writing a book about Davos; reps RCW (UK), MMQ&A (USA); David McClure Visiting Fellow @lsehistory; editorial committee @newleftreview; PhD @CambridgeHPS
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I'll give a public lecture on the history of Davos on 3rd Dec, as part of the David McClure Fellowship @lsehistory -- for anyone interested in attending, you can register here: lse.ac.uk/international-hist… – at Radicondoli, Toscana
a pleasure to discuss Stuart Hall, 'English ideology' and the history of the British New Left with Nick Beech, @BizK1 & Jeremy Gilbert; links to the episodes (and full series) below – at Zurich, Switzerland
On Wednesdays, I’m hosting a ten-part radio series on English Culture through the mind of Professor Stuart Hall @ResonanceFM
Features never-before-heard recordings from lectures delivered in the mid-1980s - the height of Thatcherism.
11am-midday (BST)
resonancefm.com
series: resonancefm.com/programmes/6…
ep. 5: mixcloud.com/Resonance/engli…
ep. 10: mixcloud.com/Resonance/engli… – at Zurich, Switzerland
'He liked to tell journalists he was brought up in a house with 15 servants, then add that his parents were two of them.'
-- ft.com/content/32e4c2d6-9afe… – at London, England
'The monetary order cannot be re-made peacefully. The escalation already underway—reserve seizures, payments exclusion, technology embargos, militarized logistics and proxy wars—is not a temporary disturbance but the early phase of a deeper conflict.'
newleftreview.org/issues/ii1… – at London, England
delighted to be joining @lsehistory as the inaugural David McClure Visiting Fellow from September
We extend a warm welcome to Dr Caitlín Doherty @caitdoherty who is joining us for the 2026-27 academic year as the inaugural David McClure Visiting Fellow.
Read more about Caitlín and the fellowship here: lse.ac.uk/International-Hist…
#fellow #staff #academic #book #history #lse
Cait Doherty retweeted
I have a piece out in @phenomenalworld which charts the history of anti-imperialism in South Lebanon and assesses the prospects of a US-brokered postwar settlement between Israel and Lebanon
phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
Cait Doherty retweeted
“I wanted to see whether globalization was dying, dead, or might yet recover from the blow delivered to it by a concatenation of historical events.”
@caitdoherty wrote last year about the World Economic Forum and Davos.
harpers.org/archive/2025/02/…
on Mary Gaitskill, for this week’s @NewLeftReview Sidecar
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
Cait Doherty retweeted
Once central to Irish life, turf is falling out of favor as a fuel source. In our new issue, @caitdoherty considers how peat figures into Ireland’s rural past and green future.
thebaffler.com/salvos/bog-tr…
for the latest issue of @thebaffler, I reviewed the new book from @PBresnihan & @patbrodie337, and reported on fuel politics in Ireland
Once central to Irish life, turf is falling out of favor as a fuel source. In our new issue, @caitdoherty considers how peat figures into Ireland’s rural past and green future.
thebaffler.com/salvos/bog-tr…
Cait Doherty retweeted
Wrote about the reopening of the Lumumba-dossier for @NewLeftReview
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
now online: my response to Helen Andrews’s essay ‘The Great Feminization’ (@compactmag)
The feminisation mystique: who ruined the West?
If we must blame something, blame capitalism
@caitdoherty
newstatesman.com/politics/fe…
I'm in this week's @NewStatesman, responding to the 'Great Feminisation' thesis:
newstatesman.com/politics/fe…
Cait Doherty retweeted
'He dissimulated even when the truth would have served him. Disclosure invited scrutiny; scrutiny invited limits; limits imperilled the office.'
Grey Anderson on Dick Cheney (1941–2025):
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
Cait Doherty retweeted
Martin Barnay on the Sarkozy trial:
‘Beyond a tale of Sarkozy's venal appetites, this episode opens a window onto how French political life has operated for half a century.’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
'One might object that the story did not start on 7 October, and that is absolutely right: for the past century, extreme and disproportionate Israeli violence against Palestinians has been one of the striking features of the historical record.'
Raymond Geuss on Israel:
‘Making peace can be very difficult, especially when one side insists on assassinating or imprisoning the adversary’s potential negotiators…’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
on Ari Aster’s Eddington, for @NewStatesman
newstatesman.com/culture/fil…
