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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A personal favorite, published in the US Sept 29. "Unflinching, original... It deserves a place in the philosophical tradition of Montaigne and Camus." -Raymond Geuss "I am reminded of some of the great American writers." -Justin Weinberg "A beautiful book." Justin Smith-Ruiu
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Due in 2027, The Gilded Cage by Sam Zacher. The majority of rich Americans now vote Democrat. How does that constrain party policy?
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Why Canada Exists, by the great Robert Bothwell. Due in 2027.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ian Buruma reviews Glyn Morgan's Rise and Fall of American Europe in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It?
During the Cold War, U.S. policymakers pushed for a unified Europe. Their MAGA successors are trying to undo all that.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ben Zachariah on the postcolonial right, reviewed in Compact. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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The Rise of the Völkisch Left
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Out in the UK today: "In the philosophical tradition of Montaigne and Camus." -Raymond Geuss "I am reminded of some of the great American writers." -Justin Weinberg "A beautiful book from a philosopher who has refused to separate philosophy from life itself." -Justin Smith-Ruiu
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Releasing soon: "Deserves a place in the philosophical tradition of Montaigne and Camus." -Raymond Geuss "I am reminded of some of the great American writers." -Justin Weinberg "A beautiful book from a philosopher who has refused to separate philosophy from life itself." -Justin Smith-Ruiu
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Jens Beckert explains why we aren't tackling climate change and probably won't, under capitalist modernity. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
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Jens Beckert: Democracy won’t beat climate change
From profit maximisation to short term limits, is capitalist modernity equipped to tackle climate change?
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Glyn Morgan in L-Post Belgium talking about the fall of American Europe. lpost.be/politique/lo...
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L’OTAN, l’UE et la fin du parapluie américain : le diagnostic sans appel du politologue Glyn Morgan
L’Union européenne est-elle un projet d’indépendance réussi ou simplement le protectorat vieillissant d’une puissance devenue hostile ? C’est la que
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Denis Cogneau explains how to understand the French colonial empire: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Denis Cogneau's Empire on the Cheap in the TLS: www.the-tls.com/history/the-...
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Imperial measures
The history of the European overseas empires – Spanish, French, British and other – is often presented as one of initial conquest and colonization,
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The FT reviews Glyn Morgan's "incisive" Rise and Fall of American Europe: www.ft.com/content/1971...
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How Europe was made — and how America could unmake it
Two timely new books examine the European project, its history and the threats to its future
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Wonderful! Thomas Nagel in the LRB on T.M. Scanlon's new book: I’m not sorry www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Nagel · I’m not sorry: Should we punish?
Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it...
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Maybe this account of why the BBC is cutting public events staff also explains why its website is full of American celebrity news. Depressing.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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...
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Parties exploit Asian networks for votes – Electoral Commission
Electioneering is delegated to ethnic kinship groups, report says, leaving communities vulnerable to fraud
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Adam Kadlac, author of The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life, in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: We shouldn't treat Disney adults like cultural abominations
Seeking an escape at one of Mickey's parks isn't any worse than checking out by playing video games, watching sports or reading smutty novels.
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Looking good at the Polity stand today in Oxford @pjthinker.bsky.social & @mattsleat.bsky.social
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Raymond Geuss's *Tracks in Chaos*. Now in the warehouse and available in the UK on 10 April.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Crucial background for the current conflict. Hamid Azizi's *Axis of Resistance*. Due in May in UK/Europe, summer in US.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Does strategic bombing, like in Iran, achieve major policy goals? The record is not good. John Arquilla's timely book about what the US gets wrong when it goes to war. Due in the US in June.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A great review of Gerald Garutti's *Watch Your Words*, a crtitique of our contemporary abuse of language (not least on social media like this). ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/cg4a97lz...
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Review essay
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Proofs are in for Glyn Morgan's prescient *Rise and Fall of American Europe*. Books due in late spring. Glyn analyses exactly the political choices that European leaders are now confronting with Trump's aggression over Greenland.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Published today in the UK, Matt Sleat's critique of post-liberalism.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Coming to bookstores in 2026. If you can't wait, the fall of American Europe is, of course, already available in reality.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Andrea Capussela on what we haven't learned from the financial crisis: www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
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Andrea Capussela, what have we not learned from the Financial Crisis? — Institute of Intellectual History
Political economist Andrea Capussela discusses how a republican conception of freedom and Schumpeter’s idea of ‘creative destruction’ can converge to foster economic reform and innovation.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
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Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Not sure of all he has in mind but he notes, e.g, that raising the UK’s pension age by 1 year is more effective in having a lower share of pensioners than tripling net migration. He also notes that demographers show immigration makes the population younger in the short-run yet older in the long-run.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
You may be right. But see FT on Alan Manning's new book today: "One [overblown] claim [he challenges] is that rich countries need higher immigration to pay for healthcare & pensions... But migrants too grow old, & other policies — pension reform, say — are far more powerful tools."
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
FT on Alan Manning's new book: "Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning’s carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject." www.ft.com/content/9005...
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Why Immigration Policy Is Hard — a guide to breaking out of the ‘infernal circle’
Economist Alan Manning takes a balanced, sometimes uncomfortable look at the costs, benefits and trade-offs of migration
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better. 'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If I recall correctly, anxiety about immigration did drop in polls after Brexit but resumed when numbers soared to record highs. And recall that gross immigration = 900,000, so that 1 in 77 people in the country arrived in the year to June 25 (1 in 30 over the past 2 yrs). We're not Fortress UK.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Although, we're having a population boom now so when the immigrants get older they may be like the baby boom generation in numbers, only (I assume) poorer.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'm puzzled by this thread & the comments as immigration is historically v. high. Even today's stats about a drop in net immigration misses that gross immigration was 900,000 (lots of people left, notably young Brits). So 1 in 77 people in the UK arrived in the year to June 2025. How high can we go?
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For those who want to know the economic facts about immigration (neither "side" will like all he has to say), LSE labour economist Alan Manning has a new book out tomorrow.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Out tomorrow, Alan Manning's Why Immigration Policy is Hard. People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart. -Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking. -Stephen Bush, FT
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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social) These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved: ‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...
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The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom, True freedom, Capussela writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-ca...
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“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
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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
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What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?
The President’s chilling vision of turning American military power inward.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Mentioned by Tim Harford in the FT today, Alan Manning's forthcoming Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Out later this month from Paul Kelly at the LSE.
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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...
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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
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...
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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
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I recall a sense of disorientation on visiting the Resolution Foundation. Dedicated to the British poor but oozing money and decorated principally with paintings of the Soviet military. It felt very far from Blackpool.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
He's wrong about Ireland. But it's odd that a person in a country powerless to stop the war thinks it’s helpful and important to donate to an organisation committing sabotage in a foreign country only marginally less powerless. There's something knee-jerk about it.
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