SOCIETY journal - papers & book reviews
In 2021 I became managing editor and book review editor of the academic journal, Society. Founded in 1962, Society enjoys a reputation as a journal that publishes the accessible scholarship on some of the central questions confronting society. It produces six issues a year offering new ideas and quality research in the social sciences and humanities in a clear, readable style. The journal sees itself as occupying the vital centre in intellectual and social commentary. Below is a selection of articles and book reviews published in Society since 2021, all of which can be accessed by clicking on the relevant hyperlink:
Click here to view Julian Young on Christopher Janaway’s Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (2024)
Click here to view ‘Can Terrorism Ever Be Morally Justified?’ by Quasslim Casasm (2024)
Click here to view Samuel Guttenplan on Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff (2024)
Click here to view David Roochnik on Socrates’ Critique of Writing in the Phaedrus (2024)
Click here to view Andrew Gamble and here to view Robert Singh and here for Lord John Aldedice on Rory Stewart’s Politics on the Edge (2023)
Click here to view Patricia Thane on Chris Mullin’s Didn’t you use to be Chris Mullin: Diaries 2010-2022 (2023)
Click here to view Michael Laver on Steven Levitsky and Michael Ziblatt’s Tyranny of the Minority (2023)
Click here to view Quassim Cassam on Philip Kitcher’s What’s the Use of Philosophy? (2023)
Click here to view Richard Kraut on John Sellars’s Aristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher (2023)
Click here to view Graham McCann on Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Life (2023)
Click here to view Robert Gildea on Julian Jackson’s France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain (2023)
Click here to view Diane Coyle on Avner Offer, Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments and Time Horizons (2023)
Click here to view Stephen Mulhall on M. W. Rowe, J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer (2023)
Click here to view Patricia Thane on Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 (2023)
Click here to view Julian Young on John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Libearlism (2023)
Click here to review John Dunn on Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (2023)
Click here to view Robert Singh on Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals (2023)
Click here to view Graham McCann on Jason Brennan’s Democracy: A Guided Tour (2023)
Click here to view Malcolm Schofield on Robin Waterfield’s Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (2023)
Click here to view Richard Whatmore on Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–49 (2023)
Click here to view Simon Blackburn on David Edmonds’s Parfit: A Philosopher with a Mission to Save Morality (2023)
Click here to view Patricia Thane on Ian Dunt’s How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn’t (2023)
Click here to view Robert Singh on Robert Kaplan’s The Tragic Mind (2023)
Click here to view Marie McGinn on Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (2022)
Click here to view Samuel Guttenplan on David Chalmers’ Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2023)
Click here to view Roger Backhouse on Jacob Soll’s Free Market: The History of an Idea (2022)
Click here to view William Hitchcock’s review of Frank Costigliolia’s Kennan: A Life Between Worlds (2023)
Click here to view “Conspiracy Theories” by Quassim Cassam (2023)
Click here to view Avner Offer’s review of J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (2023)
Click here to view Robert Singh’s review of Robert J. Lieber, Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World (2023)
Click here to view Paul Seabright’s review of Thomas Picketty’s A Brief History of Inequality (2023)
Click here to view Kevin Power on Mark McGurl’s Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon (2023)
Click here to view Steven Smith on two books on the thought of Leo Strauss (2023)
Click here to view Graham McCann on Marina Hyde’s What Just Happened and Anon’s The Secret Diary of a Tory MP (2023)
Click here to view Bernard Yack’s review of Stephen Holmes (et al) eds. Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism
Click here to view “Party Politics vs. Grievance Politics: Competing Modes of Representative Democracy” by Matthew Flinders and Markus Hinterleitner
Click here to view Patricia Thane on Joanna Bourke’s Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning (2022)
Click here to view “Community Building and Exclusion: The Role of Food in University Hostels in New Delhi” by Rituparna Patgiri
Click here to view John Sweeney on Bill McGuire’s Hothouse Earth (2022)
Click here to view Michael Laver on Bernard Crick’s In Defence of Politics (1962)
Click here to view Emer Nolan on Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries (2022)
Click here to view “Hong Kong Universities” by Peter Baehr (2022)
Click here to view “Censorship in the Soviet Union” by Viktor Zaslavsky (2022)
Click here for Neil Robinson on Vladislav Zubok’s Collapse (2022)
Click here to view “The View from Below: How the Neoliberal Academy Is Shaping Contemporary Political Theory” by Maeve McKeown (2022)
Click here to view Julian Young on Michael Rosen’s The Shadow of God (2022)
Click here to view Kathryn Lynch on Holly Lawford-Smith’s Gender-Critical Feminism (2022)
Click here to view Jane O’Grady on Lionel Trilling’s Sincerity and Authenticity (1972)
Click here to view Marie McGinn on Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals (2022) and Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, The Women Are Up To Something (2021)
Click here to view Sir Partha Dasgupta on Amartya Sen’s Home in the World: A Memoir (2022)
Click here to view “Face cultures and conspicuous consumption. Tea Drinkers in China” by Y. Wang and RG Tuang (2022)
Click here to Elizabeth Frazer on Marc Stear’s Out of the Ordinary (2021)
Click here to view Roger Backhouse on Robert Skidelsky’s Money and Government (2019)
Click here to view Paul Broks on Irvin Yalom and Marilyn Yalom A Matter of Life and Death (2021)
Click here to view “Looking into Dragons: From Basque Violence to Drone Warfare An Interview with Cultural Anthropologist Joseba Zulaika” (2021)
Click here to view Neil McLaughlin on Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order (2021)
Click here to view Mark Maslin on Bill Gates’s How To Avoid Climate Disaster (2021)
Click here to view Huw Price on Cheryl Misak’s Frank Ramsey (2020)
Click here to view William Cain on Robert Putnam’s The Upswing (2020)
Click here to view Simon Blackburn on Quassim Cassam’s Conspiracy Theories (2019)
Click here to view Patricia Thane on John Bew’s Citizen Clem (2016)
Click here to view Matthew Flinders on Barack Obama’s A Promised Land (2020)
Click here to view Susanne MacGregor on Johann Hari’s Chasing The Scream (2019)
Click here to view David Broome on Greta Thunberg’s No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference (2019 ed.)
The ‘history’ of political thought? is a recording of a paper I delivered at the Philosophy Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin in February 2019). The text of my paper is available the in the Unpublished Writings page of this website.