Shai Agmon
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Political Philosophy | UCL Philosophy & EISPS | Academic Director @molad-institute.bsky.social | bylines @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Shai Agmon📚 Out with OUP this summer: "Experts in a Turbulent World" 📚 An edited volume that connects historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of experts in international organisations. 1/3 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Shai AgmonMy wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
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- Reposted by Shai AgmonAustralian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
- Reposted by Shai AgmonWho protests against democratic backsliding? A new working paper with Margalit, Sheffer and Yakir examines this issue and finds that people’s conceptions of what democracy means play a crucial role in predicting whether they engage in active opposition to backsliding efforts. osf.io/preprints/so...
- The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >> www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...
- Reposted by Shai AgmonPls 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
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- Reposted by Shai Agmon‘What passes for post-liberalism today is either pernicious or impotent.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Shai AgmonUpdate: free copy available within the next 14 days, CUP tells me! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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- Reposted by Shai AgmonMisinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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- Reposted by Shai AgmonOfficially published today! Link in Alt Text. (Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)
- This is a brilliant and important paper that deserves wide attention — relevant for political theorists, political scientists, and civil–military scholars alike. It tackles one of the most neglected questions in the study of democratic backsliding: its relationship with the military.
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- Just spoke to @euronews.com about the Trump deal to end the Gaza war. Here are the main points I made 🧵: 1. Trump should have formally brought in the Palestinian Authority as part of both the negotiations and the implementation. >>>
- 2. Still, the remarkable fact is this: a far-right US President and the Israeli PM of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history now endorse a two-state solution (point 19 of the plan) and put an end to annexation fantasies. >>>
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- Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup. @ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.
- The colloquium is hosted by the Institute for Law, Politics & Philosophy: an interdisciplinary space linking three UCL departments. The idea is simple: bring serious people together to test serious work in progress on big legal and political questions.
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- Reposted by Shai AgmonThere’s a new #philosophy feed in town! 📣 #PhilosophySky combines the best philosophical discussion via the #PhilSky and area-specific hashtags with announcements from 250+ philosophy-related accounts making it the most comprehensive feed for academic philosophy on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/did:...
- This is a brilliant paper. A highly recommended reading it for everyone who is interested in political change, political imagination, and discussions on feasibility.
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- First day at school…
- Reposted by Shai AgmonDear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...
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- Reposted by Shai AgmonIt was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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- Reposted by Shai Agmonmy latest with @newrepublic.com liberalism isn't the 'referee of politics'. it's a player, & it must win newrepublic.com/article/1992...
- Reposted by Shai AgmonJust to say the obvious: The far-right discourse about architecture and “beauty” is not about public investment in infrastructure…it is about purity and order.
- Reposted by Shai AgmonJosh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
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- The full event is now online on YouTube. I really recommend watching, we had the pleasure of hosting some truly brilliant speakers and talks. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @jowolff.bsky.social
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