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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Men explain Epstein to me: “This is the story I could tell on a podcast –although in telling it I might become incoherent with rage or start crying. Men don’t really need to hear this from me anyway; all they need to do is listen to the women around them.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Susan Pedersen · Diary: Men explain Epstein to me

A girl doesn’t have to fall into Epstein’s clutches to see sexual abuse up close, and if she gets through childhood...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

First day as a Postdoctoral Fellow @UNSW Excited to begin my new project on Medical Utopias in the 19th century

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I was today years old when I found out they were originally called Baby Gays before being rebranded Q-tips Baby Gays Ping @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New issue of EJHET just published - including my review of the first full edition of Saint-Simon's correspondence (1782-1825)

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Very pleased to announce that, as of April next year, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at UNSW - and working on my new project: "Medical Utopias in the French and Anglophone Worlds, c. 1840-1890"

Depiction of an imagined Fourierist phalanstery by H. Fugère

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The whole point of Dawn of Everything is that no 1 thing predetermines how human society is organised or structured & we have a much greater degree of agency to create different ways of living/being - at least more than traditional social science (and grifters like Harare) would have us assume

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Great roundtable review on After Kant in @HDiplo - with contributions from M. C. Behrent, A. Jainchill & Eva Piirimäe & a reply by M. Sonenscher Sonenscher: “Events begin and end, but ideas have fuzzier or more porous boundaries.” issforum.org/roundtables/... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-50 on Sonenscher, After Kant

28 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-50 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Michael Behrent Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In my forthcoming but so far only half written book…!

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Cambridge methodology primer: “One of my aims in writing about the long debate over how to think about the concept of civil liberty was to ask whether those who eventually lost the battle may nevertheless have won the argument. To change the metaphor, I have been in quest of buried treasure.”

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New review of Michael Sonenscher’s Capitalism contains this absolute gem (That the review is by an economist makes the claim even more farcical) www.independent.org/tir/2025-sum...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Thoughtful and moving from Chelsea Wallis

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English) undpress.nd.edu/978026820325... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Alasdair MacIntyre

This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Didn’t quite expect this - but Richard Whatmore’s reply includes an usually candid discussion of Istvan Hont, post-colonial studies and neo-Marxist historiographies @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0191...

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The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Link to my talk next week at the Stanford Green library: "Before Durkheim: Early French Social Science and the Politics of Progress" events.stanford.edu/event/thomas... @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Appreciate this thoughtful review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @thomaslalevee.bsky.social. Appreciate being called a "generous and conscientious" scholar. pbs.twimg.com/media/Goxj5Z...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

My review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism is out in Global Intellectual History - with some thoughts at the end on what a more contextual approach might bring to our understanding of this political tradition doi.org/10.1080/2380... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @global-ih.bsky.social

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The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism

Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Nice to see Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare: Conditional Citizenship in Historical Perspective online and open access. @fia-c-s.bsky.social and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir are model academics who organised a generative workshop from which these papers emerged: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🗃️

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Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare

This open access book examines disenfranchisement in liberal democracies worldwide, before and after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage.

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Short extract from my recent review of Enlightenment Biopolitics #Frenchhistory

The strength of this study lies in its breadth, and the connections it makes between different eighteenth-century plans for human breeding, the exclusionary underpinnings of Enlightenment political thought, and the origins of modern biopolitics. This study thus offers a new way of thinking about the politics of life in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, as well as about the relationship between these politics and later developments, such as colonial violence and the Holocaust.

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Just published - my review of “Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens” by William Max Nelson doi.org/10.1080/1749...

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Enlightenment Biopolitics: a History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens

Published in Intellectual History Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“Simply put, I’m doing this because it’s the right thing to do. And if I do win, then we all win through having a representative in Parliament who actually has the integrity to stand against injustice, who represents the public and not the powerful.”

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/12/2024

Meet Rana, a 23-year-old in Gaza battling a rare illness and the horrors of genocide. She dreams of eating without pain, but Israel's genocidal campaign has left her and 26,000 others without access to life-saving treatment. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/figh...

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Fighting a rare illness while surviving genocide in Gaza

Rana Nabeel Baalousha is fighting a rare illness while also struggling to survive the genocide in Gaza. Her only hope of survival is a medical transfer out of Gaza, but Israel won’t allow it. Her stor...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

If you have any money to spare this Christmas, please consider donating to the many, many people in desperate need of help in Gaza. A self updating list of fundraising campaigns can be found here: gazafunds.com

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Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign

Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Folks, you need to read this essay #AcademicSky #skystorians. @rmesch.bsky.social, one of my fave writers (& past coauthor) writes about the TERRIBLE MENTOR she survived - & with great humanity calls for such power trips to END. It's 🔥💔💌 throughout. "What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors?"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This entire discourse feels like gaslighting. Yes antisemitism exists on the left and appears to have spiked since Oct 7. But anti-Arab and anti-Islamic prejudice ALSO EXIST and are major contributing factors to an ONGOING CAMPAIGN OF MASS MURDER. Why is 99% of media concern aimed at the former?

Misogyny and Antisemitism Are a Toxic Brew

“Zio bitch!” a young man in a kaffiyeh and Black Lives Matter T-shirt barked at one of us, his ire apparently provoked by a yellow ribbon pin, a symbol of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The exchange was unsettling but not surprising. Even in New York, where we both live, we have often seen an extraordinary lack of empathy for the Israeli victims of Oct. 7 and outright hostility toward those who advocate for them. The epithet “Zio bitch” highlights multilayered animosities, pointing to an insidious, specific prejudice we have seen bloom this year: the melding of misogyny and antisemitism.

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Grotesque analogy masquerading as intelligent commentary - in a review by none other than the esteemed & impartial Niall Ferguson www.the-tls.co.uk/history/war-...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A brilliant work on French revolutionary universalism & its legacies: “Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.” @drsepinwall.bsky.social

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

An incredible study in historical erasure & retrieval

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A great trove of interviews - Michael Foot, EP Thompson, Tony Benn, Isaac Kramnick, Sean Wilentz, Carolyn Forché, Benjamin Barber

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I will never understand Thanksgiving

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Reposting this in light of a mystifyingly ever growing stream of followers

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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I put together a new starter pack of people who do work on the history of socialism. Encompasses different aspects, tendencies, and eras, including recent years. Let me know if you have suggestions or would like to be added yourself.

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