One of our most anticipated books of the spring, now in stock and shipping to UK shops through May. Glyn Morgan's Rise and Fall of American Europe.
Maybe this account of why the BBC is cutting public events staff also explains why its website is full of American celebrity news. Depressing.
Wonderful! Thomas Nagel in the LRB on T.M. Scanlon's new book: I’m not sorry www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The FT reviews Glyn Morgan's "incisive" Rise and Fall of American Europe: www.ft.com/content/1971...
Denis Cogneau explains how to understand the French colonial empire: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
Denis Cogneau's Empire on the Cheap in the TLS: www.the-tls.com/history/the-...
Looking good at the Polity stand today in Oxford @pjthinker.bsky.social & @mattsleat.bsky.social
Adam Kadlac, author of The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life, in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
We shouldn't pretend away the message whoever the messenger. There are patterns of electoral fraud among some Asian communities & if we don't take the problem seriously, the right will reply in kind. Here's a soft take, the Guardian's blame-the-parties view. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it...
Two timely new books examine the European project, its history and the threats to its future
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Mark Leonard's *Surving Chaos* publishing this Friday in the UK.
"Yet another of Mark Leonard's brilliant books."
--Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
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The history of the European overseas empires – Spanish, French, British and other – is often presented as one of initial conquest and colonization,
