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An unbelievable essay on Celan that simply must be read (not only because it tells you you simply must read Anna Arno’s biography too)
Lucy Ives on Paul Celan: "A writer who had contemplated and understood something about modern warfare, technocracy, and globalization that nobody else had, by which I mean he had understood something about how language itself was affected by these things." poetryfoundation.org/article…
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The first review of First Among Equals is live, from the indomitable @DavidWootton69
“Teresa Bejan…has fundamentally re-conceptualised the history of equality; for an historian of political theory there could hardly be a more important achievement.”
Thank you, David!
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Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England.
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Adam Kirsch: "Now that liberal triumphalism of the post–Cold War era is dying, what can replace it? The answer may lie in another important essay written in 1989—1 that received much less attention than Fukuyama’s. "The Liberalism of Fear" by Judith Shklar" theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Very lively conversation at @RemarqueNYU about @GuilhotNicolas’ CONSPIRACY: The History of a Political Obsession, out from Belknap this Tues.
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Every author hopes for interlocutors as sharp as these — @nikhil_palsingh, @jenszalai, and Stefanos Geroulanos.
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A version of this new NYRB essay by Mark Lilla appears as the foreword to a new edition of the The Liberalism of Fear, by Judith N. Shklar, that was published today by Harvard University Press: nybooks.com/online/2026/09/2…
When did the em-dash replace the colon, and what does it reveal about the psychic effects of late capitalism? Asking for a friend (nearly every academic I’ve edited).
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Had fun talking about Hobsbawm, the history of French intellectual life, and a whole host of other things in the latest episode of @BBCFreeThinking with @DrMatthewSweet and guests...
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031vp…
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Hobsbawm Discourse reaches new heights as Adam Tooze devotes *half* of one of his @OnesandToozePod podcasts to Hobsbawm and my book! Plus it's a really interesting and smart analysis. Do I just retire now..?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Come for Olivia Oldham's smart and personal take on YUPPIES; stay for the essays by @gabrielwinant, @maidinoff, and many, many others.
very proud of ARTIFICIAL FUTURES, the technology issue we've put together at @DissentMag — featuring Brian J. Chen, @veenadubal, Katie Wells, @jerometenk, @maidinoff, JS Tan, @ClarissaRedwine and many more! (cover by @thetolerantweft)
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Publication day!
(For the US edition, at least - UK edition coming in a couple of weeks...)
Thank you to everyone who helped along the way ☺️
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I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion—
With many thanks to Luke Hallam and @Yascha_Mounk!
“Gold conquers the strongest citadels,
Turns friends into traitors and liars;
Persuades the noblest to acts of infamy,
Betraying their leaders to the enemy;…
Even scholarship at times has been bought,
Blinding discernment and impartial thought.”
—Camões, The Lusiads, Canto Eight
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It's here! After so many years!
I wasn't entirely sure this book would really happen, until I opened the box. Now, perhaps, it's time to let go of it and see what others think..?
Thanks to @Harvard_Press and everyone else who followed me in this journey.
Heartbroken to learn that we have lost Tom Conley, indefatigable seiziémiste, film scholar, exegete and translator of de Certeau, Deleuze, Jean-Louis Schéfer and many more. In an age of complacency in the humanities, he always maintained the exacting standards and élan of the 70s
This is the piece on 1776 you want to be reading today ⚖️
When the Declaration of Independence was written, the word “equal” had many different definitions. The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance—but what happens next is up to us, @tmbejan argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
The Age of Hobsbawm @emile_chabal now available for pre-order!
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‘Hobsbawm’s canonization was a Western tribute to a great historian who had erected a monument to Europe amid its decline, when the lights and shadows of its civilization appeared, in retrospect, as a vanished past, as impressive as it was tragic.’ theideasletter.org/essay/the…
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"The secret is to allow the language to flow, to possess you."
Mitchell Abidor explores three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
