Sam Mace
An avid reader and sometime writer. Schmitt and the Middle East book due out in 2025.
Link to my substack :) theorymatters.substack.com
- Reposted by Sam MaceA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- My latest which you can listen to the entirety of for less than £1!
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... My latest with @mattsleat.bsky.social on Post-Liberalism. We had a fascinating discussion on the ideology of Post-Liberalism, its intellectual divisions, and its practical differences in the US and UK.
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... My latest with @mattsleat.bsky.social on Post-Liberalism. We had a fascinating discussion on the ideology of Post-Liberalism, its intellectual divisions, and its practical differences in the US and UK.
- Reposted by Sam MaceIf you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... "Intellectual provision should be made available for everyone, and in the age of the internet and giant campuses, there is more than enough provision to go around." my case for a genuinely transformative education system
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... My latest where I question the collapse of conservatism and challenge @OliDugmore claims about tuition fees
- Reposted by Sam Macefriend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
- Reposted by Sam MaceAn extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... My latest where I question if, like all revolutions, the Iranian revolution has eventually ran out of steam
- my paper on Carl Schmitt and the MAGA movement just got accepted for the ECPR conference at Innsbruck in April! #happy
- theorymatters.substack.com/p/shadi-hami... My latest where I discuss with Shadi Hamid his latest book, The Case for American Power. I challenge his notions of hypocrisy, Oikophobia, and personal struggle with where America has landed
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... "Trump’s attempt to resuscitate the Monroe Doctrine should be viewed as America’s Jurassic World moment. The attempt to revive something that has long been dormant in a world which no longer matches the story being told."
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- My latest where I ask do we really want to examine things?
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... "unlike Conservatism, liberalism does not look backwards for the future. Instead, liberals tend to examine the past, akin to political archaeologists seeking to understand the problems to guide the future."
- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... "unlike Conservatism, liberalism does not look backwards for the future. Instead, liberals tend to examine the past, akin to political archaeologists seeking to understand the problems to guide the future."
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- 2025 has by all accounts been a pretty awful year for me. But, I hope, next year can and will be better.
- are there any Schmitt and/or MENA scholars happy to read over a paper draft?
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- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... "People don’t simply want to be economically comfortable; they also want to be seen and recognised as important in their own right." my latest on Jacob Savage's latest piece
- @bsky.app I cannot access my feed as it says there are not enough resources. Help please?
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- open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... "Even the worst person is able to convince themselves that they are acting out of necessity or duty or honour, when they have committed the worst possible acts."
- good stuff. Need to remember the distinction between the dictator and the tyrant perhaps though
- Ignoring this problem is not doing anyone any good either. We need to recognise that elite overproduction has led to a lot of people feeling rejected, neglected, and lost in a world which tells them success matters above all else.
- I think there is also a deeper question around the collapse of the job market in comparison to potential applicants. This is a very real problem
- any ideas for what people want to read on my next substack... I'm fooling around with a few potentials but would love to get people's thoughts
- If anyone has any work opportunities please do DM me asap! Running low on funds now so please do get in touch asap! Applied for so many jobs and been rejected for everything :(
- " The biggest problem is the disinformation propagated by the “authoritative” sources out there, e.g., the millions killed by the “safe & effective” covid jabs." This comment is what I am fighting against! theorymatters.substack.com/p/losing-our...
- Reposted by Sam MaceA quick reminder of the Trust's current open funding rounds and schemes opening in January! Read more and apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/schemes-at-a...
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- my fear over dave smith and joe rogan is now serious for the potential damage they are doing to the world.
- theorymatters.substack.com/p/losing-our... This is not simply a small online subculture hiding in their basements. Joe Rogan has around 14.5 million viewers, Tucker Carlson has 16.5 million followers on X, and Dave Smith has almost 1 million followers. All three have had fascists on their shows.
- I spent 20 hours of my life listening to Dave Smith on various podcasts as well as his own. What I found was a terrifying combo of conspiracy theory, racism, and populist nonsense.
- theorymatters.substack.com/p/losing-our... "Rod Dreher, an advisor to JD Vance, went viral for writing a post describing the toxic, racist, and democratically destructive elements of the far right encroaching on the traditional centre-right Republican territory. "
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- what is the intersection between being a mega shagger with dubious ethics and a knowledge of politics which makes you worth listening to? This is the kind of publicity-seeking, unserious nonsense which has to stop
- theorymatters.substack.com/p/losing-our... This is not simply a small online subculture hiding in their basements. Joe Rogan has around 14.5 million viewers, Tucker Carlson has 16.5 million followers on X, and Dave Smith has almost 1 million followers. All three have had fascists on their shows.
- theorymatters.substack.com/p/losing-our... "Rogan promotes fringe views on health, politics, and history, distorting the factual realm beyond recognition."
- theorymatters.substack.com/p/losing-our... "Rod Dreher, an advisor to JD Vance, went viral for writing a post describing the toxic, racist, and democratically destructive elements of the far right encroaching on the traditional centre-right Republican territory. "
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- reading Hunger by Knut Hamsun was a revelatory experience
