Steven Klein
@stevenklein.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Theory, King's College London. Writing a global history and philosophy of unions (Allen Lane/Oxford) and PI for DERISK https://www.derisk.org.uk/
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My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
Click on the article title to read more.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Please do submit to the second London PPE conference hosted at KCL- it is a great community and will promise to be an exciting conference!
⏰ Call for proposals!⏰
Organisers are calling for full panel proposals, author-meets-critics sessions, or individual papers from those who would like to attend the next annual PPE conference at King's
The deadline for submissions is February 20👇
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Organisers are calling for full panel proposals, author-meets-critics sessions, or individual papers from those who would like to attend the next annual PPE conference at King's
The deadline for submissions is February 20👇
ppesociety.org/ppe-society-...
2026 PPE Society London Meeting - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
We are pleased to share that, in addition to the PPE Society’s Annual Meetings held each year in New Orleans, the international PPE Society will…
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February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Please do submit to the second London PPE conference hosted at KCL- it is a great community and will promise to be an exciting conference!
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A new project led by @sanpages.bsky.social will seek to address the growing challenges posed by ageing populations and skills shortages in rural areas 📑
Read more ⬇️
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Project will seek to address challenge of skills shortage in rural areas | King's College London
A pioneering new project led by a King’s College London academic aims to help rural governments address the growing challenges posed by ageing populations and skills shortages.
www.kcl.ac.uk
February 12, 2026 at 11:06 AM
A new project led by @sanpages.bsky.social will seek to address the growing challenges posed by ageing populations and skills shortages in rural areas 📑
Read more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/project...
Read more ⬇️
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Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here!
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February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here!
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NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
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I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
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🗣️ "The government can’t promise anything in terms of solving the problem..."
Professor Anja Shortland spoke to @thetimes.com about efforts to tackle cybercrime and fraud in the UK 🤖💻
Read it here (💷)⬇️
www.thetimes.com/money/saving...
Professor Anja Shortland spoke to @thetimes.com about efforts to tackle cybercrime and fraud in the UK 🤖💻
Read it here (💷)⬇️
www.thetimes.com/money/saving...
How Britain tried (and failed) to stop a £10 billion crimewave
The police have launched two fraud-fighting intiatives — will they be any better at tackling the three million cases a year, asks Megan Harwood-Baynes
www.thetimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:20 AM
🗣️ "The government can’t promise anything in terms of solving the problem..."
Professor Anja Shortland spoke to @thetimes.com about efforts to tackle cybercrime and fraud in the UK 🤖💻
Read it here (💷)⬇️
www.thetimes.com/money/saving...
Professor Anja Shortland spoke to @thetimes.com about efforts to tackle cybercrime and fraud in the UK 🤖💻
Read it here (💷)⬇️
www.thetimes.com/money/saving...
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Great work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.
Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh
There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Great work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.
It's the Iraq war mea culpas all over again. Yes you were right but you were right for the wrong reasons.
there been a bunch of fascism articles recently whose argument goes:
1. the annoying alarmist dipshits said a bunch of stupid stuff
2. yet somehow, what they predicted ended up happening
3. waffle around vaguely for a bit, without ever reconciling 1 & 2
1. the annoying alarmist dipshits said a bunch of stupid stuff
2. yet somehow, what they predicted ended up happening
3. waffle around vaguely for a bit, without ever reconciling 1 & 2
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 AM
It's the Iraq war mea culpas all over again. Yes you were right but you were right for the wrong reasons.
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The @ippr.org asked me to write about Klein and Thompson's"abundance" agenda for their Progressive Review.
Rather than a choice, scarcity has been unavoidable in the UK recently - with implications for both abundance and more dirigiste supply agendas.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rather than a choice, scarcity has been unavoidable in the UK recently - with implications for both abundance and more dirigiste supply agendas.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Unavoidability of Scarcity and Necessity of Political Choice
Advocates of the ‘abundance’ agenda dream of a bright future, but in the UK its possibility relies on economic sacrifices in the present. The consequent politics are wicked and demand ideologically i...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:42 AM
The @ippr.org asked me to write about Klein and Thompson's"abundance" agenda for their Progressive Review.
Rather than a choice, scarcity has been unavoidable in the UK recently - with implications for both abundance and more dirigiste supply agendas.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rather than a choice, scarcity has been unavoidable in the UK recently - with implications for both abundance and more dirigiste supply agendas.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A significant percentage of this was orchestrated by tech oligarchs like Thiele looking for an opening to tear down the state
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
A significant percentage of this was orchestrated by tech oligarchs like Thiele looking for an opening to tear down the state
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
Volume 33, Issue 3-4
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:46 PM
NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
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How do ecological activists use expert knowledge to stage scenes of dissensus & what does this reveal about expertise & democracy? @aehyvonen.bsky.social reformulates radical democratic theory to offer new insights into both questions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/RoFhPou
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
How do ecological activists use expert knowledge to stage scenes of dissensus & what does this reveal about expertise & democracy? @aehyvonen.bsky.social reformulates radical democratic theory to offer new insights into both questions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/RoFhPou
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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🆕 'Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'
Professor Robin Douglass and Dr Edward Hall have a new article published in the Review of Politics journal ✍️💭
Read it here 👇
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Professor Robin Douglass and Dr Edward Hall have a new article published in the Review of Politics journal ✍️💭
Read it here 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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 9:18 AM
🆕 'Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'
Professor Robin Douglass and Dr Edward Hall have a new article published in the Review of Politics journal ✍️💭
Read it here 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Professor Robin Douglass and Dr Edward Hall have a new article published in the Review of Politics journal ✍️💭
Read it here 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🪙Public support for broad-based taxation risks eroding when voters learn that the super-rich pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens, according to new research 📉
Read the research, co-authored by Julian Limberg, David Hope and Lukas Haffert, here 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
Read the research, co-authored by Julian Limberg, David Hope and Lukas Haffert, here 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
Public support for taxation crumbles when unfairness is revealed | King's College London
Public support for broad-based taxation risks eroding when voters learn that the super-rich pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens, according to new research co-authored by King’s academics.
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 12:28 PM
🪙Public support for broad-based taxation risks eroding when voters learn that the super-rich pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens, according to new research 📉
Read the research, co-authored by Julian Limberg, David Hope and Lukas Haffert, here 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
Read the research, co-authored by Julian Limberg, David Hope and Lukas Haffert, here 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students!
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PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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January 13, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
This is your brain on 5G
January 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
This is your brain on 5G
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Socialist A. Philip Randolph saw in the porters’ struggle a symbol for the strivings of all Black working people. Believing they were “made to order to carry the gospel of unionism in the colored world,” he threw himself into his newfound leadership role labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
100 Years Ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics
The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. One hundred years ago on August 25, 1925, Black sleeping car porters, hoping to form a union at the ...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Socialist A. Philip Randolph saw in the porters’ struggle a symbol for the strivings of all Black working people. Believing they were “made to order to carry the gospel of unionism in the colored world,” he threw himself into his newfound leadership role labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
but Plato *was* woke on gender
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
but Plato *was* woke on gender
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🆕 Pioneering research on conflict resolution led by our academic, Dr Elisa Cavatorta, has been licensed for use as part of an innovative virtual reality (VR) programme being rolled out in schools 👩💻🏫
Read more here 👇
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Read more here 👇
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Research by King's academic licensed for use as part of innovative teaching programme | King's College London
Pioneering research on conflict resolution led by a King’s academic has been licensed for use as part of an innovative virtual reality (VR) programme being rolled out in schools.
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🆕 Pioneering research on conflict resolution led by our academic, Dr Elisa Cavatorta, has been licensed for use as part of an innovative virtual reality (VR) programme being rolled out in schools 👩💻🏫
Read more here 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/researc...
Read more here 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/researc...
Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it
Fellowships for Early Career Researchers | King's College London
Join a vibrant, dynamic community of postdoctoral and early career researchers
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it
Might makes right and pervasive cynicism is the soil for authoritarianism. If it's all a struggle for survival then what matters most is that your side is stronger and authoritarianism promises strength and force.
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Might makes right and pervasive cynicism is the soil for authoritarianism. If it's all a struggle for survival then what matters most is that your side is stronger and authoritarianism promises strength and force.
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
Lotta people only heard what they wanted to hear re: trumps "isolationism." His main complaint normally that US didn't get the oil that it should have gone to war for
January 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Lotta people only heard what they wanted to hear re: trumps "isolationism." His main complaint normally that US didn't get the oil that it should have gone to war for