Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We have also always embraced new technology where it enabled us to do our job better. I think it is pretty shocking how many people are instead embracing technology to not do their job at all. 150
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not only is it obviously fraud, but fake citations were never even remotely a thing pre-AI. We all knew what the norms were, we all knew how to do our jobs. So I don't see how this can even be a debate. 1110
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026so the entire productivity puzzle is the government undercounting how many people went on holiday? 041
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This would probably land around 3rd on my list for 2026 hot take essays 110
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.penguin.co.uk/books/461525...penguin.co.ukUnionWherever there are workers, there are unions: and we need them now, more than ever. Whether in formal organizations or grass-roots collectives, people have always found ways to work together for a be... 110
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026my book Union has a cover. Indeed, two covers- one for the UK release and one for the US. Forthcoming August of next year. 44510
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think we underestimate how much drudgery there was in the past. 392
Reposted by Steven KleinSchool of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Our academic, Dr Paul Sagar, has received the Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought's Mid-Career Prize in recognition of the “phenomenal breadth and quality” of his research 👏🏆 @biapt.bsky.social Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/award-r...kcl.ac.ukAward recognises academic's 'outstanding service' to profession | King's College LondonA King’s College London academic has received a prestigious prize in recognition of the “phenomenal breadth and quality” of his research. 072
Reposted by Steven Kleinlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wtf do the government want from us here!? They plainly, *plainly*, do not actually want international students. Their whole line of policy for years has been making it more difficult for such people to come here or stay after they graduate! Why are they also out here encouraging us to attract more!? 2235454
Reposted by Steven KleinPaula Keller @paulamalwine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026very happy to see my paper on why Marx and Engels didn't like to imagine the socialist utopia now published online at Constellations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comPermission to Dream: The Marxist Ban on Imagining Utopia ReconsideredClick on the article title to read more. 23714
Reposted by Steven KleinSchool of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Dr Paul Sagar was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze as panellists were asked the question: 'Is empathy ever a weakness?' 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukMoral Maze - Is empathy ever a weakness? - BBC SoundsLive debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. 032
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Seems pretty obvious that the skills that analog reading, discussion, and writing enable are even more important in an age of AI. It will be trickier to preserve the essay, although for much of their history, evaluation in social sciences and philosophy was primarily exam-based anyway. 090
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Good. We kept teaching mathematics after the invention of the electronic calculator. 170
Reposted by Steven KleinMaurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 24/08/2026Just finished a week of research in Berlin on anti-Nazi resistance networks. Many discoveries but easily the most moving was this: A small paper flower a resistance organiser crafted in Luckau prison and included in a letter to his daughter – 1936 18525
Reposted by Steven KleinMollie Gerver @mgerver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Everyone faces pressure. Pressure comes from employers to work more hours, from societal expectations to lose weight, from the government to leave the country, and from family to have children. My new book considers when pressure invalidates consent, and how we can make consent more voluntary. 1/3 4348
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Many good points on the absurdity of extreme DIE face-saving, but I also think some odd assumptions from a few cases of seeing the strange judgement of other faculty on search committees - I feel like I was told quite early that faculty searches are often, but not always, pretty flawed and random 000
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Having now read the Atlantic piece, it seems there are two articles rolled in here, one that makes an excellent point about the hypocrisy of elite uni's anti-racism + union bashing, another, not very good, that makes a bunch of extreme inferences from experiencing academic hiring on the inside. 120
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If a PhD student tried to submit that and got caught they'd be referred for academic integrity. 040
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I am only partially caught up on the Cambridge affair, but the defense that "you would find similar plaigarism in everyone's work!" is insulting to the hard work of everyone in academia who strive to produce original, rigorous research. 170
Reposted by Steven KleinCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 30/07/2026#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - A Democratic Theory of Labor Unions - cup.org/4bmvRpc "The article defends a vision of economic democracy that arises from the practice of labor unions." - @stevenklein.bsky.social #FirstView 041
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026unironically love tenet - nolan only works when he embraces his inherent ridiculousness 020
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026think about how much media content is "prestige-washed" - high production values, big name stars, the right "hot button" issues, lauded hype - all to cover up the fact that it is soapy melodrama 150
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026big part of right now is companies trying to convince us that pedestrian and mid content is actually sophisticated. but then there is also something pedestrian about constantly pointing that out. if you treat nolan's odyssey as what it is - a big dumb summer blockbuster - your life will be great. 260
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I regret to inform you that The Odyssey is a very good movie. 060
Reposted by Steven KleinSamuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026🚨Job Posting🚨 I've received funding for a project on "Rethinking the Anti-Corruption Toolkit" and am hiring a 2-year postdoc (political theory or related) to help. Ideally starting this fall, but can be flexible. For best consideration apply by the end of next week! apply.interfolio.com/188955apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 12323
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Very happy to be joining Loubna El Amine as the new political theory co-editors at Perspectives on Politics. Perspectives has been a vital forum for broad-minded political theory, and we're looking forward to continuing that tradition. Send us work that you're excited about! 1277
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026So time for new stricter criteria, more grant expectations, more evidence of everything. Discourage any risk taking or long term projects. 010
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Due to the state of the global job market, our faculty has been able to hire many excellent scholars who are overqualified for junior posts and so able to quickly get promoted. In true British HE brain fashion, their success has now become"problem" that the university needs to solve. 280
Reposted by Steven KleinSchool of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026🔔 Job alert 🔔 ➡️ AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics The position is open to anyone with the ability to deliver excellent introductory teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level on policy processes, and ethics and public policy. Apply ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSC917/a...jobs.ac.ukAEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics at King's College LondonRecruiting now: AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board 0310
Reposted by Steven KleinBen Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide. 16231273
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 24/06/2026An attack on Humanities and social sciences despite Exeter reporting a recent surplus www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers... 031
Reposted by Steven KleinBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 23/06/2026The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/ 26932
Reposted by Steven Kleinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2026the whole theory of politics at work here — we can co-opt the far-right and box them out of mainstream politics and then reap the political windfall — is a total failure. 2386
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 22/06/2026also to be frank the constituencies they were appealing to with their pandering to the far-right respond to personality and vibes and they don't want a stiff, arrogant bureaucrat as PM. 060
Reposted by Steven Kleinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2026right, you don't get credit for your left-leaning actions when the most visible part of your tenure involves you pandering to the far-right at every opportunity 2262
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It's weird that the current centrist "why don't people like Starmer despite all his achievements" discourse completely ignores Mandelson and Epstein. Maybe part of the issue is that the labour right had some terrible people in it! 030
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It's odd that people think Starmer should get credit for things he has barely talked about or himself taken credit for even as he has repeatedly tried to move to the right on a whole host of hot button issues. 1111
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I think a lot of people are happy with this - they just don't see it as a product of Starmer, who has largely ran away from most of these achievements, and then suspended the whip over 2-child, banned palestine action, and gone hard right on immigration. 1161
Reposted by Steven KleinJana Konle @jkonle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Well, that was fun! We organised the second Graduate Conference on Political Theory last week and it was such a great day. Thank you to all panellists, the senior academics who helped by chairing panels, and to Dr Bernardo Zacka for a most creative and engaging keynote! @kingspoltheory.bsky.social 0135
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I think it all comes from the same source: he doesn't have a policy agenda, only believes in process, wants to put all the hard choices on his ministers, and is such a bad communicator that he has no ability to muster loyalty within the party. 110
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026he's veered between pro and antiimmigration messaging. completely failed party management on the welfare bill. it all comes from the same source: he basically doesn't have an agenda, thinks he can delegate all policy to ministers, refuses to get involved in inter-ministry disputes, and is reactive 110
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I don't think its just compared to expectations - he has no agenda and isn't in control of government, from the get-go. They let treasury push cutting the winter fuel allowance - something they try to do with every gov't and every PM is sensible enough to stop them. 110
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026What is the philosophy of work and democracy that follows from the historic labour movement? In my new article, I develop a democratic defense of labour unions and show how it leads to a distinctive vision of industrial democracy. Forthcoming in the APSR stevenmklein.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...stevenmklein.wordpress.com 3178
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 16/06/2026An interesting review of Drochon's Elite and Democracy that also notes the more subtle readings in Piano's recent book on Italian elite theorists americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/05/redi...americanaffairsjournal.orgRediscovering a Dynamic Elite? - American Affairs JournalIf we have decided that democracy cannot literally mean the rule of the people and has to be redefined, then there is no particular reason why we must accept democratic elites’ openness, mobility, or ... 000
Reposted by Steven KleinRenewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026NEW ISSUE: Renewal 34.2 Ft. @kirstymcneill.bsky.social, @daimoon.bsky.social, @demofuturist.bsky.social, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @sellottie.bsky.social @anaopp.bsky.social, @dmk1793.bsky.social, Sean McDaniel, John Chowcat, Carla Rocavert, and Hannah McHugh renewal.org.uk/journal/volu... 1157