New Iris Murdoch Podcast episode! Reconsidering Jackson's Dilemma, thirty years on... soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

Keep an ear out for Miles Leeson on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week on the 22nd December - he'll be discussing Murdoch's poetry with some other fabulous guests! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.

"The study revealed high levels of anti-feminist sentiment amongst UK men, with 50 per cent endorsing ‘red pill’ rhetoric underpinned by misogynistic ideology."

Coming soon-ish (March 2026) to your favorite purveyor of fine reading materials.

This week I hosted some wonderful scholars for an interdisciplinary workshop on r*pe in law and culture. Thanks to @manongarcia.bsky.social @veragraf.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social and all the participants for making it such an enriching and encouraging exchange.

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

Der Chef der Konservativen im EU-Parlament, Manfred Weber, hat erneut seine Fraktion dazu gebracht, zusammen mit den Rechtsextremen ein Gesetz abzuschwächen. Anders hätte er keine Mehrheit erhalten. Mit dem bestehenden Gesetz sollten eigentlich Wälder weitwelt geschützt werden. Unglaublich!

Witkoff is much more than a useful idiot for Putin. He and Trump are deeply embedded in Russian syndicate networks. See, eg, the thread below or, @timothysnyder.bsky.social The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America threadreaderapp.com/thread/19933...

Join us for a webinar on Creative Europe's Circulation of European Literary Works call on 02 December at 11am. Supports projects that translate, publish, distribute, and promote European works of fiction. Register: tinyurl.com/yknuh8y5

A new biography shows how Schopenhauer’s philosophy of universal suffering might offer surprising grounds for hope. Schopenhauer’s philosophy of hope | Charlotte Stroud engelsbergideas.com/reviews/scho...

Nicht vergessen: Am 2.12. um 18.00 Uhr geht es im @gartenbaukino.at weiter mit den "Feminist Frames" und GIRLFRIENDS von Claudia Weill. Im Anschluss Gespräch mit the one and only Regisseurin, Autorin und Dramaturgin Kathrin Resetarits (and me). See you there!

Nicht nur heute »Mit Männern leben« von @manongarcia.bsky.social lesen! #TagGegenGewaltAnFrauen #OrangeDay

LGBT+ people face additional barriers when accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare. This study by the Guttmacher Institute explores contraceptive use and method within the LGBT+ community. Check out the findings here: www.guttmacher.org/article/2025...

Gender-affirming care saves lives

We were pleased to welcome as one of our key note speakers @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social who spoke about the work of the philosopher Mary Midgley. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

Lovely review of my new book @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

Heute ist der internationale Tag gegen Gewalt gegen Frauen. Geht auf die Straße, seid laut, seid solidarisch.

Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live. Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it

One of the many virtues of Rebellinnen der Philosophie is that it allows me to continue my series of impressive head gear sighted in Berlin #hume #germainedestael #beauvoir

Philosophical sighting in the #Berlin wild! Congratulations again to @kristingjesdal.bsky.social and happy day after World Philosphy Day! #angeladavis #zetkin #luxemburg #annajuliacooper #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory @dalianassar.bsky.social @skyecleary.bsky.social

Die Politik der „Demontage“ der Sozialhilfe spitze Probleme zu, statt Lösungen zu liefern, besonders in Steiermark, Oberösterreich und Niederösterreich. orf.at/stories/3412...

Hab jetzt 10 Mal gegoogelt um zu überprüfen, ob das echt passiert ist und wenn ich google noch trauen kann, dann eher schon.

Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century. If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Aesthetic Knowledge Free online from 19th November 2025 - 3rd December 2025 #philsky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Philosophy Bites podcast episode downloads to date: 49,752,393

Iris Murdoch's queer Poetry livesteven.com?p=32061

NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects. www.midnightsunmag.ca/eros-and-rev...

Want a famous desk previously owned by JRR Tolkien and Iris Murdoch (and before Tolkien C.S. Lewis, although they don't mention it here). You'd better have deep pockets...

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social . Two more to review. Katherine Mansfield a crafter of superlative short stories , Richard 1 a king whose legend was crafted by ingenious story tellers.

Brian Eno: "I'd like the whole taxation system to be fairer, which means rich people paying more tax and poor people paying less tax... people know that somethings wrong, they know that rich people don't pay much tax compared to their incomes"

@garyseconomics.bsky.social : "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger and a bigger share in economies with almost no growth and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"

Italy’s defense minister is urging the West to push back against a surge in Russian hybrid attacks, warning they could be “catastrophic.”

New article in Hypatia about how social power is conferred by citing, and what to do with creepy ethicists accused of professional sexual misconduct. 👀 The authors propose citing them, but including a note about the allegations. Bibliography as whisper network 💀 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

My latest paper has reached 1000 views 🎉 Find out why Schopenhauer’s argument for the worst of all possible worlds isn’t as bad as everyone says👇

Tomorrow! #philosophy #dundee

For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.

New Blogpost! Re-reading Iris Murdoch's early fiction. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/17/r...

Die Kessler-Zwillinge sind verstorben. Ich habe sie immer verehrt, vermutlich auch deshalb, weil ich mich ihnen als Zwilling auf absurde Weise verbunden gefühlt habe.

This book is genuinely unlike anything I’ve read before; it goes beyond the history of the beauty industry’s ties to war and extraction and interrogates bigger questions of desire, complicity, and resistance. The event is free and open to the public. Please come!! gender.stanford.edu/events/femin...

Arabelle Sicardi, one of the smartest beauty critics I know, is joining me this Wednesday, Nov 19 for a discussion online about The House of Beauty—their propulsive, ambitious, and surprising look at the beauty industry and its relationship to violence. Join us! gender.stanford.edu/events/femin...

Dänemark unterrichtet Empathie seit Jahrzehnten an Schulen. Das Ergebnis: Das Land hat eine der niedrigsten Mobbingraten in ganz Europa. Der Unterricht fördert soziale Fähigkeiten, die für das Wohlbefinden der gesamten Gesellschaft wichtig sind. 🫠 guterzweck.net/daenemark-un...

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Low, bright Sunday light feels like Kodachromes of distant relatives, BBC continuity cards of sun through frosty teasels, staticky folk records. Reminded me of this photo my dad took the day an adoption society worker arrived me with wrapped in her fur coat. Maybe I’m reluctantly writing about it

Perfect pastiche and genuinely beautiful in its own right

Imperialist, nationalist and homophobic Russia backs the far right in the West yet poses as a “fighter” against “Nazism.” Parts of the Western left and the so called Global South even believe it as long as it is against the West and Ukraine. #UN