'European democracies are facing a pincer attack: externally taking fire from the US administration and Silicon Valley companies, internally from the European far right – with an overlay of crippling dependency on the US for security.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Plausibly, S Jenkins argues that we shouldn't be surprised of the attack on Venezuela: it follows a string of precedents that began in 1999, with 'the clearly illegal bombing of Belgrade'. What has changed is the rhetoric, which no longer mentions 'values' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love Bluesky. Trump conquers Venezuela. Israel destroys Gaza. Russia attacks Odessa. Stock market goes nuts about oil in Venezuela. China surrounds Taiwan. But, wait, on Tuesday, I have a presentation of my paper on delinquent credit clams in Urania in 1993.

“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.”

'Israel’s allies were slowly pushed into acknowledging and challenging the carnage in Gaza. They must not drag their feet again. It is not bad weather but bad faith that is the greatest threat to those now struggling to survive.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticise every rebellion, couldn’t metabolise Palestine. It still can’t.' www.equator.org/articles/how...

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

Economic decline doesn’t always lead to #populism. The local political climate acts as a filter. As Deppisch & @andreasklaerner.bsky.social argue in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, in some rural areas discontent leads to civic engagement. In others, it is a vehicle for revenge. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

In my book I cite him, Barbarossa's uncle, and an adversary of urban liberty

A picture of the discovery www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Two of the few remaining centre-left prime ministers in Europe (🇩🇰 & 🇬🇧) come together to write a joint op-ed on ... harder migration policy. A sign of the times. Most noteworthy for me is the call for ECHR reform, though with little detail on how it should be changed.

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...

On two recent books.

Stoke Newington bookshop, slim green book

'Gaza’s killing and misery grind on' www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Splendid text, by @newlefteviews.bsky.social, reviewing a book I haven't read, Beckert's, and one, @brankomilan.bsky.social's, which I would like to review www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

​Bel resoconto ​su @nosalpes.bsky.social della parte pubblica del summit @grandcontinent.bsky.social dei giorni scorsi: Trump e Putin aggrediscono 'il principio di libertà così come lo intendiamo proprio in Europa, ha detto con leggerezza e forza Andrea Capussela' nosalpes.eu/2025/12/04/i...

Qui parlo di tassa Zucman e idea classica di libertà: 'Assunta questa concezione, e date le condizioni attuali, la battaglia per la giustizia fiscale è una battaglia di libertà.' www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment... @marioricciardi.bsky.social @fabriziobarca.bsky.social @fsaraceno.bsky.social

Today presentation of my book at King's College Cambridge, 5.30 Keynes seminar room: www.instagram.com/p/DRZ50AcDBz2/

Artículo de un “think tanker” conservador estadounidense defendiendo a Franco, en el Wall Street Journal. El problema no son los jóvenes españoles. @marujatorres.bsky.social @mariaramirez.bsky.social @robiols.bsky.social

@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social hello Jonathan, maybe I told you that I was writing this, which has just come out, and maybe it can interest you: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

My new book is out @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

True freedom, @andreacapussela.bsky.social writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-called elite. 'The Republic of Innovation' shows how true freedom can foster a more innovative and prosperous society. More: ow.ly/aGxr50XvP5b

My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social) These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved: ‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...

'40 years on, the left has still to find an answer to the big bang in the 1980s.' In this book, out tomorrow, I suggest that a plausible answer might stem from combining classical liberty with Schumpeterian innovation: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'GDPR is Europe’s greatest weapon against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference. Diluting it now, in the shadow of Donald Trump, would confirm Europe as a digital vassal of the US' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.' Tunnels are underground too. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️ 🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw Read the review 👇 buff.ly/geSIAGY

Required reading: Sophie Bessis's essay on why the idea of Europe's 'judeo-christian' roots is 'une imposture': www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_civ... A brief interview with Bessis: youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...

'Europe’s overt submission to Trump is emblematic of a broader malaise...They also routinely placate far-right forces at home. In doing so, they corrode the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law [etc.] – that they claim to uphold.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.' Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity. After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ www.ft.com/content/11b9...

'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...

The richest capitalists & richest workers are increasingly the same people, writes @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social. Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.

Next to Dido Aeneas looks really bad. She is both heroic and human

Di fronte a Didone Enea davvero appare meschino. Che personaggio lei!

'Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover' Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

'Nobody knows how to reinvent 20th-century liberalism.' Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as... www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com

'For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The threshold for a #famine according to the IPC is very high. To get there the human suffering must be immense. Only months of lies about humanitarian access to #Gaza & extreme cowardice in Western capitals made this possible.

Tell me about her truth-telling on Gaza and the west bank

Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo: legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...

Great. Liberals must explain their vision of the good life and how to realize it - or condemn themselves to lose. newrepublic.com/article/1992...

Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo: legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...

This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Great idea: let Europe be represented before Trump by the person who acted most slavishly before him! This former UK diplomat suggests Rutte (or leaf-picking Starmer; the argument is fluency in English) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

50 for 1: this poor man spoke his mind. One would have been profoundly shocked to hear this in October 2023, but can one be equally shocked now? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Too late www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Choosing the right words. Read the 2024 ICJ opinion, saying that occupation is radically illegal and must end now, and then this @theguardian.com title. Should a big new settlement be described as 'highly controversial', or simply as 'illegal'? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...