Steven Klein

Wtf

Arthur Ghins, The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy - Cambridge University Press, January 2026
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now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
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Probably the only actually consistent Marxist theorist was Kautsky

A lot of Marxist thought is "here are the iron laws of historical development and also the long set of reasons they don't apply in my particular case."

Not the first time US unis have completely caved on academic freedom and basic self governance

Michael Manley on how the capitalist workplace inherently produces status inequality and undermines relationships of equality

The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states Energy systems can shape political institutions and make some nations more vulnerable to trade wars than others

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com.

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The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

breaking: baby born in warzone sick from birth

Philosophy is truly the most cringe embarrassing discipline (daily nous content)

Cool student initiated project as part of UNESCO'S futures literacy mission

The KU administration has informed us that the Board of Regents, in compliance with a directive from the Kansas state legislature, now prohibits the use of pronouns in email signatures.

Henceforth, my email signature will include the following language:

Great write-up of the first London PPE conference hosted at DPE. A huge success and hopefully a regular event!

We're heartbroken at the news of Christian Joerges passing away. Kind, generous, and irrepressibly curious about people and their ideas, his life and work taught so many of us what makes academia worthwhile. Much love and strength to Michelle and the family. Mehr Licht!

So grateful Agustín and I had the privilege of still doing this with Christian- an intellectual biography of sorts in the form of an interview. May he roam the skies forever in a vintage red fiat 500 with a half-shaven face and that twinkle in his eye. Much love.

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Book panel on Rob Jubb's excellent Unjust Authority

Also a lesson about the destructive dynamics when the labour right decides to pick a fight with their core supporters

This is a truly wonderful book that tells us so much about our current mess. How media narratives, gender, race, and the shift to services all sent UK labour movement into a crisis

London PPE, hosted by DPE, is a go. Great panels so far.

It's a 90s MIJ Jerry Donahue signature, which are known for their great necks. And it does have a great deep v carve. At some point someone swapped in new electronics - lollar in the neck and dingwall in the bridge, both I think modelled on 52 blackguard style pickups

Suhr's are quality guitars

New bud

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Compulsory voting can save British democracy Our political crisis is grave. Muscular measures can solve it.

I’m in the @newstatesman.com making the case for compulsory voting as a response to Peter Mair’s “void”

S2. Ep 3: Tonight’s the Night, Comrades Things Fell Apart · Episode

This is an incredible story.

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Yeah, and I guess the story either way is that the leadership has to moderate its plans to appease the backbenchers, which introduces new challenges for their fiscal rules. It just seems frustrating that they didn't use that challenge to do something productive

It just seems like if you are in a tight fiscal environment, it is good to do popular things alongside the unpopular things

They probably would have ended up with similar savings as is currently the case, and the two-child benefit limit is an appalling policy that they should make a priority of eliminating.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why didn't Labour combine the welfare cuts with easing or eliminating the two-child benefit cap? They could have framed it as focusing disability benefits on the most disabled and fighting child poverty.