Matt Sleat
@mattsleat.bsky.social
Father of two, husband to one. Professor of Political Theory (University of Sheffield). Author of Post-Liberalism (https://amzn.eu/d/h2w2yXI).
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Another welcome review of Kelly Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism in @irishtimes.com on Sunday. @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Another welcome review of Kelly Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism in @irishtimes.com on Sunday. @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
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US publication day today @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
US publication day today @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
I can’t remember where I’d written this (probably my book Liberal Realism) but someone kindly shared this passage 10 years ago today. And it’s interesting to look back on it and reflect how I’m now working on whether liberalism has a realistic yet more positive story it can tell.
January 15, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I can’t remember where I’d written this (probably my book Liberal Realism) but someone kindly shared this passage 10 years ago today. And it’s interesting to look back on it and reflect how I’m now working on whether liberalism has a realistic yet more positive story it can tell.
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Reposting this as US publication date is tomorrow @politybooks.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is increasingly important to understand Postliberalism given its place in US and UK politics but it’s also important to understand how it might be challenged…
January 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Reposting this as US publication date is tomorrow @politybooks.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is increasingly important to understand Postliberalism given its place in US and UK politics but it’s also important to understand how it might be challenged…
Post-Liberalism to be published in North America in less than a month. Will be very interesting to see what Americans make of it!
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Amazon.com: Post-Liberalism: 9781509562206: Sleat, Matt: Books
Amazon.com: Post-Liberalism: 9781509562206: Sleat, Matt: Books
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January 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Post-Liberalism to be published in North America in less than a month. Will be very interesting to see what Americans make of it!
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a.co/d/6yLCCqs
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🔊242.news podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" - interview with @pjthinker.bsky.social (@politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social) on the "dead end" of post-liberalism.
twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-th...
twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-th...
🔊Podcast: "The politics of nostalgia"
Paul Kelly on why "family, faith and flag" is a dead end for the left
twentyfourtwo.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🔊242.news podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" - interview with @pjthinker.bsky.social (@politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social) on the "dead end" of post-liberalism.
twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-th...
twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-th...
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Just published (open access) in The Review of Politics:
Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'
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Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'
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Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core
Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance
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December 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Just published (open access) in The Review of Politics:
Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Great to discuss my new book and our post-liberal moment with Tim Gwynn Jones.
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🔊Podcast: "You capture political power and you use that to change society"
Matt Sleat on the new right, JD Vance and the post-liberal "moment"
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December 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Great to discuss my new book and our post-liberal moment with Tim Gwynn Jones.
open.substack.com/pub/twentyfo...
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You wait for some wins then two come along at once. Today Post-Liberalism is published - and my promotion to Professor has been officially confirmed. A rather wonderful way to end the year.
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You wait for some wins then two come along at once. Today Post-Liberalism is published - and my promotion to Professor has been officially confirmed. A rather wonderful way to end the year.
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"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'"
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
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 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'"
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Review of @pjthinker.bsky.social and my own books on post-liberalism in The Critic. Though I'm quite in favour of foppery, just not of the post-liberal kind.
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Bogged down in intellectual foppery | Tom Jones | The Critic Magazine
You know that something is really having an impact the moment people start writing books to criticise it.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Review of @pjthinker.bsky.social and my own books on post-liberalism in The Critic. Though I'm quite in favour of foppery, just not of the post-liberal kind.
thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem...
thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem...
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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...
Thanks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social for his engaged and thoughtful review of both my own and @pjthinker.bsky.social new books on post-liberalism.
My new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social reviewing two good books on post-liberalism ala Vance, Deneen and the rest of the gang.
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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 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thanks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social for his engaged and thoughtful review of both my own and @pjthinker.bsky.social new books on post-liberalism.
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Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
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There are two distinct but related stories behind the book. The first began with the rise of Blue Labour and its search for a new political economy following the Brown Gov defeat in 2010. What started as a left discourse with Cruddas, Rutherford, Pabst and Glasman, quickly turned right under Glasman
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
There are two distinct but related stories behind the book. The first began with the rise of Blue Labour and its search for a new political economy following the Brown Gov defeat in 2010. What started as a left discourse with Cruddas, Rutherford, Pabst and Glasman, quickly turned right under Glasman
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Marking one month since publication Watch out for some podcast appearances and reviews. Some growing interest amongst journalist - see Ross Douthat in @nytimes.com Also @mattsleat.bsky.social book coming shortly @politybooks.bsky.social (it’s good and it’s different so get both!!!)
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Marking one month since publication Watch out for some podcast appearances and reviews. Some growing interest amongst journalist - see Ross Douthat in @nytimes.com Also @mattsleat.bsky.social book coming shortly @politybooks.bsky.social (it’s good and it’s different so get both!!!)
While the US right is having a meltdown on the other place as to what post-liberalism is — or whether it’s even a thing — a quick reminder that my book on exactly that topic is out in the UK in less than a month (and in the US this February). Spoiler: it is a thing.
amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
While the US right is having a meltdown on the other place as to what post-liberalism is — or whether it’s even a thing — a quick reminder that my book on exactly that topic is out in the UK in less than a month (and in the US this February). Spoiler: it is a thing.
amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
A couple of years and a
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A couple of years and a
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
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The US vice-president, J. D. Vance, has identified himself as being “of the post-liberal right”. But what is post-liberalism and what does it mean for US government?
@mattsleat.bsky.social, Reader in Political Theory, explains 👇
theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
@mattsleat.bsky.social, Reader in Political Theory, explains 👇
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 12:57 PM
The US vice-president, J. D. Vance, has identified himself as being “of the post-liberal right”. But what is post-liberalism and what does it mean for US government?
@mattsleat.bsky.social, Reader in Political Theory, explains 👇
theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
@mattsleat.bsky.social, Reader in Political Theory, explains 👇
theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
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J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
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.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
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‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
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Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
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October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Just finished this tremendous volume. Cannot believe I’d never read it before. Highly recommended. And think it might have given me an idea for my next research project.
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just finished this tremendous volume. Cannot believe I’d never read it before. Highly recommended. And think it might have given me an idea for my next research project.
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Three days until publication on 24th October - might be of interest to @iandunt.bsky.social and to @sohrabahmari.bsky.social for different reasons. @politybooks.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Three days until publication on 24th October - might be of interest to @iandunt.bsky.social and to @sohrabahmari.bsky.social for different reasons. @politybooks.bsky.social
My colleague and friend Ed Hall is, by his own admission, not the best at the self-promotion that is part and parcel of modern academia. But I have just finished this and think it’s a really important book that political theorists of all stripes ought to read.
amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr
amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr
Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century: Amazon.co.uk: Hall, Edward: 9780192870032: Books
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October 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My colleague and friend Ed Hall is, by his own admission, not the best at the self-promotion that is part and parcel of modern academia. But I have just finished this and think it’s a really important book that political theorists of all stripes ought to read.
amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr
amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr