Recent News and Publications
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Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom
In an article published in the German edition of Jacobin, Robin Celikates and I argue that academic boycotts are legitimate tactics and practices of political protest. Against the claim that such boycotts—and especially the boycott of Israeli academic institutions—violate academic freedom, we contend that there are, on the contrary, strong academic-freedom-based reasons to support a…
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What Is an Imaginary?
My most recent article “What Is an Imaginary?” is out in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry. Here is the abstract: Over the last few decades, the neologisms social imaginary and political imaginary have become ubiquitous in the jargon of the humanities and the theoretical social sciences. And yet, despite the pervasive use, there is…
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Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy
The forthcoming issue of Polity includes a “Classics Revisited” symposium on Adam Przeworski’s Capitalism and Social Democracy (1986), edited by Robyn Marasco. My contribution, “Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy” is now online and available ahead of print. There are 50 free downloads available with this link. The other contributors to the symposium are Natasha Piano, Dylan Riley,…
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Social Imaginaries and Ideology Critique
A series of articles from my current research project on the concept of the social imaginary are due to be published this year. The first of the lot, “Are Social Imaginaries Immune to Ideology Critique?” is out with Constellations, and it’s available here.
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Rethinking Political Thinkers
A new textbook—Rethinking Political Thinkers—was just published by Oxford University Press, and I wrote the chapter on Machiavelli. The book is edited by by Manjeet Ramgotra and Simon Choat. It seeks to provide readers with a broader perspective on the history of political thought; and it situates political theorists in the contexts of several axes…
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A Government of Creditors
I have a forthcoming article in the next issue of Polity: “A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy.” In this piece, I address a problem in Machiavelli’s political theory, namely the relation between credit, finance, and political power. There are few places in Machiavelli’s work where…