It has been a great workshop on the relations between empirical political and social science and normative political theory - and the view has been stunning!

The special issue on 'Ideal Principles, Real Behaviour, and Possible Experiments' that I have had the pleasure of editing together with ‪@jonathanfloyd.bsky.social has now been published in Res Publica‬. Check it out!

The introduction for the forthcoming Special issue on Ideal Principles, Real Behaviour, and Possible Experiments, which I have edited together with Jonathan Floyd, has now been published:

For the 21st year running, Res Publica: A Journal of Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy will be awarding a prize for the best paper by a current or recent postgraduate student. Submission deadline for the Prize is 30 April 2026. Read more on the journal webpage: link.springer.com/journal/1115...

The recent statements from President Trump and his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller concerning Greenland repeat claims made a year ago. My analysis in Ethics & International Affairs of the claims from Trump regarding Greenland still holds. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...

The recent statements from President Trump and his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller concerning Greenland repeat claims made a year ago. My analysis in Ethics & International Affairs of the claims from Trump regarding Greenland still holds. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...

📢 CfP 2026 ECPR Joint Sessions! Curious how normative theory and empirical research can inform each other — and keen for thorough feedback? Join our #ECPRJS26 workshop “Between Norms and Evidence” in beautiful Innsbruck, 7–10 April 2026 🌄 🔗 shorturl.at/BZbC0 📬 Deadline: 3 Dec 2025 @ecpr.bsky.social

Latest Res Publica: special issue on Rethinking Democratic Decision-Making: Integrating Deliberation and Voting. A great line-up of papers and authors. Well worth a look: link.springer.com/journal/1115...

How should we understand events like the public Quran burnings in Denmark and Sweden and the Danish law passed to stop them? Can the realism/moralism distinction in political theory be applied to such cases? The answers to these questions are connected, I suggest: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My contribution to a review symposium on @tariqmodood.bsky.social and Thomas Sealy’s The New Governance of Religious Diversity has now been published, where I offer a criticism of their category of moderate secularism with Denmark as a case. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

All you ever wanted to ask about toleration! "Making Sense of Toleration" includes interviews about toleration with a terrific group of people, including Charles Taylor, Peter Jones, Thomas Scanlon, Rainer Forst, Tariq Modood, Anna Galeotti and Emanuela Ceva. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

What is the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory? - and if empirical data are relevant to normative arguments, which data? I discuss these questions with a focus on Jonathan Floyd's normative behaviorism and Tariq Modood's normative sociology. rdcu.be/eeqYw