Samuel Miller McDonald
@smillermcdonald.bsky.social
Author of PROGRESS, HarperCollins/Macmillan '25~
DPhil from Oxford Geography & Brasenose College~
Work in the Nation, Guardian, New Republic, Current Affairs, Boston Review+
DPhil from Oxford Geography & Brasenose College~
Work in the Nation, Guardian, New Republic, Current Affairs, Boston Review+
Today is publication day for my book! @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social You can get your hands on it at most bookstores in the UK, or online at any of the vendors listed here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/pro...
August 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today is publication day for my book! @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social You can get your hands on it at most bookstores in the UK, or online at any of the vendors listed here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/pro...
Had a great launch the other day in Oxford. Very grateful to @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social for organizing it, and to my sweet friends and kind colleagues who came to celebrate! Five days until (UK) publication. Let's get out and explode the powerful myths imperiling our futures
August 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Had a great launch the other day in Oxford. Very grateful to @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social for organizing it, and to my sweet friends and kind colleagues who came to celebrate! Five days until (UK) publication. Let's get out and explode the powerful myths imperiling our futures
The idea of progress helped build the world's first civilizations ~5,000 years ago. It is now driving global civilizational collapse.
My book tells the history of this process. You can now preorder it at:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/prog... for August 14 (in the UK)
My book tells the history of this process. You can now preorder it at:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/prog... for August 14 (in the UK)
July 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The idea of progress helped build the world's first civilizations ~5,000 years ago. It is now driving global civilizational collapse.
My book tells the history of this process. You can now preorder it at:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/prog... for August 14 (in the UK)
My book tells the history of this process. You can now preorder it at:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/prog... for August 14 (in the UK)
Weird duet last night
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Weird duet last night
My latest piece for @currentaffairs.bsky.social: Far from solving climate change, alternative energy may only increase carbon emissions—unless a strong state is willing to do things like ban AI, prosecute crypto, shrink cars, and keep fossil fuels in the ground www.currentaffairs.org/news/dirty-l...
June 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My latest piece for @currentaffairs.bsky.social: Far from solving climate change, alternative energy may only increase carbon emissions—unless a strong state is willing to do things like ban AI, prosecute crypto, shrink cars, and keep fossil fuels in the ground www.currentaffairs.org/news/dirty-l...
Attention! @barnesandnoble.com is doing a promotion for Members. 25% off pre-orders of my book from today to Friday (PREORDER25): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/progress-s...
April 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Attention! @barnesandnoble.com is doing a promotion for Members. 25% off pre-orders of my book from today to Friday (PREORDER25): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/progress-s...
Looks like the Trump admin is already afraid of my book. You can preorder it in the US here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... and UK here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/pro...
March 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Looks like the Trump admin is already afraid of my book. You can preorder it in the US here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... and UK here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/pro...
A dram to Robert Burns, one of the Enlightenment's better angels, on his night 🥃
January 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A dram to Robert Burns, one of the Enlightenment's better angels, on his night 🥃
Big Sube is 26, still runs like gazelle. When I got her in 2002-3 it was a normal sized car, and now is one of the smallest on the road
January 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Big Sube is 26, still runs like gazelle. When I got her in 2002-3 it was a normal sized car, and now is one of the smallest on the road
It's hard, living together....
November 29, 2024 at 7:51 PM
It's hard, living together....
Finished my DPhil in September '23, graduated May '24, posting about it now. Many thanks to my supervisors
Aoife Brophy and Nick Eyre and examiners Tim Schwanen and Giorgos Kallis for their brilliant insights and generous guidance, which improved my work immeasurably
Aoife Brophy and Nick Eyre and examiners Tim Schwanen and Giorgos Kallis for their brilliant insights and generous guidance, which improved my work immeasurably
November 27, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Finished my DPhil in September '23, graduated May '24, posting about it now. Many thanks to my supervisors
Aoife Brophy and Nick Eyre and examiners Tim Schwanen and Giorgos Kallis for their brilliant insights and generous guidance, which improved my work immeasurably
Aoife Brophy and Nick Eyre and examiners Tim Schwanen and Giorgos Kallis for their brilliant insights and generous guidance, which improved my work immeasurably
430pm at the 56th parallel
November 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
430pm at the 56th parallel
There's little I find more joyous and wondrous than the first snow. One of those few emotions from boyhood to survive adult cynicism
November 23, 2024 at 11:50 AM
There's little I find more joyous and wondrous than the first snow. One of those few emotions from boyhood to survive adult cynicism
Got some bound proofs to work on..!
November 16, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Got some bound proofs to work on..!
Check out the pigeon grazing line on that berry bush
December 30, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Check out the pigeon grazing line on that berry bush
The Simpsons has some really beautiful landscape illustration
November 6, 2023 at 3:54 PM
The Simpsons has some really beautiful landscape illustration
I just think they're neat
November 6, 2023 at 3:45 PM
I just think they're neat
Been brewing up this Alan Grant + Ian Malcolm costume for weeks and then I see this damn tweet
October 29, 2023 at 12:05 PM
Been brewing up this Alan Grant + Ian Malcolm costume for weeks and then I see this damn tweet
Expert tier bio
October 27, 2023 at 10:44 AM
Expert tier bio
Too busy chilling with his best mate peregrin took
October 26, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Too busy chilling with his best mate peregrin took