the negotiations and the implementation. >>>

And that's a draft

Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup. @ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.

Looks like the Department of Philosophy at Stanford has a second open rank faculty position open to all areas of philosophy Stanford University 31 Oct 2025 11:55 PM PT #philsci #philsky #philjobs