Join @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in Brussels in November for a workshop on the deplorable state of things and what can be done

Last event on this book in London, at least for a while. I’d love to see people there! howtoacademy.com/events/dont-...

Readings I've found useful for thinking about this recently: @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's Don't Talk About Politics & Malcolm Harris' What's Left

I’m doing a big online talk aimed at suburban women against Trump (but which is available to anyone I believe :-)) go.redwine.blue/0904tt-ssl

Great piece which I think should be read alongside James Kanagasooriam's piece on agency. Both come at things from a very different perspective, but reach similar conclusions. Alienation and a lack of agency are damaging the body politic. But also changing the way people are wired.

I've been really enjoying @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's argument against the whole concept of the "marketplace of ideas" in here 'Don't Talk About Politics' btw, would recommend!

So so so pleased that my piece on social atrophy is out in the Open Society Foundation’s The Ideas Letter. I explore ideas in the last book but take them further. I bring in a bit more Marx, and think about how alienation and neuroplasticity are related. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-pe...

Nice to be book of the day for @nextbigidea.bsky.social :) bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/debate-me-...

Much looking forward to this!

Has anyone written well about democratic deliberation and introversion?

Check out Part 2 of my terrific conversation with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social about her new book, Don't Talk About Politics! Watch, subscribe, buy Sarah's book! youtu.be/QlYzoC3UR_4?...

This is damn smart actually.

On the importance of the stickers (and graffiti) in your neighbourhood.

Happy to be featured in the Süddeutsche Zeitung today—and tickled by the paragraph where I immediately turn to late capitalism.

I think this post from @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social does a pretty good job explaining why the production/commodification of a kind of individual (a)communality implies the production of a particular kind of madness sarahsteinlubrano.substack.com/p/why-does-a...

i feel like this is how mainstream news and cultural affairs operates too. btw im in the 20% that agreed with her other video. it didn't make me mad. i jus thought 'yeah... i am miserable.'.

The 60-20-20 rule via @jamietahsin.bsky.social

Great episode from @davidmcraney.bsky.social and @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social on motivated reasoning when we think and debate politics. podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/y...

A bit surprising about what works (deep canvasing) and what doesn’t for changing minds (not protests!). Some feels quite intuitive - doing things together, relationships matters, action and agency, social infrastructure. And great to have a name for disconnection we’ve seen - social atrophy.

Thankfully just read the last sentences of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social excellent Don’t Talk About Politics ready for my non-fiction book group gathering this evening. The book is so helpful for many parts of my life in general (particularly how I think about the world) and my work in particular.

Sad? Mobilize!! The science is in…activism and advocating for justice brings more meaning and happiness to our lives. Let’s GO, joyful warriors! ✊🏼 (Good trouble lives on, July 17!!)

Why left-wing people are sadder (but activists are happier)

"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

This is nearly sold out! Book while you can.

Cloudflare, a tech company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, said Tuesday that it had rolled out a new setting that allows customers to automatically block A.I. companies from collecting their digital data.

"Farage exploits a diffuse sentiment that dishonesty is now the basic principle on which not only politics but also markets function." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Why might AI be making people delusional and paranoid? I look at the science behind this in a short post: sarahsteinlubrano.substack.com/p/why-does-a...

Recently heard the term “future nausea” and yeah that’s a lot of what I feel lately.

One take on why Mark Zuckerberg turned. More right wing billionaires have embraced a certain pseudo-libertarian willingness to govern during this administration, but Zuckerberg seems to have chosen to go rightward in order to the right *not* to have to govern. open.spotify.com/episode/3Pvs...

“Fewer books are going to be published. Some literary organizations won’t survive this.” For the LARB, I spoke with book publishers and lit mags impacted by Trump and DOGE's coup at the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...

Talking about politics doesn't change people's views on politics. However, meaningful relationships and actions can. @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, author of 'Don't Talk About Politics', explains. For the full episode: www.planetcritical.com/p/sarah-stei...

Absolutely loved this #PlanetCritical discussion with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social about the importance of building community to change people's minds & change the world. And I cannot recommend enough following @racheldonald.bsky.social for more equally insightful interviews.

niche intellectual history question: did Weber actually say using new terminology was like "using someone else's toothbrush?" if so, where?

I was more right about many things than I wanted to be! Thank you for reading :)

<3 yep.

Oh hey turns out Labour now getting pressure to do parts of what I recommended in Chapter 5 and 6 of my book: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m writing something about the apocalypse and you can come hear it on July 4: abneypark.org/upcoming-eve...

Max is prototyping a theory about three moods of fascism (on top of a convent in Palermo) #fascism #antifascism #activism

On (traditional) canvassing labourhub.org.uk/2025/06/02/i...

Don’t get stuck just being part of someone else’s techno-fascist, techno-capitalist theory of change.

Huge props to Tom for starting our food coop, and writing this article and also to Shiri and everyone at Cooperation Town

Why all movements need an anti-fascist angle with @maxhaiven.bsky.social

Fascist family artifacts

Fascism and the civil war in the middle class with @maxhaiven.bsky.social :

I am sorry Helen is in hospice and very grateful for her writing, which assures me always of the value of human life. open.substack.com/pub/helendec...

Book launch! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk alumna @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social on her new book, ‘Don’t talk about politics’. Join her for her upcoming launch event, Wednesday 4 June, at Blackwells, Oxford. More info and registration details below. bsky.app/profile/sara...

Sadomasochists and robots—Fromm’s Fear of Freedom