Matt Sleat

The Gorton and Denton election is basically this

Matt Sleat (ENG) | JD Vance, Authoritarianism and Women's Suffrage YouTube video by Vorpolitisch

Talking to @mattsleat.bsky.social author of "Post-Liberalism" about JD Vance, authoritarians and women's suffrage.

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Getting the old team back together. Pleased to say that I have joined @enzoreds.bsky.social once more as co-editor of European Journal of Political Theory. Looking forward to seeing what people are working on these days (having been slightly removed from the theory world for a couple of years).

Less than a week until US publication day (17th).

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Very grateful for the mention of mine and @pjthinker.bsky.social's book on post-liberalism in The Spectator. I have no dog in the fight, but politics of the British and American post-liberals are more different than acknowledged here (as I explain in my book).

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Just a reminder the excellent @thetablet.bsky.social piece on Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism is out today…👆👆👆

Common good? In 2024, with the US presidential election looming, J. D. Vance described himself as “of the post-liberal right”. Here in the UK, the “Blue Labour” faction led by Maurice Glasman has increasingly been...

Review of 'Post-Liberalism' in @thetls.bsky.social.

'Yet as Sleat shows – in devastating fashion, enhanced by how calmly it is delivered – both sides of [post-liberalism's] bizarre political coin are intellectually hopeless'.

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The dark night of liberalism - The Tablet Be careful what you wish for. A generation ago, it seemed unlikely that academic theology could ever have much influence on politics. Then one form of

Really grateful to Theo Hobson and The Tablet for engaging with 'Post-Liberalism' and @pjthinker.bsky.social 'Against Post-Liberalism' in their cover story this week. Very thoughtful and reflective piece.

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Another welcome review of Kelly Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism in @irishtimes.com on Sunday. @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

US publication day today @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

I can’t remember where I’d written this (probably my book Liberal Realism) but someone kindly shared this passage 10 years ago today. And it’s interesting to look back on it and reflect how I’m now working on whether liberalism has a realistic yet more positive story it can tell.

Reposting this as US publication date is tomorrow @politybooks.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is increasingly important to understand Postliberalism given its place in US and UK politics but it’s also important to understand how it might be challenged…

Post-Liberalism to be published in North America in less than a month. Will be very interesting to see what Americans make of it!

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🔊Podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" Paul Kelly on why "family, faith and flag" is a dead end for the left

🔊242.news podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" - interview with @pjthinker.bsky.social (@politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social) on the "dead end" of post-liberalism.

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I can vouch for the Weil one

My contender for the title …

Just published (open access) in The Review of Politics:

Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'

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Being Cosmopolitan: A Political Approach Buy Being Cosmopolitan: A Political Approach by Ulaş, Luke (ISBN: 9780198915263) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Thanks, Paul. Luke Ulas also published Being Cosmopolitan this year (keeping up the strong LSE connection at Sheffield). So indeed a good year for us theorists!

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🔊Podcast: "You capture political power and you use that to change society" Matt Sleat on the new right, JD Vance and the post-liberal "moment"

Great to discuss my new book and our post-liberal moment with Tim Gwynn Jones.

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You wait for some wins then two come along at once. Today Post-Liberalism is published - and my promotion to Professor has been officially confirmed. A rather wonderful way to end the year.

Thanks for the interest in the book. If you can send me your mail details I’ll ask Polity to send you one.

Thanks, Paul. They do indeed complement each other wonderfully (and somewhat fortuitously so!). I’m looking forward to actually seeing a physical copy hopefully sometime later today.

Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.

"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'"

Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
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Bogged down in intellectual foppery | Tom Jones | The Critic Magazine You know that something is really having an impact the moment people start writing books to criticise it.

Review of @pjthinker.bsky.social and my own books on post-liberalism in The Critic. Though I'm quite in favour of foppery, just not of the post-liberal kind.

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Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.

Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...

Thanks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social for his engaged and thoughtful review of both my own and @pjthinker.bsky.social new books on post-liberalism.

Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize European Consortium for Political Research

Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

There are two distinct but related stories behind the book. The first began with the rise of Blue Labour and its search for a new political economy following the Brown Gov defeat in 2010. What started as a left discourse with Cruddas, Rutherford, Pabst and Glasman, quickly turned right under Glasman

Marking one month since publication Watch out for some podcast appearances and reviews. Some growing interest amongst journalist - see Ross Douthat in @nytimes.com Also @mattsleat.bsky.social book coming shortly @politybooks.bsky.social (it’s good and it’s different so get both!!!)

While the US right is having a meltdown on the other place as to what post-liberalism is — or whether it’s even a thing — a quick reminder that my book on exactly that topic is out in the UK in less than a month (and in the US this February). Spoiler: it is a thing.

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