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Professor of Politics, LSE www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/pe…

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is very good. I definitely agree that studies on authoritarianism need to move beyond approaching it as a unitary form, and that time is one of the main dimensions through which various forms of authoritarianism can be differentiated from each other. Maybe what's also interesting is that,+
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New article of mine- 'Time and the Neo-Monarchist Turn', European Journal of Social Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lse-ei.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'The Future as a Democratic Resource', my article now published at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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The Future as a Democratic Resource | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Future as a Democratic Resource - Volume 24 Issue 3
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢 LSE Political Theory job opening We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level Reach out with questions & please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory
Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory, , <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</p> <p style="margin:...
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A new episode of Future Histories! This time I speak to Jonathan White ( @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social, @lse-ei.bsky.social ) about the future as a political idea. Full Episode: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #FutureHistoriesInternational #Podcast
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'The End of the Future' - a piece I wrote @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/f... @lse-ei.bsky.social
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The End of the Future
Only Silicon Valley looks ahead now.
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'The End of the Future' - a piece I wrote @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/f... @lse-ei.bsky.social
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The End of the Future
Only Silicon Valley looks ahead now.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I wrote about protests in Albania, Europe, development traps, oligarchic capture, and, well, hope. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi
The slogan ‘Albania is not for sale’ reveals a nation that respects itself, and will not sell its soul for investment, says author and academic Lea Ypi
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/06/2026
‘Fees that don’t meet ever rising costs; significant falls in the number of international students; sudden drops or worrying fluctuations in the size of the intake in some subjects: these are the stuff of nightmares.’ Stefan Collini on what’s wrong with UK universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
'Democratising the Future' - very pleased to be giving the Schuman lecture in Maastricht this evening: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/democ... @lse-ei.bsky.social @nieuwezijds.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social
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Democratising the Future in Today’s Europe - Events - Maastricht University
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
'Democratising the Future' - very pleased to be giving the Schuman lecture in Maastricht this evening: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/democ... @lse-ei.bsky.social @nieuwezijds.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social
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Democratising the Future in Today’s Europe - Events - Maastricht University
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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Do we need the category of constituent power to evaluate contemporary conflicts about political legitimacy? Roundtable at LSE, 12 May, 6.30-8.00pm with @efieldingd.bsky.social, Oliver Garner, Martin Loughlin, Carmen Pavel, @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social, Michael Wilkinson www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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The Revival of Constituent Power?
6.30pm Tuesday 12 May | Registration Required | Free hybrid public event at LSE
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279
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Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
For anyone who ever claimed that the Gaza Health Ministry death toll in Gaza could not be trusted - today the IDF acknowledged it agrees with their numbers. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
To celebrate my appointment as the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics & Philosophy at LSE Law School & the School of Public Policy, I'll give an inaugural lecture entitled “Are Revolutions Justified?”. Registration required - look forward to seeing many of you! ❤️ lselaw.events/event/are-re...
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Lea Ypi Inaugural Lecture | Are revolutions justified? - LSE Law School Events
Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution cannot be right. In this lecture Lea Ypi ...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 02/12/2025
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Very nice to see 'In the Long Run' on this list ...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
One of my favourite things this year was recording this episode of BBC Radio 3 Private Passions with Michael Berkeley where we talked about my favourite music from Limoz Dizdari to Hans Eisler’s Solidaritätslied via Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and more. Out now www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Lea Ypi
Michael Berkeley's guest is the writer and professor of political theory at LSE, Lea Ypi.
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...
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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
#ACFM examines the Future. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I ask, did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? With music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs. novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...
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What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future? | Novara Media
A weird-left explanation of how the future lost its shine, with ideas from Max Weber, Kate Raworth and Jonathan White.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2025
More than a quarter of a million people displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show
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More than a quarter of a million people displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show
Tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in face of new Israeli offensive More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced from Gaza City in the last month, new figures from the UN reveal, with tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive. Multiple strikes by Israeli artillery, tanks and warplanes hit Gaza City again on Thursday, prompting what a UN official called “new waves of mass displacement” after about 60,000 fled the new assault in 72 hours earlier this week. Continue reading...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
My weekend essay for @financialtimes.com on grandmothers from lost worlds, dignity and surveillance (then and now)…
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Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance
A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Lea's best book yet - and it's out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/458930...
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Indignity
When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told record...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...
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Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall today.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The content of my thoughts is now an object in the world!!! Thank you, thank you to everyone who supported the research or supported the writing or supported me & the research & the writing - I am so grateful and happy and can’t wait to celebrate with you all when it’s released on 4th September 😍😍🐥!
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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Elena Polivtseva @elenapolivtseva.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
As Jonathan White argues, politics obsessed with numbers has shrunk our sense of the future. Art can spark collective imagination and a deeper purpose beyond economic metrics. Read my conversation with @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social here: www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/tod...
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‘The shrinking political imagination is a threat to democracy’ — Culture Policy Room
As the European Union grapples with long-term budgets and shifting political priorities, I spoke with Jonathan White about how Europe, as a shared democratic project, can endure in an age when collect...
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
‘The Crisis of Long-Termism: Time and Independence in the European Union’ – my new article with Antoine Vauchez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @wepsocial.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
‘The Crisis of Long-Termism: Time and Independence in the European Union’ – my new article with Antoine Vauchez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @wepsocial.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
How on earth can the UK sanction two Israeli ministers yet — at the very same time — continue supplying weapons to the very government they serve? The UK’s position is becoming more absurd by the day. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It has been a while since I enjoyed a book in political theory this much. @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social's "In the Long Run" is beautifully written, insightful, and full of fresh thinking on political change, imagination, and ideology - all through the lens of the future. Go read it.
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My new article in Political Studies: ‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 29/05/2025
Our attempt to make sense of Trump II, sans sane-washing. Big thanks to @andrewelrod.bsky.social and Maya Adereth whose editing made the piece much, much better.
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My new article in Political Studies: ‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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José Tomás Labarca @jtlabarca.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is such a great book. Highly recommended! 👏👏👏 @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Today, the Independent Alliance delivered media handbooks to mainstream press outlets, suggesting basic ways they could hold the Prime Minister to account over Gaza. You can read the full handbook here: linktr.ee/jeremycorbyn
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Coming up at the Institute on Wednesday next week: @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social will give a lecture on “The Future as a Democratic Resource”. @lse-ei.bsky.social www.mpifg.de/events/40297...
May 7, 16:30
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’ This week’s column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1) INDIGNITY has a cover! We are still on the theme of nature and freedom but this time with canaries - one of the one hundred that feature prominently in the book. Full info (about the book, not the canaries yet) in the link below 😜🌹🐥 www.penguin.co.uk/books/458930...
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Indignity
When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told record...
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The pitfalls of instant messaging as a tool of government ...
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The pitfalls of instant messaging as a tool of government ...
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New publication - 'The Future as a Democratic Resource', online now at Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153... @poppublicsphere.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 24/03/2025
This paper made a lot of things click for me. Ambitious visions of the future are essential for the left: they “put the present in critical perspective, aid in the formation of a collective agent, and consolidate commitment in adversity.” Anyone trying to think constructively about politics, read!
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New publication - 'The Future as a Democratic Resource', online now at Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153... @poppublicsphere.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, Beatrice Webb’s) desk at LSE! Publishing @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all ❤️🧿!
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marcusjmaloney.bsky.social @marcusjmaloney.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Great Novara interview with @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social with interesting reflection re. how we might be moving beyond Fisher's 'capitalist realism' cycle (for worse or better): youtube.com/watch?v=At2G...
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Individualism Stole Your Future. Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Jonathan White
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Nice to discuss the politics of the future on @novaramedia.com with Aaron Bastani www.youtube.com/watch?v=At2G...
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Individualism Stole Your Future. Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Jonathan White
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Nice to discuss the politics of the future on @novaramedia.com with Aaron Bastani www.youtube.com/watch?v=At2G...
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Individualism Stole Your Future. Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Jonathan White
YouTube video by Novara Media
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