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.
Reposted by Ian Malcolm
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
Philip Kitcher on the decline of a public ethics of caring for the poor.
July 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Philip Kitcher on the decline of a public ethics of caring for the poor.
Despite Trump, an optimistic book about what's possible from one of America''s leading political economists of socialism, David Kotz.
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Despite Trump, an optimistic book about what's possible from one of America''s leading political economists of socialism, David Kotz.
Forthcoming in September (US). Robert Hockett's *Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance*
July 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Forthcoming in September (US). Robert Hockett's *Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance*
Ankit Panda at New Statesman: Welcome to the new nuclear age shows.acast.com/6b2fc9ba-b9b... via @acast
Welcome to the new nuclear age | The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
shows.acast.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ankit Panda at New Statesman: Welcome to the new nuclear age shows.acast.com/6b2fc9ba-b9b... via @acast
Branko Milanovic in Martin Wolf's Economics Books of the Summer (FT).
June 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Branko Milanovic in Martin Wolf's Economics Books of the Summer (FT).
Reposted by Ian Malcolm
Delighted to see two polity books on the Best summer books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology list from @financialtimes.com
'How We Sold Our Future' by Jens Beckert and 'In Search of Green China' by Tianjie Ma
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
'How We Sold Our Future' by Jens Beckert and 'In Search of Green China' by Tianjie Ma
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
Best summer books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology
Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their best mid-year reads
www.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Delighted to see two polity books on the Best summer books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology list from @financialtimes.com
'How We Sold Our Future' by Jens Beckert and 'In Search of Green China' by Tianjie Ma
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
'How We Sold Our Future' by Jens Beckert and 'In Search of Green China' by Tianjie Ma
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
Out this week. Some prices change little in business cycles. Others vary wildly. Why?
"Ought to change our thinking about... the management of inflation and recessions."
- Robert Shiller
"A must-read."
- N. Gregory Mankiw
"Full of new evidence, findings, and ideas."
- Thomas Sargent
"Ought to change our thinking about... the management of inflation and recessions."
- Robert Shiller
"A must-read."
- N. Gregory Mankiw
"Full of new evidence, findings, and ideas."
- Thomas Sargent
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Out this week. Some prices change little in business cycles. Others vary wildly. Why?
"Ought to change our thinking about... the management of inflation and recessions."
- Robert Shiller
"A must-read."
- N. Gregory Mankiw
"Full of new evidence, findings, and ideas."
- Thomas Sargent
"Ought to change our thinking about... the management of inflation and recessions."
- Robert Shiller
"A must-read."
- N. Gregory Mankiw
"Full of new evidence, findings, and ideas."
- Thomas Sargent
Due in the fall from Kori Schake, relevant already.
"Will stand the test of time as our primary guide to understanding and evaluating civil-military relations in America. A uniquely compelling piece of work."
--General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marine (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense
"Will stand the test of time as our primary guide to understanding and evaluating civil-military relations in America. A uniquely compelling piece of work."
--General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marine (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense
June 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Due in the fall from Kori Schake, relevant already.
"Will stand the test of time as our primary guide to understanding and evaluating civil-military relations in America. A uniquely compelling piece of work."
--General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marine (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense
"Will stand the test of time as our primary guide to understanding and evaluating civil-military relations in America. A uniquely compelling piece of work."
--General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marine (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense