A great review of Gerald Garutti's *Watch Your Words*, a crtitique of our contemporary abuse of language (not least on social media like this).
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January 20, 2026 at 10:23 AM
A great review of Gerald Garutti's *Watch Your Words*, a crtitique of our contemporary abuse of language (not least on social media like this).
ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/cg4a97lz...
ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/cg4a97lz...
Proofs are in for Glyn Morgan's prescient *Rise and Fall of American Europe*. Books due in late spring. Glyn analyses exactly the political choices that European leaders are now confronting with Trump's aggression over Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Proofs are in for Glyn Morgan's prescient *Rise and Fall of American Europe*. Books due in late spring. Glyn analyses exactly the political choices that European leaders are now confronting with Trump's aggression over Greenland.
Published today in the UK, Matt Sleat's critique of post-liberalism.
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Published today in the UK, Matt Sleat's critique of post-liberalism.
Coming to bookstores in 2026. If you can't wait, the fall of American Europe is, of course, already available in reality.
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Coming to bookstores in 2026. If you can't wait, the fall of American Europe is, of course, already available in reality.
Andrea Capussela on what we haven't learned from the financial crisis: www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
Andrea Capussela, what have we not learned from the Financial Crisis? — Institute of Intellectual History
Political economist Andrea Capussela discusses how a republican conception of freedom and Schumpeter’s idea of ‘creative destruction’ can converge to foster economic reform and innovation.
www.intellectualhistory.net
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Andrea Capussela on what we haven't learned from the financial crisis: www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
jacobin.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
FT on Alan Manning's new book: "Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning’s carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject."
www.ft.com/content/9005...
www.ft.com/content/9005...
Why Immigration Policy Is Hard — a guide to breaking out of the ‘infernal circle’
Economist Alan Manning takes a balanced, sometimes uncomfortable look at the costs, benefits and trade-offs of migration
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
FT on Alan Manning's new book: "Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning’s carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject."
www.ft.com/content/9005...
www.ft.com/content/9005...
Reposted by Ian Malcolm
Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better.
'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better.
'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
Out tomorrow, Alan Manning's Why Immigration Policy is Hard.
People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart.
-Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate
Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking.
-Stephen Bush, FT
People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart.
-Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate
Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking.
-Stephen Bush, FT
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Out tomorrow, Alan Manning's Why Immigration Policy is Hard.
People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart.
-Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate
Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking.
-Stephen Bush, FT
People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart.
-Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate
Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking.
-Stephen Bush, FT
Reposted by Ian Malcolm
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 ...
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 ...
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom, True freedom, Capussela writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-ca...
www.politybooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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 ...
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 ...
How did Canada come to exist and how has it remained sovereign despite repeated overtures, some nicer than others, from the south? I'm delighted to say the great Robert Bothwell is writing a book for Polity on the subject. Due to be completed in the spring.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How did Canada come to exist and how has it remained sovereign despite repeated overtures, some nicer than others, from the south? I'm delighted to say the great Robert Bothwell is writing a book for Polity on the subject. Due to be completed in the spring.
“A fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it.” Stephen Bush, The Financial Times
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“A fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it.” Stephen Bush, The Financial Times
Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social
Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government
J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.
Kori Schake (The State and the Soldier) on The New Yorker's Political Scene. On Trump's domestic use of the military. podcast.https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-donald-trumps-war-from-within-mean-in-practice
What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?
The President’s chilling vision of turning American military power inward.
www.newyorker.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kori Schake (The State and the Soldier) on The New Yorker's Political Scene. On Trump's domestic use of the military. podcast.https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-donald-trumps-war-from-within-mean-in-practice
Mentioned by Tim Harford in the FT today, Alan Manning's forthcoming Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Mentioned by Tim Harford in the FT today, Alan Manning's forthcoming Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.
Out later this month from Paul Kelly at the LSE.
October 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Out later this month from Paul Kelly at the LSE.
Reposted by Ian Malcolm
Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening?
Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words'
Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...
Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words'
Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...
Watch your Words - Gerald Garutti, at Heffers Bookshop
Join us on the evening of the 8th of October as author Gerald Garutti discusses his brand new book 'Watch your Words' at Heffers Bookshop
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening?
Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words'
Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...
Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words'
Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...
Self-Censorship, With Glenn Loury
On this episode of American Prestige.
www.thenation.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Jens Beckert's How We Sold Our Future: www.greenhousethinktank.org/how-we-sold-...
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
John Foster reviews an important and disturbing new book by German sociologist Jens Beckert.
www.greenhousethinktank.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Jens Beckert's How We Sold Our Future: www.greenhousethinktank.org/how-we-sold-...
Philip Kitcher's *Rich and Poor* in LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Case for Pragmatic Progress | Los Angeles Review of Books
Michela Massimi reflects on Philip Kitcher’s vision for the future in “The Rich and the Poor.”
lareviewofbooks.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Philip Kitcher's *Rich and Poor* in LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Publishing today:
“Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!”
Cornel West
“Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!”
Cornel West
July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Publishing today:
“Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!”
Cornel West
“Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!”
Cornel West
Just a reminder to buy this book. Some of you haven't done so yet.
July 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just a reminder to buy this book. Some of you haven't done so yet.