Very pleased to announce that Dirk Jörke and I have published a new article in the European Journal of Social Theory! It's open access, so you can read & download it for free.

New issue of The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Vol. 19, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social @bmstudebaker.bsky.social

This discussion between @varnvlog.bsky.social and @bmstudebaker.bsky.social is worth a listen.

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I'll be in Darmstadt for the next 6 weeks! If you're around and want to get a coffee, reach out

Finally got round to read it, it’s good, you should read it too.

My new book with Edinburgh University Press is out! How do legitimacy and ideology interface in old, embedded democracies where alternative political systems are unthinkable and pluralism runs deep?

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I have a new piece out for Aeon on Gandhi, adapting for a wider audience the article I published earlier this year in Economic & Political Weekly:

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I'm really excited to be part of this event next week in Geisa:

Please enjoy this photo of my tortoise taking a pleasant nap

Terribly interesting paralells here with the collapse of Young Hegelianism after 1843 in this piece from @bmstudebaker.bsky.social.