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Articles

'It has been a year since I felt joy', The Guardian

Will the rioters attack my carers? Unherd

Principles of motion, Economics Observatory

Of our great propensity to the absurd and marvellous, Philosopher’s Magazine

Fight things that really matter, The Critic

Adam Smith on Donald Trump, Past Meets Present 

Sovereignty, opinion, and Brexit, Past Meets Present

Tainted by association, AEON 

On going on and on and on, AEON

The real Adam Smith, AEON

Rules of ascent, AEON

The last hollow laugh, AEON

Rights and the left, The Guardian

Labour's devalued degrees, The Guardian

Only wealthy graduates need apply, The Guardian

Academic Review Essays

Perils of Party

Max Skjönsberg, The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain (download

From Cicero to the Science of Man

Tim Stuart-Buttle, From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity From Locke to Hume (download)

Back to Basics

Jeremy Waldron, One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality and Andrea Sangiovanni, Humanity Without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights (download)

Burke Unboxed

David Bromwich, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence and Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (download)

Academic Book Reviews

David Lay Williams, The Greatest of all Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (download)

Darrin M. McMahon, Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (download)

Stefan Eich, The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (download)

Richard Whatmore, Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Times of Revolution (download)

Arash Abizadeh, Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics (download)

Christopher J. Berry, Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; Shinji Nohara, Commerce and Strangers in Adam Smith; Hye-Joon Yoon, The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (download)

Alison Mcqueen, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times, in Political Theory (download)

Duncan Bell, Reordering The World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (download)

Jacqueline A. Taylor, Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume’s Philosophy (download)

Anna Plassart, The French Revolution in the Scottish Enlightenment, in Global Intellectual History (download)

Uwe Steinhof (ed.) Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? On ‘Basic Equality’ and Equal Respect and Concern (download)

Richard Whatmore, Against War and Empire: Britain, Geneva and France in the Eighteenth Century, in Political Theory (download)

Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang (eds.) Luck, Value and Commitment: Themes From the Ethics of Bernard Williams (download)

David Runciman, Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell (download)

John P. Wright, Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature: An Introduction (download)

General Book Reviews

Nikhil Krishnan, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Oxford Philosophy 1900-1960 (link)

Paul Tucker, Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order (link)

Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (link)

Olivier Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy (link)

Anne Phillips, Unconditional Equals (download)

Judith Shklar, On Political Obligation (download)

Bernardo Zacka, When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency (download)

Tommy Caldwell, The Push: A Climber’s Story of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (link)

William Davies, The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (download)

Christopher Achens and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists, and Philip Cowley and Robert Ford, More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box (download)

Jeremy Waldron, Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions (download)

Richard Tuck, The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy (link)

Shalini Satkunanandan, Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus (link)

Tony Judt, When the Facts Change (download)

Samuel Scheffler, Death and the Afterlife (download)

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (download)

 Raymond Geuss, A World Without Why (download)

 Bernard Williams, Essays and Reviews 1959-2002 (download)

Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech (download)

Tim Mulgan, Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe (download)

Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life (download)

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