Georgios Varouxakis
@georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social
Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
If you can be in Amsterdam on 21-23 November, you may like to join us for the G10 Festival of Ideas in Philosophy and Economis. It will also be livestreamed:
Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
Please find the programme here : www.g10vandeeconomie.nl
Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
Please find the programme here : www.g10vandeeconomie.nl
Festival G10 van de economie 2025
Welcome to G10 festival of great ideas on philosophy, science, and art. A unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the world’s leading thinkers. Make the invisible visible by drawing special conn...
www.g10vandeeconomie.nl
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If you can be in Amsterdam on 21-23 November, you may like to join us for the G10 Festival of Ideas in Philosophy and Economis. It will also be livestreamed:
Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
Please find the programme here : www.g10vandeeconomie.nl
Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
Please find the programme here : www.g10vandeeconomie.nl
Good to begin with Poland (though sad it is due to drone attacks): The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk, Ireland, today:
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
What is ‘The West’? | Newstalk
Following last night’s shooting down of Russian drones in Polish Airspace, Poland has asked NAT...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Good to begin with Poland (though sad it is due to drone attacks): The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk, Ireland, today:
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means
Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Reposted by Georgios Varouxakis
Really, really enjoying Georgios Varouxakis' forthcoming book 'The West: The History of an Idea' (out @princetonupress.bsky.social July US, September UK). Thoughtful, through book, and also written in wonderfully crisp and clear sentences, too.
June 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Really, really enjoying Georgios Varouxakis' forthcoming book 'The West: The History of an Idea' (out @princetonupress.bsky.social July US, September UK). Thoughtful, through book, and also written in wonderfully crisp and clear sentences, too.