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Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

‘Policies built on myths are hard to revise. The repeated accusation that Hamas had systematically diverted aid is unfounded, according to many agencies with experience in Gaza.’

Amjad Iraqi on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

‘Far-right politicians in Israel, many of them in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, have made no secret of that fact that they hope starvation will encourage the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from the territory.’

Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

زياد رحباني / ماتفل / البوم هدوء نسبي Listen to زياد رحباني / ماتفل / البوم هدوء نسبي by Ahmed Gado ✪ #np on #SoundCloud

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Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...

‘The response to this genocide shouldn’t be to allow more food into Gaza so that Palestinians can be saved from starving but killed by Israeli bombing. Rather, it should be to undo the system of control and killing.’

Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...

‘“What can be done?” the European diplomat might ask me today.

For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’

Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

On the contingency of history - writing in LA Review of Books.

Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.

"We are dying before the ears and eyes of the whole world. The whole world is watching the Gaza Strip. If people aren't killed by the Israeli army, they die trying to get aid."

Amir Ahmadi Arian | From under the Dining Table I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me a...

‘I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. At one point he told me: “Everyone says great writers know what to write and how to write. But everybody can figure that out. What matters is knowing where to write from.”’

New from Amir Ahmadi Arian:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Do citizens have the capabilities required for democracy? The standard story is that empirical research debunks normative democratic theory. With @ethanvporter.bsky.social, we argue for a better framework and show empirical research supports citizen capacities. Forthcoming in @bjpols.bsky.social

Joanna Biggs · Beneath the White Scarf: On Marguerite Yourcenar Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned. But...

‘We see Yourcenar now encrusted by the times she lived in, as well as by the disappointment of feminists who wanted another sort of heroine.’

Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We are hiring three education pathway lecturers/assistant professors for the fall - one in comparative politics, one in politics and research methods, and one in economics. Happy to answer questions about the department!

Ahdaf Soueif | Day 250 In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to...

‘Laila had given ten years of her life to fighting for her son, and now, in what she decided would be the final act of the fight, she put her life on the line.’

NEW on the blog: Ahdaf Soueif on her sister Laila’s struggle for the release of her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

My phone is suddenly buzzing with Eid well-wishes and news about evacuation orders in Beirut, all at once. An unsettling jumble of hope and despair.

Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible ‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

I have an essay out in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social
about the south of Lebanon.

Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.

1) Very pleased with this new piece co-authored with @arturochang.bsky.social in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. In one respect, it's an exercise in the academic esoteric: an essay on a single footnote in Rousseau's Social Contract. But in another respect . . .
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds Abstract. Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as

Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797

The genealogy of Trumpism A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

Our academic, @stevenklein.bsky.social has joined the journal Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy as a contributing editor 📝

In the latest issue, Dr Klein interviews American writer John Ganz on 'the genealogy of Trumpism'.

You can find it here 👇

renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

"Gaza is starvation under siege ... In almost every other famine on record, communicable diseases are the big killers. Gaza is an anomaly, a laboratory in which we will discover how much nutritional stress a population can withstand before succumbing en masse."

Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...

‘Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times after warnings from the IPC – but the recovery has been momentary before another plunge.‘

Alex de Waal on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

I am thrilled to have a chapter ("The Family-State Analogy in the Mengzi") in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy edited by Justin Tiwald. I am particularly proud that an Arabic name has made it into the list of authors of such a volume on China.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Bernard Williams and the Relativism of Distance: A Defence Click on the article title to read more.

Paul Sagar defends Bernard Williams’s account of the relativism of distance – just published in the European Journal of Philosophy: doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory Cambridge Core - Political Theory - The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

The most comprehensive volume about constitutional theory ever published, one basically every topic (including my small take on corporatist and social democratic constitutionalism)

www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Quentin Skinner's two concepts of liberty Published in Intellectual History Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Robin Douglass reviews Quentin Skinner’s latest book for IHR: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VZAW4...

Israel has just sent an evacuation warning for an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs after two rockets were fired from south Lebanon this morning (one intercepted & landed on Lebanese territory).

Lecturer in Political Theory at King's College London Apply for the Lecturer in Political Theory role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

We’re hiring a fixed-term Lecture in Political Theory, with a focus on contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and critical theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK462/l...

Empire and Emancipation Panel The London Political Theory Network will host scholars to explore themes of colonialism, imperial legacy, and anticolonial resistance.

The London Political Theory Network is organizing a panel on “Empire and Emancipation” on April 4, 3-5pm, at Senate House, involving Paul Apostolidis, Arturo Chang, Ulas Ince, Kimberly Hutchings, and Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí. For more details and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...

Deadline tomorrow: applications for the Melvin Richter Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the history of political thought.

Socialism is not Liberal Moralism on Steroids Socialists don’t need to appeal to morality and justice. Unlike liberals and conservatives, they can point out how the world works, and how our political imagination is constrained as a result.

In which I rant about how the Left better keep away from zombie Rawlsianism & other assorted moralisms damagemag.com/2025/02/25/s...