Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
Listen: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Patricia Reed @patriciareed.bsky.social
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Alex Nunns @alexnunns.bsky.social Previously Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter and I also wrote this book: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/candidate-alex-nunns-2nd-edition
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: THE PARTY'S OVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THATCHER TO SUNAK | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social Public sociologist & socialist. Interested in elites, knowledge & communication. Author of 'The BBC: Myth of a Public Service'.
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social Strikes | Global Labour Studies | Class & State Theory | Conjunctural Analysis
Streiks | Globale Arbeitsstudien | Klassen- & Staatstheorie | Konjunkturanalyse Political Scientist @ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at BU, author of _Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love_ (Stanford UP, January 2025)
James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social
Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social Economist (mainly ecological macro, housing, rent theory).
Senior Research Associate at Oxford's ECI. Honorary Fellow at UCL's IIPP.
Proud to have helped set up the London Renters Union✊.
Co-author #LandForTheMany.
Emma Rees 🏴 @emmarees.bsky.social
Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social Historian, director for East Asia @quincyinst.bsky.social, cofounder Justice Is Global. Previously @gdp-center.bsky.social, University of Chicago. Writing on US–China relations and global capitalism.
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Tom Blackburn @tomblackburn.bsky.social You wouldn't even know the sun was up unless there was a press release on it
Tom Hancock @tomhancock.bsky.social China/economics etc, fmr Bloomberg/FT etc. still posting charts on LinkedIn
Lara Friedman @larafriedmandc.bsky.social President, Foundation for Middle East Peace | www.fmep.org
holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social energy & climate policy, writer, analyst
Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social Political Economist | Green Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social US-China, climate, politics, imperialism and world economy
Chicagoland | immigrant | he/him
Rosie Warren @proletaricat.bsky.social Worker-owner, Pilsen Community Books
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social Co-director @FutureEconScot.bsky.social Fellow UCL IIPP and the Democracy Collaborative. Co-author ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social Historian | Int'l history, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at U. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World" | Views my own.
Ines Schwerdtner @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social Parteivorsitzende Die Linke
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social Research Fellow, St Andrews
Faculty, Director of Research IUC Turin
Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy.
Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
Arun Kundnani @arunkundnani.bsky.social I write about race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. More at: kundnani.org
Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social Anthropologist, research fellow at University of Cambridge Pembroke College Cambridge & non-resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, writes about AI and war in Israel & Palestine
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social Interest formation between ecology and class,
University of Copenhagen, CommonEcologies
uni-jena.academia.edu/BueRübnerHansen
Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer
let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
Jane Hayward @drjanehayward.bsky.social Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Eleanor Penny @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social Writer
Host Verso Books Podcast, Novara FM
Agents Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander (books) + Georgia Kanner Independent Talent (film + tv)
Teaching writing at Goldsmiths, Poetry School, City Lit
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Carcinization Now ✨
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social Democratic socialist.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social Geographer. New book, HOUSE SOCIETY, forthcoming in Feb 2027 (with Allen Lane)
Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social Author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: ON MEN UNWITTINGLY TURNED DIVINE (Metropolitan/ Granta). Essays in the LRB, NYRB, TLS, The Nation & elsewhere. Senior editor at Bidoun.
www.annadellasubin.com
Nate George @ngeorge00.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. My views are my own, not my institution’s.
Narges Bajoghli @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social Writer. Scholar. Educator.
Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social staff writer @ The New Republic
Dan Hind @dannyhinduk.bsky.social
Arif Rafiq @arifrafiq.bsky.social
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
@kojokoram.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social
Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social Prof of Political Communication at THW-VUW in Wellington. Also, research on Media/Journalism, Elites, Economic Sociology and Policy/Financialization, currently looking at the Housing Crisis in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024).
Marx Freud Karaoke
Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social cientista cansada
climate science + political strategy. for internationalist and just transitions.
Writer, Political Economist & Sociology PhD.
🟣 ecocene.blog
🟤 sabrinafernandes.com
🟢 gaiacenic.com
Posts mostly in EN or PT
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.com
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️
Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein.
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social
Kelly Truelove @truesciphi.org Technologist | Erstwhile computational physicist | Projects at TrueSciPhi.org: Explorations in computational philosophy via AI dialogues • Curated science & philosophy podcast collections
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Molly Ball @mollyesque.bsky.social Senior political correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social Philosopher and Director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics at Fairfield University | Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, Phil of Law, Phil Mind, Applied Ethics, Social-Political, Neurolaw, etc.
𝙰𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚋𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚑 @abizadeh.bsky.social Political philosophy prof at McGill
https://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash
Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Noah Feldman @noahfeldman.bsky.social Felix Frankfurter Professor, Chair of Society of Fellows @Harvard, Columnist @opinion.bsky.social
Ethics of Power
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social Official account of the JHI Blog. Zac Endter, Tomi Onabanjo, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa.
Listen to In Theory: http://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog
JHIBlog.org
Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social I write about politics, culture, & science.
Philosophy Bites @philosophybites.bsky.social Philosophy Bites podcast - co-hosted by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton